All posts by: Brenda

31 Oct 2009

Episode 86: Anniversarius Podcastia

Cast On returns for its ninth series, trailing builder’s dust, bits of rubble and three moments of ritual humiliation. We spend an hour on the 4th plinth in ten minutes, and magically wind up very close to home.

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17 Sep 2009

Knitting and beer

Judging from the amount of nervous energy I am storing in every cell of my body, by Saturday afternoon I shall surely be in dire need of both. The giant needles arrived last Friday, and I spent the weekend getting acquainted with them. They are very large and somewhat cumbersome to use, but are not…

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08 Sep 2009

Dither dither dither BANG!

With less than two weeks to go, yesterday I began making preparations for my plinth sitting. The process was ridiculously simple, and utterly erased all the stress I had been carrying about the event. Which was good, because I had been worrying, and procrastinating, and then worrying about the procrastinating for weeks. Turns out there…

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04 Sep 2009

The worth of a picture

I wonder how many people clicked to look at this sweater after the Harlot linked to it on Twitter? A lot, I’m betting. I did too, and found this other pattern for free, on the Berroco site. A few years ago a friend sent me a photo of a Donna Karan sweater, clipped from a…

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