Librarian on the rural Canadian prairies. Graying. English, French, Spanish, studying Mandarin. Morbid curiosity is my hamartia. I keep most of the librarian stuff on @liprairian.
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an important thing to know about Count Binface is that he was previously Lord Buckethead, pictured here with Theresa May in 2017.
Lord Buckethead previously ran against Margaret Thatcher in 1987 and against John Major in 1992. Lord Buckethead ran for the Gremloids party.
Officially all Lord Bucketheads are the same Lord Buckethead who went away for a while and returned; however, it has come to light that Lord Buckethead (1987, 1992) and Lord Buckethead (2017) were two different guys under the bucket.
Following the 2017 general election the original creator of Lord Buckethead (not either of the guys who had worn the costume) asserted his legal rights over the character and 2017 Lord Buckethead acquiesced. and so, Count Binface came into being.
In the 2019 general election Lord Buckethead and Count Binface both ran against Boris Johnson, Binface as an indepent and Buckethead having joined the Monster Raving Looney Party. (NB this Lord Buckethead was a third different guy, not 87/92 Buckethead)
Lord Buckethead won the race but has not stood in an election since whereas Count Binface has been very prolific, running in two mayoral elections, two by-elections, and one further general election in 2024:
The best part of getting older is aging out of the demographic that gets killed in horror movies. I am now the age of the kooky local at the gas station who warns the band of college kids not to go to Camp Murderblood
Mitch McConnell has been sent to a nice farm out in the country where there's lots of open space to run around and lots of other senators for him to play with
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I have approximately eight thousand million beans in my pantry (pinto beans, black beans, and green lentils, primarily). Anybody have any recipes they like that are bean- or lentil-based?
Black bean soup (basically black bean dip but, like, soup. Freezes incredibly well.)
Also, I am normally of everyone else's opinion regarding NYT and its Ingredients™, but this chicken and lentils is downright alchemical. You can honestly get away with just plain sour cream as your only condiment, although the daqa is good.
if Ancelstierre keeps moving into the future and the royal family keeps sending their kids to school there, eventually the next Abhorsen might be that person who brings a guitar to a party and plays Wonderwall
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ok i know i'm one to talk but genuinely if you think 👍 or ❤️ is "passive aggressive" you might be spending a bit too much time on your phone jeez louise
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I appear to be living the beginning of a T. Kingfisher horror.
Early July after record rainfall, everything is stunningly green. I'm driving along the highway to on my way to Tailbone, AB (not the arsehole of Alberta but you can see it from there) when I pass a stand of aspen that looks kind of odd. Maybe they're diseased? Rust fungus doesn't hit deciduous though, and I don't think that dog shit fungus hits aspen either. Is there like a Dutch Elm Disease for aspen that I don't know about?
The next stand looks totally normal, Death at a Funeral style.
Maybe I'm losing my touch? I thought I could tell trembling aspen from black poplar from the road but maybe I'm just a chump and thinking the trembling aspen should be as full as black poplar. I pass another stand of trees that looks kind of odd.
These trees don't look dead right.
A dying aspen or poplar has normal/sparse leaves on the bottom and bare branches on top, and it's usually surrounded by live ones. Trees that're all dead at once look bleached out and there are usually some branches broken off a few. You can usually tell by the surrounding vegetation that the dead area flooded recently.
These ones aren't bleached or broken, they just... don't have any leaves at all. And they're all identical.
I pass another set of weird trees. The shrubs are also dead??
By my fourth stand of dead/not-dead trees, I realize that the trees aren't actually naked, I just didn't expect what I was seeing. They actually have this lovely light-green fuzz around them like it's early May instead of July, and they're just leafing out. But it is July, and it's been lovely out, and the next set of trees 100 metres away looks glossy and pristine and exactly the way trees in July should look.
I pass about 4 more stands of "late" trees, getting more and more weirded out, before I finally get to town. I ask what the hell is going on and. It's tent caterpillars.
For those who haven't had the felicity, forest tent caterpillars favour poplar and trembling aspen. They do an "outbreak" every ten years or so where they defoliate an entire shelter belt or aspen bluff, then mass-migrate across the highway to repeat the process on the other side. If you're unlucky enough to be near a mass of them when feeding, there are so many you can actually hear them chewing. There's also a faint sort of rainfall sound as they continuously shit out about 80% of what they eat. They are inescapable and skin crawling. My mom was a kid camping during an outbreak in Saskatchewan in the 70s and still has a phobia.
I'm not very excited to meet the red-herring objectionable separatist right around the time I start seeing the sickly white silk trails </3
Knitting finished as of last night! Still need to weave in a few ends, wash, and block.
