13c and 14c Spanish knitting needless often had hooks on the ends – supposedly it helped with lace-making.
More recently, the idea had been resurrected in the Knook. I don’t know anyone who’s tried them.
http://www.knitpro.eu/Materialwise-size-Details.asp?id=131&Language=
Should this be split into another thread? (Pun not intended)
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There’s a general creative thread here: Whatchya Workin’ On, O Creatives?
Or do you think there is enough interest to make one specifically about thread/cloth/material arts?
Hm. This would be more like Whatcha Working with. Metal or plastic? Electric or unpowered? Brand A or Brand B?
Depends on the interest, of course.
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Hmmm… my choices are: plastic, electric, knitting.
There’s gotta be something I can do with that.
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I just want to say that this is a whole lot less funny after that Google demonstration.
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For the Oldz among us who are also good with making stuff from string, Tunisian crochet was called Afghan crochet until about, oh, 9/11/2001.
At least in the US, international mileage may be kilometers.
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Wooden’t you know, they found the perfect job for him at the branch office.
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You’re going out on a limb here. But I’ll leaf you alone.
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What’s with the lines under “am”? Why did it think “am” is misspelled?
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It’s something the software does, according to the teacher.
I hope the student got an A for acorn effort…
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I would mark a few points off for not playing around with punctuation some more. Groot is a bit more expressive than just the three words convey.
From other reports I’ve seen, the student got a 95/100.
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The additional clarification slide at the end killed it.
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This is the definition of contagious laughter
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I already have several of James Gleick’s books, but he just became my hero:
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Brilliant. Read the whole thread.
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jerwin
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I think I remember playing this game.
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