I am working on a big post about Yarnstorm’s book, the Alison Lapper Statue and the feelings I have about handing in my writeup – finally – tomorrow. The theme loosely is criticism and what it does to learning; also difficult issues and how controversy seems to be a natural result of asking hard questions and delving into political territories like disability, domesticity, craft, feminism…

But to balance this intellectualism and cultural commentary – or perhaps to ground it – I wanted to share these things:

This is Tatami, cast-on in wool I frogged from an old jumper. This feels like carpet yarn to knit with but ought to produce a firm and warm garment. Plus, I am deeply pleased with the enormous amount of yarn the sweater yielded for the £3.99 I paid for it in Age Concern. I suspect the original sweater was produced by a machine as it was standard stockinette and, as I’ve mentioned, is not the nicest thing on this earth to knit with.

In other news, at the Campaign For Drawing event this weekend, I had a lot of fun drawing Mark.

and then bartering this in exchange for someone else’s hand-drawn postcard. Finally, we both contributed drawings to a Bus; mine is the angry, yelling man and Mark’s is the fine pigeon.