Episode 3: Get Your Con On

In this episode, we talk about our adventures in knitting (mostly the same as last week, with one finished object) as well as spinning and dyeing.  There’s news from the first couple days of San Diego Comic-Con (not firsthand, sadly), some out of this world news (sorry, couldn’t resist) with what may be Neil Gaiman’s moon (*snerk*) as well as more geeky reading.  Finally, we share another favourite indie dyer as well as a fanartist that had Karen melting into a puddle of goo.  Not that that’s terribly hard.

Discussed in this episode:

Hansa Mittens (one!  one mitten finished! hahaha…)

Marywarmers

Aphrodite Socks

Spinning fibers explained courtesy of Ask the Bellwether and BellaOnline

Wool2Dye4

Ghost Story, the next book in the Dresden Files series by Jim Butcher

Comic-Con updates:  ComingSoon.net, Topless Robot, a report on the line for the Twilight: Breaking Dawn panel and a bullet point about Andy Serkis’ cameo at the Adventures of Tintin panel (is there no video of this?  Seriously?).

The epic Countingdown.com Star Wars line of 1999: an article from Slate, and a snippet of Anticipation: The Real Life Story of Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace (Google Books link)

Pluto’s newest moon and the campaign to name it after Neil Gaiman

Atlantis’ landing(short version from NASA, longer version for fellow nerds), towing Atlantis to the tune of “Star Trek: Voyager” and the Spirit rover (Jan. 4, 2004-May 24, 2011 :’( ) slideshow

Parasol Protectorate series by Gail Carringer

Fall Twist Collective is coming soon!  And an early release of one of the patterns: Hawthorne Hat & Mitts Set by Suzanna IC

Interweave Knits Fall 2011 preview (at the moment the magazine’s home page is the preview–the link to the preview specifically keeps giving me an error, arrgh.)

Sweet Georgia Yarns

Lily Fox’s Deviant Art (including “In Another Life: Wake Up“, aka the drawing that had Karen wibbling over Snape again)

(PS:  Yes, I saw Deathly Hallows again tonight.  DON’T JUDGE ME.)

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