The Bluestocking: To the moon and back gerbil style.

[Boiledbeetle]

Previous thread of chat and general madness below

https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/womens_rights/5506124-the-bluestocking-womens-pub-spring-is-sprunging-and-mns-name-generator-can-do-one

Women: from an orderly queue at the bar or take a seat and grab a passing gerbil.

Men: turn left at the end of the road, keep walking until you find the Staunch Ally.

Bar gerbil a full fat coke please and a packet of Scampi Fries please.

I've just finished the second pair of socks matching your seasonal description there. Here's one of each pair. They probably look better actually on feet!

Whenever I see certain Exmoor headlands and moorlands bedecked with the purple of large heather against the dark green and gold of gorse I’m reminded of an elderly Welsh lady from my childhood church who had a tweedy coat and matching handbag in exactly those colours. It’s not the most obvious combination so I think must have been inspired by such a landscape.

And on parrots, dm would tell of her grandparents’ bird which went missing. When they were eventually reunited GGM asked the finder if they’d asked Polly where she lived, because she could have told them.

Would Polly understand the question, or would they just have to let her run through her repertoire?

Two more squares done. The first one is balloons (or, this being MN, balonz?) in knitting, crochet & embroidery.

The second one is cosmetics in intarsia knitting, which is not my forte as is obvious. The ridges in the knitting!!! No idea why they're like that, especially as I wasn't stranding the yarn across the back, so the nail polish shouldn't have ridges in the middle of it - & why do they stop in one area? The background also has ridges in places, when I was only using one colour. It's a mystery to me, & any answers would be welcome. Is it just that my tension varies?

I adore the black & white badger, Cake!

I think intarsia is what I was doing for the badger, although I did have some little floats to try to keep the number of ends down. I think my tension was probably all over the place. It's so curly it's hard to tell. I'm just happy to have relatively successfully finished it. If Woolley Hugs decide to unravel it for the cat to play with, I'll be fine with that.

Android, yours are super. The balloons are especially beautiful.

The implication was that Polly would have understood!

Wonderful knitting, I’m sure any lumps and bumps you can detect will be smoothed out by the miracle of blocking.

I had to go back and check - yes both Cake and Android have produced brilliant squares! The badger and the nail-polish are fantastic.
And lovely socks, Stars, very earthy

I'm sure Errol's great-grand- parrot would have understood perfectly when asked where she lived. I believe she could also count, add, subtract, multiply, even do long division. She was a Pollymath.

I'll get my blue velvet coat

I saw this on the BBC website, I haven't read the article because I think it would spoil the neat bizarreness of this:

Earliest known octopus is not an octopus after all
Reading scientists use new technology to discover teeth within the fossil meaning its not an octopus
🙃

The octopus ate my apostrophe, Miss.

Wonderful knitting and crochet, Cake, Stars and Android. Some lovely work there.

Helloo

pint of lambrini please gerbils.

day two with mr hedgehog in my gardening business. Had to give a few instructions regarding mowing techniques, which he took on the chin.

working okay, no mansplaining has occurred thus far, and has followed my directions.

it does reduce my working day and he has acknowledged that my work is harder physically than he realised.

was wandering around FWR threads this afternoon. Iwanttoretire has a bloody good point about a certain poster being a T*l who is intent on derailing an entire board.

i have complained on site stuff if you care to look

this person has form for violence in the real world.

my customers are getting older as i am i

Added to this @Hedgehogforshort
I have previously reported this poster though......

Thanks frantic i think everyone should moan about it. He is beyond the pale.

But i guess they are scared of being sued.

Cake!!! The badger is fab!
Android- these are great! Why is there a little sad blue face at the bottom of the square with the balloons though? 😉

There's a shocked one at the side of the make up!

Stunning. I would love the pattern for the badger one if you would be willing to share. I've a bit of a thing for badgers.

If you look on Ravelry for the Fish Lips Kiss heel pattern it's really easy and a really good recipe for well-fitting socks.

Absolutely perfect - in their execution and the subject matter.

Thank you. I'll have a look.

I found a picture...somewhere, put it into this website with the dimensions, number of rows and stitches (I really had no idea what I was doing, I might as well have bashed it with my tits😆), let it do its magic, tidied it up, took a screenshot, for some reason, which currently escapes me, rotated it and (this was the hardest bit) found someone with a working printer.

What I knitted isn't exactly this. I amended it on the fly, but only minor changes.

What's the website, Cake?
I'm asking even though it could turn out to be the most massive time-sink.

It's called Stitch Fiddle.

...sorry!