Author: terri
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November 2015 yarn subscription preview
There’s a new small yarn subscription service in town! Jimmy Beans Wool has a new subscription service they call “Beanie Bags” which is fairly similar to my existing Yarn of the Month Club subscription. Here’s the yarn portion of both of them for November: I’m excited about my mail, so you get a preview today…
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Camp Erin Teddy Bear Cardigan Variation
I’m not big on charity knitting because often it’s much more sensible to donate money that can be used to support more tangible aid (witness the story of the penguin sweaters). But Knitting Bee, one of my local yarn shops (there are so many in the Portland area!) was doing a drive for teddy bear…
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Yarn of the Month club review, July 2015
The amazing cashmere yarn is enough to make this YOTM sample selection for me, and the other yarn isn’t bad it’s just hard for it to shine in comparison. I do wish this month’s mailing had come with better swatch suggestions, though!
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OSB 2015 – Internet of Things Militia: Paramilitary Training for your IoT devices (Video & Slides)
Security folk generally talk about how the Internet of Things is bad for security, but it also brings new sensors and connected devices that could co-operate in new and interesting ways. Could we use internet things to enhance security?
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Homemade Heartbleed pillow
There’s a tradition at work of decorating people’s cubes when they’re on sabbatical, and while I wasn’t the one who came up with the idea to decorate our fearless leader’s cube with things representing the many well-marketed open source bugs, I was the person who brought in the first piece.
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OSB 2015 – Bringing Security to Your Open Source Project (Video & Slides)
With high profile breaches in open source projects, the issue of security has become one of great import to many people. But many projects, especially smaller ones, are intimidated by the idea of a security audit. This talk will discuss ways for smaller projects to experiment, learn, and even have fun improving their security. No…
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A simple hat in progress
Most of my energies have gone into the new house lately, but that doesn’t mean I haven’t been making things too, just that I haven’t had as much time for writing up of late. So here’s what’s currently on the needles while I start sorting through the backlog of photos and creations: This is from…
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Yarn of the Month Club review, June 2015
I knit all these samples right away, got them blocking… then had houseguests, bought a house, and generally didn’t write this blog post. But the package for July arrived today, so I guess it’s time! June’s theme seemed to be “Linen” which seems like a decent summer theme. I hadn’t really felt linen until recently,…
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Definitely a right-brained brain hat
I actually did complete this hat before giving it to M for Christmas 2013, but apparently I can’t find pictures of it (or the kraken hat I made for S the same year), so instead you get this one photo of it with only one side completed: BTW, I chose the title for this post…
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Twilight Sparkle for Katie
I made this Twilight Sparkle for a friend and then, uh, took a year or something to get it to her. I am the worst at mailing things (in the end, J gave it to her in person and I never mailed it!) The pattern This is a pattern I made myself, and this Twilight…
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February 2015 Knit-a-long: A very belated part 2
You might remember that I posted week 1 and 2 photos from this KAL, but forgot to post the other two weeks of photos and finished object photos here. I finished this back in March at the end of the KAL, so it’s a bit late! Pattern: Fern Lace Shawlette Fern Lace Shawlette by Michele…
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Yarn of the Month Club review, May 2015
Apparently the Yarn of the Month club is *not* a secret society after all: there’s a Yarn of the Month Ravelry group. I am so pleased to know it exists, and mystified as to why I couldn’t find this when I was searching for information before subscribing. May’s Yarn of the Month Club package was…