Was aiming for 48” x 60”, came out 39” x 60” so far, but I’m hoping to be able to block it to a little wider and I’m ok losing a few inches of length for that
Thank you so much for all the nice things everyone has said about this blanket! Unfortunately, I do not have a pattern, so much as I have several patterns and some back-of-the-napkin style math notes that won’t make sense to anyone but me - but I do have a picture of this planning piece (since frogged to reuse the yarn in the blanket itself.)
As a few people in the notes pointed out, the dragon pattern is Tahesha the Dragoness by Ina Wendrock
Skill level: Advanced cable knit / Zopfmuster für Fortgeschrittene
But it's on a plain reverse stockinette background, and I wanted this as part of a complex cable afghan. It's going to be a wedding gift for two friends in my DnD group, so I knew I wanted it big enough that two people could reasonably share it while watching TV together on a couch, and for a dragon to still be visible when folded and draped over the back of a couch or chair, in case that's how they store it. So I knew I was committing myself to knitting 5 dragons (one in the center and one in each of the four corners), and figuring out myself how to plop the dragon in to a larger cable blanket pattern.
Back in November, I bought the dragon pattern and knit a test version of it so I could see how it worked and measure the dimensions. (You can see from the curled up edges that I did this before I found the part in the pattern notes where Ina Wendrock helpfully informs us that the dragon is knit over 45 initial stitches, to help us add it to our own projects, but ah well.) Then I started trying to figure out the other cables.
I knew I wanted some traditional cables so that it had an heirloom look to it (but with dragons), but I thought that the dragons would look too out of place if everything else looked copy-pasted from a classic fisherman’s sweater. Fortunately, there are a number of knitting designers right now doing cool things with trying to make cables that resemble Celtic knot motifs, so I went to the public library and borrowed a bunch of cable knitting books and started bookmarking what I liked. My favorite patterns were all coming from this book:
Mention the phrase ?cable knitting,? and most people?knitters and non-knitters alike?envision textured ropes, twists, and braids winding up
Which looks like it's out of print now, but wasn't in December and I was able to ask for and receive it for Christmas. (Designer Melissa Leapman's ravelry store is here in case anyone wants to check it out):
I narrowed my bookmarked cables down to patterns that had 1) an odd number of stitches; 2) a central "crossover" cable in multiple parts of the pattern so that I could "open" it up to create the medallions that the dragons would sit in; and 3) a stitchcount of less than 45, by enough that I'd have room to drop a traditional cable on either side. My favorite two would then be the center cables for the central dragon panel and the left & right dragon panels (when I wasn't doing the dragons), and then I decided on a very simple c4b twist between the panels and a tight 5-rib cable braid on the edges. I loved the first two patterns from the book that I tested and didn't have to try any of my runner-up bookmarks - but if you zoom in on the picture, you can see that for the traditional cables around the Melissa Leapman cable for the center panel, I tried and discarded a honeycomb cable and an Xs and Os variant before deciding on the one that I'm not actually sure of the name of that made it into the final pattern. For the side panels, I had thought it might be nice to incorporate a hearts cable since it was for a wedding blanket. I'm not sure how traditional these heart cables are, but I've seen them unattributed in more than one published pattern from different sources, and they're published in a number of cable pattern guides online. They worked next to the Melissa Leapman cable I wanted for the side panels, so they went in the pattern without me trying anything else.
While practicing the dragon cable, I had noticed that many of the cables started with an increase, so on the back of one of my chart print-outs, I graphed a rough plan for what I had decided to put where in terms of the traditional and Leapman cables that would go around the dragons, and numbered out the stitches if I worked the first cables in each pattern as increases instead of cables to mimic the start of the dragons. Then I added up the total number of stitches and cast on, and it worked surprisingly well! After completing one repeat of the side-panel central cables, I started "opening" up the circles where the dragon would be through improvisation (the left and right panels that were parallel always matched each other because I was doing the same thing in each row - other than that, I wound up doing it slightly differently every time, and that was ok. They look the same enough.)
I had planned to either leave it un-bordered or add the full mitered border that Ina Wendrock (who designed the dragon pattern) has on her store depending on how it worked up, but after I'd knit enough to see what it looked like, I decided that the mitered border was overkill, but it did need something, so when I finally got to the end I did an I-chord bind-off and then went back and picked up stitches along the cast-on to do an I-chord bind-off there too. If I had it to do over again, I might have done a folded hem on each side instead, but we'll see how the I-chord blocks.
So, that's how you make the dragon blanket. Either get the patterns I mentioned and try to duplicate, or just buy the dragon and add your favorite cables for the rest!
[Sorry I'm not more help, but I cannot stress enough - I did not write any of this down as I went.]
[[For the patterns that were from the Continuous Cables book, I used panel 10 from page 136 for the center and panel 27 from page 146 for the sides]]
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