FYI yarn bowls are not, as it might sound, bowls made of yarn. They are bowls meant to HOLD yarn while you’re knitting, with a spot for the end you’re working with to come out while being held in place so the ball doesn’t roll away. Like so:
The bowls in the post are just really fancy-ass yarn bowls.
evidence that ancient paleolithic venus statues were made by women who were examining their own bodies and sculpting them from their own point of view, not, as previously assumed, exaggerated features from an outside perspective
Two Finnish students decided to build a slightly more hardcore gingerbread house. (source, in Finnish tho)
Slightly
is that fucking Barad-dûr
Here’s a picture of the finished Ginger-Dûr. (Source: Turkulainen, unfortunately only in Finnish, but there are other nifty gingerbread houses in the gallery. My other fave is the Moomin house.)
The article says it took 13.5 kilos of gingerbread dough to make this and it’s over a metre tall. The guys who made it are also studying construction engineering so no wonder…
knitting in the dark 