A Klein Bottle

A Klein bottle is an interesting closed surface that comes up in certain areas of mathematics. After our wonderful librarian at school hooked me up (no pun intended, but I will leave it) with a paper on a knitted version of a Klein bottle, I thought I should really try to crochet one someday. Enter:…

Let the Halloween-ing Begin!

I really like Halloween. I tend to take my Halloween costumes veeeeery seriously. I mean, how often do you get to combine your craftiness with something awesome and absurd that you get to wear all day? So, in light of Halloween coming up, I'd like to take you on a Halloween costume journey...through time! October…

Rosie

I am writing to you now, dear readers, with great difficulty of concentration ... the reason is that I'm caught between typing and snorgling the small adorable puppy at my feet. (See below for explanation.) This, however, is not my puppy. This is my parents' puppy that they brought home a few days ago. She…

The Smudge

The other day, Mark and I shifted around the furniture in our office, to make room for our old couch to go up there. (Ever since we got our new couch, the old one got dumped in front of the fireplace, seeing as we had nowhere else to put it.) We decided to put the…