I have read two places that Russell Crowe has taken up knitting, here is one (last blurb). This Russell Crowe thing has gone around a few times due to that semi-famous picture with the knitting needles, I wonder if this is just an extension of that?

Knit your own fry up! From the pages of the Jackie Annual 1979. Via Creazativity, check out her own bacon and eggs bag.

This gorgeous dress made from entirely from abadoned umbrellas is spectacular. Note the rosettes which decorate the bodice are those little things from the top of the umbrella. I also like that the snap closures are left as decorative elements. link via amelielabonne!

The Stitch 'n Bitch book was in Newsweek, you can get some behind the scenes info at knithappens.com, the site for the book. [note: my internet connection is being strange and I cannot actually get to the article, so if the link is broken broken, and not just broken for me, please do let me know.]

Free knitted Elvis wig pattern! (I forget where I found this link but thank you to whomever it was.)

I'm fond of confections, I hope I'm using that word correctly. I'd like to learn more about making candy, but not necessarily all of that chocolate stuff. I'm talking working with sugar - marshmallows, sugar sculptures, sugar bubbles, sugar cages, shaped hard candy. Does anyone have book recommendations for how-to? What little browsing I've done so far turns up the Jaques Torres Desert Circus books, but his main thing is chocolate. Any references I'm being completely blind over?

You can now buy Ginger Altoids from the Altoids web site, now I feel silly for having all those tins of it stashed in my freezer.

Yesterday I attempted to make marshmallow flowers using this marshmallow for piping recipe. I was spectacularily unsuccessful. I did some on parchment paper which had powdered sugar sprinkled on it, and some on clean parchment paper. I was going for 3" or smaller flowers, so the stuff piped over the powdered sugar wouldn't release itself from the tip of the pastry bag, and the stuff over the clean parchment is likely stuck there forever. I have very little experience with piping, and even that was of the squeeze it out of the corner of a ziplock bag type. I got about two flowers, a handful of squiggles, and some worm shapes before the mixture set and refused to be piped anymore. I'm sure if I were piping heavier shapes, like the bunnies and chicks the recipe is meant for, I would have had more luck. Oh well. Pictures later if I don't eat everything first.