For the second installment of my How To Dress Like series of look books for the characters in Doctor Who, we have the girl who waited, that gangly ginger, Amy Pond. Warning, spoilers!
Can you find the joke?
How To: Dress like River Song
If you’re like me, you’ve been listening to everyone’s amazement at it being August already thinking, “Hello! I’ve been waiting for August to come ’round since the mid-season finale of Doctor Who!” Are you, too, obsessively re-watching all the latest Doctor Who episodes, trying to guess where the plot will lead next? If one thing’s for sure, it’s that the team of characters this season is a solid mix of personality, style, and swashbuckling fun.
This week, in anticipation of Part 2 of this season of Doctor Who, I’ll be posting How To’s on dressing like your favorite character. Starting with my favorite, River Song. Does your Netflix account suggest you’d like the category “dramas with a strong female lead”? Have you watched The Cook, the Thief, his Wife, and her Lover for the Alex Kingston cameo, only to watch it over again for the thrill of it? (And to see Dumbledore and The Queen in those amazing roles again.) Then you might enjoy this round-up to dress like River Song. Next up: Amelia Pond!
The DroidX’s Wife
It’s here! A cell phone cozy for the DroidX I made by customer request. It is custom made for the DroidX, and fits any smartphone snugly. Made from a blue European yarn that’s 100% recycled (regenerated?) from fabric remnants and white organic yarn certified by the Global Organic Textile Standard. A super timey-wimey button keeps your phone and your soul safe. A humanist for life, I always plant one rainforest tree for every item I make.
Look for it and more photos soon at www.etsy.com/shop/KnitsForLife.
Customer request: OySpaceMan! Menswear Beanie (sans scarf)
I got a request from a happy customer to make this hat without the scarf it originally came with. He also wanted something to wear in the summer, so I switched out the acrylic white stripes with organic cotton ones. The blue in this hat is entirely recycled in Europe. As always, it’s a custom fit and comes with a tree donation. Get one for your favorite Doctor Who fan here: http://www.etsy.com/listing/74224616/oyspaceman-hat-in-recycled-fiber
Didn’t get outside today? Listen to Coast and Country instead.
You have that place in the world you secretly think you’re from–in another life or the one you very much wish you lived in. You adamantly collect from your imagination every pebble of truth–a special bloodline, that habit that so perfectly matches the natives. My mom swears she’s a coastal Italian, my sister just might be French, and I’m a pure-blooded country Englishwoman. OK, in reality it’s three-quarters “Great British”, and I don’t know a single relative on the island. But I can taste the briny laverbread in my mouth and feel the fog in my bones!
Like RadioLab, they’ve mastered the medium
I invite you to listen to my favorite escape short of visiting the British Isles, BBC Radio 4’s Coast and Country radio program, available as a podcast. But, you ask, isn’t radio about the outdoors a bit like dancing about painting? Not so with these masters of radio. Every week on coast and country the hosts skillfully depict a hill by drawing your attention to their quickening breath, or portray a sunny break in a forest by hushing up to let you hear the change of mood in the group.
The Brits have a rich heritage of protecting and discussing the importance and meaning of their landscape, which comes across well in the show, perhaps most of all in its sheer existence. The juggle between conservation and preservation, between natural and cultural heritage is also clear in the subject choice and journalistic questions they ask of the people living in the week’s countryside.
Start out with some of my favorites
Resistance (Nov 6, 2010). Hike the forests of Wales looking for underground bunkers to climb into with the then-young secret resistance forces that were prepared for Nazi invasions. (Download episode from the BBC or view here)
Country Ramblings (Oct 2, 2010). Join the Cultural Olympiad through the Forest of Dean with their donkey cart and a young ruffian who loves it. (Download episode from the BBC or view here)
New Forest Mushrooms (Nov 20, 2010). Sniff out pounds of delicacies with the expert who supplies local chefs, learn about mushroom poachers, and finish with sizzling butter in a pan. (Download episode from the BBC or view here)
Sherwood (Apr 9, 2011). Dig up artifacts like a Viking amphitheater under the ancient trees in Sherwood forest and hear how far away you could stand in the mangy crowd and still hear the pronouncement. (Download episode from the BBC or view here)
Check out the website for more, including Roald Dahl & Fantastic Mr. Fox’s countryside, how the river Thames came back to life, making room for seahorses, the world’s most haunted town, and the mistletoe festival!
If you know of any shows as rich as this about the US’s heritage, please share them in the comments. Thanks!
New line of certified organic baby hats
Get one for a cuddly baby you know here or simply read more about materials, sizes, and the accompanying tree donation.
New yarns have arrived!
Knits for Life is developing new products exclusively from organic and/or recycled yarns. Some new shipments arrived and we couldn’t wait to give you a preview! See all the fibers we offer in our fiber options photo set on flickr.
Thank you for planting so many trees!
This just in: We have about a whole grove of trees in the ground now! I’m so grateful to all you who planted these, that today I put together this token of my appreciation. Here’s to another fantastic grove in April.
Original design: Oy, Space Man! hat and scarf combo
I finished my original hat and scarf combo design inspired by everyone’s favorite time traveling doctor. It’s in my Etsy shop and I’m also donating one to Penguicon. Next, I’ll draw up the pattern and sell it, too, in my shop for space man fans.
Test of my first illusion knitting pattern
It works!
Illusion knitting is a knitting technique comprising stripes of color composed of slightly ridged (purl) and flat (knit) stitches which obscure each other when viewed from an oblique angle. The visible ridges are arranged in a pattern, producing the effect of a disappearing image.
It was a perfect opportunity to try this technique when I was asked to donate something for a charity auction at a convention for open source code and sci-fi/fantasy. The battle between copyright and copyleft seemed a perfect subject for an illusion scarf. After this successful test, I’m making the scarf in charcoal grey and mustard gold (after the Linux penguin). I decided to leave out the copyleft symbol and only include a copyright illusion, hoping the implication is not lost on the open source crowd.
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