Random Walk

Here is the pattern for the "popple" string bag:

http://ursula1972.livejournal.com/570.html

There are more comments in later posts on that livejournal.

I use a Number 3 crochet cotton with a 2.5 mm hook, which gives a bag the size of my fist balled up, and about the size of a standard plastic bag when used. I need about 1.5 balls of #3 cotton for one bag.

Mill - David Macaulay - very interesting book about several mills on a river/stream in Providence. Beautifully illustrated. I am glad my copy is hardbound.

Killing Orders - Sara Paretsky - another in the V.I. series. Yum.

Bitter Medicine - Sara Paretsky - the same.

Year's total: 155

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vi reference mug - http://www.cafepress.com/geekcheat.13045099

Gin & Titonic ice cube tray - http://www.stupid.com/fun/GTIC.html

Self-Rescuing Princess shirt - http://www.thinkgeek.com/tshirts-apparel/womens/c3d2/

Love or Peace bracelet - http://www.northernsun.com/n/s/2221.html
http://www.northernsun.com/n/s/Silver%20Peace%20Intention%20Bracelet-(2199).html

RFID blocking passport sleeve, like this one - http://www.idstronghold.com/content/secure-sleeve%C2%AE-passports-3-pack

These earrings - http://lioness.net/L/ea/eaForeverAfternoon/
Directions for ordering here: http://elisem.livejournal.com/1536545.html#cutid1

Repair hook: may be available various places; is this: http://www.lanternmoon.com/repairHooks.asp

Stuff from Nordic Needle:
Tatting book: http://www.nordicneedle.com/PROD/1208.html
Tatting shuttle (1 or 2): http://www.nordicneedle.com/Merchant2/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Product_Code=7276&Store_Code=NN&search=tatting+shuttle&filter_cat=&PowerSearch_Begin_Only=&sort=&range_low=&range_high=
Extra bobbins for shuttle: http://www.nordicneedle.com/Merchant2/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Product_Code=7276&Store_Code=NN&search=tatting+shuttle&filter_cat=&PowerSearch_Begin_Only=&sort=&range_low=&range_high=
Needlework kit: http://www.nordicneedle.com/PROD/K1388.html
Bookmark patterns: http://www.nordicneedle.com/Merchant2/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Product_Code=0790&Store_Code=NN&search=bookmark&filter_cat=&PowerSearch_Begin_Only=&sort=&range_low=&range_high=
Both these shawl pins: http://www.nordicneedle.com/Merchant2/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Product_Code=6741&Store_Code=NN&search=laying+tool&filter_cat=&PowerSearch_Begin_Only=&sort=&range_low=&range_high=
http://www.nordicneedle.com/Merchant2/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Product_Code=6742&Store_Code=NN&search=laying+tool&filter_cat=&PowerSearch_Begin_Only=&sort=&range_low=&range_high=

Amber stone hair slide: http://www.harpanddragon.com/barrjew.htm

Tree bookmark - http://www.oberondesign.com/bookmark.php


Books!
Sword & Sorceress 24
Mistress of the Art of Death - Ariana Franklin
The Conquest - Yxta Maya Murray
The Apocalypse Door - Jim Macdonald
Slack: Getting Past Burnout - Tom DeMarco
Brightsided - Barbara Ehrenrich
Cheap: The High Cost of Discount Culture - Ellen Ruppel Shell
Jane Austen's Sewing Box - Jennifer Forest
Origami You Can Use: 27 Practical Projects - Rick Beech
Fire - Robin McKinley & Peter Dickinson
The White Queen - Philippa Gregory
A Civil Contract - Georgette Heyer
The Snow Queen - Mercedes Lackey
White as Snow - Tanith Lee
Lace & Blade - Deborah J. Ross
Lace & Blade 2 - Deborah J. Ross

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Dead Lock - Sara Paretsky - another V.I. Warchawski. Good.

I am stressy about work, and very likely to be reading a fair bit in the next few weeks.

Year's total: 152

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Faking It - Jennifer Crusie - light, amusing read. May or may not keep.

Year's Total: 151

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Daggerspell - Katherine Kerr - a very good read. There are 15 in the series, and I am looking forward to read my way through. It's interesting how she jumps around in time, but it was not hard to keep what was happening straight in my head.


Year's total: 150

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Twenty years ago today a man walked into the École Polytechnique in Montreal, separated male from female students,and started killing the women, for daring to be women who wanted to be engineers. 14 women died. Here are their names:

* Geneviève Bergeron (born 1968), civil engineering student
* Hélène Colgan (born 1966), mechanical engineering student
* Nathalie Croteau (born 1966), mechanical engineering student
* Barbara Daigneault (born 1967), mechanical engineering student
* Anne-Marie Edward (born 1968), chemical engineering student
* Maud Haviernick (born 1960), materials engineering student
* Maryse Laganière (born 1964), budget clerk in the École Polytechnique's finance department
* Maryse Leclair (born 1966), materials engineering student
* Anne-Marie Lemay (born 1967), mechanical engineering student
* Sonia Pelletier (born 1961), mechanical engineering student
* Michèle Richard (born 1968), materials engineering student
* Annie St-Arneault (born 1966), mechanical engineering student
* Annie Turcotte (born 1969), materials engineering student
* Barbara Klucznik-Widajewicz (born 1958), nursing student

(from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89cole_Polytechnique_massacre )

I am not sure how I didn't hear about this, since I was 14 when it happened, but I am glad I did not. If I had I might have thought twice about becoming an engineer. That's one of the points of violence against women: keeping us scared.

