Buckle up! It’s Links time!
After what felt like eighty-four years, January has ended. I thought it would never happen. Now it’s February, which means we all have to gird our loins for the onslaught of romance thinkpieces being published in time for Valentine’s Day.
Stay vigilant out there, friends!
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Enjoy romances where a character thinks they’ll never get another chance at love? Well, you’ll love these recommendations from Sil over at Frolic!
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We were passing this link around our Slack earlier last week. It’s a list of sci-fi and fantasy that don’t feature the death of queer characters.
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Did you know that Outlander has it’s own Jeni’s Ice Cream flavor?
View this post on Instagram
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One knitter is using her yarn to track daily temperatures as a way to display the effects climate change.
https://twitter.com/porridgebrain/status/1223904855128969221
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Unsure of what to get your partner for Valentine’s Day? Why not name a hissing cockroach in their honor at the Bronx Zoo!
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Don’t forget to share what super cool things you’ve seen, read, or listened to this week! And if you have anything you think we’d like to post on a future Wednesday Links, send it my way!
I love all of the colors of the temperature scarf. I am very new to knitting – are there any experienced knitters out there to answer a question about this for me? The knitter did say what pattern she was using, but she didn’t explain how she uses the sunny/rainy/etc. part, especially since that wool looks a lot thinner than the temperature wool. Does she combine them together? And if so, what kind of wool is appropriate to use for the thinner bits? Thanks for any answers. 🙂
Atlas Obscura visits the Vibrator Museum and the very competent curator answers questions:
https://digg.com/video/everything-you-ever-wanted-to-know-about-san-franciscos-antique-vibrator-museum-but-were-afraid-to-ask
Please note that the El Paso zoo has a similar fundraiser but it involves feeding ethically frozen cockroaches named after your ex to an insectivore http://www.elpasozoo.org/experiences/quit-bugging-me
DiscoDolly.Deb- super great link. Thank you so much.
@Laurel I am a semi-experienced knitter and had the same questions. Reading through the comments, it looks like we are assuming she does combine 2 threads for the row: double-stranded knitting, I think is what it’s called, but I’m self-taught in two languages and mess up terminology constantly.
So, I reckon you could show this tweet to any fiber geek at your local yarn shop and walk out with exactly what you need for the project – that’s my plan, anyway!
@Emily: I did that last year!
Hi knitters!
We’ve been making temperature blankets, scarves, and shawls for quite some time now. Generally you pick a color palette and then decide on a temperature range for each of the colors you’re using. I made a large shawl a few years ago and knitted 2 rows for each day of that year. I used 9 colors for a total temperature range of -20 to 80+ F – each covered 10-20 degrees within that range. Here’s the project page: https://www.ravelry.com/projects/winemakerssister/fractal-danger-2 I used some locally dyed fingering weight wool and rewrote the shawl pattern to accommodate 365×2 rows.
If you’d like lots of inspiration, Eat.Sleep.Knit held a Temperature KAL last year and people knitted lots of different variations on this idea. Here’s a thread with final projects: https://www.ravelry.com/discuss/eatsleepknitters/3989490/1-25#1
I’m happy to answer questions or help in any way. I’ll click on “Notify me of follow-up comments” in case you’d like to respond. Or you can find me on Ravelry: winemakerssister (I included a link to my Rav profile page as my website).
Thanks for the information HeatherP – I will check out the links.