WWW: Bouncy Happy Sheep; Knitting Needles in Space; Knitting Patterns as Code

This can’t fail to improve your day:

Sheep wants to be dog pic.twitter.com/lGFmgsW1zS

— Lovin Dublin (@LovinDublin) February 8, 2016

Have difficulty telling Llamas and Aplacas apart? This handy guide might help. Although, I’m not often in a position to encounter, let alone mistake, the two, I did enjoy learning more about the personalities of these charming creatures!

Socks worn by Albert Edward Prince of Wales, 1842. Image ©Historic Royal Palaces

A philosophical pondering on the nature of a darned sock. The author of this article thought it was about repairing buildings. I think it’s about a fascinating royal sock.

I’m often asked about whether you can take knitting needles on planes (the answer is generally yes, FYI), but I’d never considered whether you’re allowed to take knitting needles into space…

Amazing: the world’s largest crochet blanket. At 11,148 square meters – nearly 3 acres – in size took over 2000 women over 6 months to create. The objective was to establish a world record, and once it was officially measured, the blanket was divided into 8,034 individual blankets to be donated to the homeless and the needy.

A smart and interesting discussion of the parallels between knitting and writing computer code, and a discussion of the Waldorf School skill-centric teaching methods… “Can learning to knit help those learning to code?” Spoiler alert: yes!