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Garden of Iden - Kage Baker - good read. A sort of historical fiction/ science fiction crossoverishness. I am interested to see what happens in the next one.

Heart of Gold - Sharon Shinn - very enjoyable. Ending was a bit unexpected, but very much follows from the prior story

Year's total: 149

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It strikes me that it would be useful to have a post of basic tatting information I can point anyone who's interested to. So....

Basic How to Tat Info:
http://personalpages.tds.net/~tatting/
http://www.tatting.net/techniques.html
http://www.georgiaseitz.com/

Online Tatting Class & Much More:
http://www.georgiaseitz.com/

Another Lots of Stuff Site:
http://www.e.n.e.btinternet.co.uk/

Places I Have Purchased From:
http://www.hhtatting.com/
http://www.ds9designs.com/index.shtml
http://www.tatsall.ca/tools.htm

Lists of Tatting Links Online, Some of Which Are Broken:
http://www.craftsitedirectory.com/tatting/index.html
http://m.webring.com/t/E-Tatters-Webring?sid=17
http://home.earthlink.net/~frmuse/alison/index.html
http://home.netcom.com/~ntrop/mimi/tatting.html
http://www.sandbenders.demon.co.uk/tatting.htm
http://www.tatting.de/dol/index.htm

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Solstice Wood - Patricia McKillip - very good. A mixture of her typical other-world and our world. Very good read.

Year's total: 147

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The Other Queen - Philippa Gregory - interesting. a very different view of Queen Elizabeth than the usual.

Year's total: 146

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Double Indemnity - Sara Paretsky - The first of the V.I. Warchowski books. A good read. Will be finding the rest of them!

Year's total: 145

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This Alien Shore - C. S. Friedman - interesting scifi thriller. Much enjoyed.

Embroideries - Marjane Satrapi - reread of the graphic novel. One of my favorites.

Arslan (A Wind from Bukhara) - M. J. Engh - an unsettling book, I don't think I liked it, but it was worth having read.

Happy Hour at Castle Dracula - Marta Acosta - amusing read.

Fried by Jury - Claudia Bishop - another in the Hemlock Falls series.

Palace - Katharine Kerr & Mark Kreighbaum - my only complaint is that it feels like the start of a series, but is a standalone!

The Honor of the Queen - David Weber - mil sf; a good pass-time.

Wave without a Shore - C. J. Cherryh - weird as only Cherryh can be. Will revisit.


Year's total: 144

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More magazines - these I am not keeping.

F&SF February 1995
F&SF March 1996
F&SF December 1977
Analog July 1988

No story or combination of stories jumped out or were memorable enough for me to decide to keep them.

Year's total: 136

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Under Orders - Dick Francis - as usual, a good read. Not too deep, but good.

Deservedly Dead - Sherri Tepper as B.J. Oliphant - a good read too, but not one I'm keeping. I'd like to read the others in the series. I should probably let the Jason Lynx ones go too.

Sword & Sorceress XXII - ed. Elisabeth Waters - good.

Sword & Sorceress XXIII - ed. Elisabeth Waters - also good.

London Bridges - Jane Stevenson - fun novel, enjoyable suspense, I'm still not keeping it, though I will recommend it!

Year's total: 131

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I am experimenting with different toe up sock patterns, and I should document results.

Priscilla Gibson-Roberts Simple Socks pattern is cool, but not good for regularly striped yarns, because the short row heels and toes are not symmetrical. The crochet cast on is better for me than the cast on given in the book.

With my stripey yarn, I tried another toe up cast on: the cast on given in the Summer 2007 issue of Interweave Knits. I don't like it - it's fiddly and non-intuitive, and hard for me to do.

I would like to try Judy's Magic Cast On, and the cast on given by elann and knitty.

I will edit this post as I have more info.

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Bimbos of the Death Sun - Sharyn McCrumb - amusing mystery set at an sff convention. Quick read. I think it may be a roman à clef, but I don't know enough to unlock it.

Year's total: 126

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4 more magazines I will not be keeping because nothing in them grabbed me enough:

F&SF Dec 1977, Feb 1995, Mar 1996

Analog Jul 1988

Year's Total: 125

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I have several feet of sff magazine, and I have decided that each one of them is a book, and should be counted as a book.

Cart & Cwidder (Dalemark Quartet #1) - Diana Wynne Jones - a good fantasy; I like how the parents are people too. I am unsure whether or not I will keep it, because if I do, it will be to lend to various nieces and nephews.

The Spellcoats (Dalemark Quartet #3) - Diana Wynne Jones - set a few thousand years before Cart & Cwidder. Interesting book. Fiberwork is important, which connects with me. I'm planning on keeping this one.


Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, March 1979 - served to pass time.

Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, September 9, 1981 - served to pass time.

Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, August 1989 - served to pass time.


Year's total: 121

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Point of Honour - Madeleine E. Robins - fantastic Regency mystery - reminds me of Kate Ross. Will keep and look for more.

The Interior Life - Katherine Blake (Dorothy Heydt) - set in the early 1980s; interesting examination of the life of a stay at home mom crossed with a fantasy story - very good and interesting. I like the use of typefaces to indicate which world, and whether or not we are looking at what a person it thinking.

Year's total: 116

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