I’ve got another sneak peek from the Stampin’ Up! Second Release Sale-a-bration selections today! This card features the Tags In Bloom stamp set and it will be available beginning on March 3…

Paragraph writing is a big challenge for many students. This post includes a step-by-step method to help your students write great paragraphs in no time.

Most of us have that one friend who keeps calling out our grammar mistakes. (Of course, I won't be as careful with my language hanging out at a bar as I would writing a uni paper, Rob.)

Part I of IV. In an effort to help schools become more reflective learning environments, I’ve developed this “Taxonomy of Reflection.” – modeled on Bloom’s approach. I…

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It feels like we’ve all moved on with out lives after Nirvana, and then all of a sudden some kid reminds us what it used to be like listening to In Bloom, by slaying the drums along to the song and then we stick on the albums again! Let us not ever move on too […]

Hans my Hedgehog has always been one of my favorite fairy tales and a few days ago I got it into my head to knit some hedgehogs. I mentioned this to my friend Kristen who suggested I have a look at this knitting pattern over at Purlbee. The pattern is accompanied by a lovely essay which reminds me of the fact that there are no hedgehogs native to the United States, and, like the author of the essay, neither have I ever met a hedgehog in person (aside from Mrs. Tiggywinkle). I wanted a simpler pattern than the one at Purlbee (as many of you know, I'm a lazy knitter) and so below you will find the result of my efforts to create an easy pattern. MATERIALS REQUIRED To knit the bodies of these hedgehogs I used Jamiesons's fingering weight held double in a color called Moorit. For the faces I used a DK weight from Jamieson's in a color called Mogit, but any earth-tone heathered yarns in DK or worsted weight would work well. In addition to two shades of earth-tone DK or worsted weight yarn, you will need a scrap of brown wool felt for ears and a 1/2 yard black 6 ply cotton embroidery floss. Tiny buttons or black beads would work nicely for eyes, too. NEEDLE SIZE I used a size US 3 needle, which is smaller than this yarn would normally require. You can see here that I like knitting tiny animals using size 3 needles -- it keeps my stitches tight so the stuffing doesn't peek through. And I don't enjoy knitting in the round with DPNS, so this pattern is knit flat then seamed up at the end, but you are welcome to adjust my pattern for DPNS if you prefer. STITCHES USED Seed Stitch: Work rows as follows: (k1, p1), repeat to end. On alternating rows you will start with a purl stitch i.e. (p1, k1) thus purling into the knit stitches and knitting into the purl stitches. Stockinette Stitch: knit on RS, purl on WS PATTERN LARGE HEDGEHOG (approx. 9 cm finished length) Cast on 24st using darker colored yarn for the hedgehog body Rows 1-18: Seed Stitch (k1, p1 alternating with rows of p1,k1) Row 19: Switch to lighter colored yarn (k2, k2tog) repeat to end of row (18 st.) Row 20: Purl across row Row 21: (k2, k2tog) repeat to end of row (14 st.) Row 22: Purl Row 23: (k2, k2tog) repeat to end of row Row 24: Purl Row 25: k2tog across row (6 st.) Row 26: Purl Row 27: k2tog across row and, using a tapestry needle, draw yarn through remaining 3 st. Using the tail end of the lighter yarn, stitch up snout area of hedgehog and weave in end. Using the tail end of the darker yarn (where it's joined to the lighter yarn) stitch up the body and weave in end to secure. Stuff hedgehog, but not too firmly. Use the tail end from casting on to create running stitches around the end of the hedgehog. Pull tight to gather, and secure end of the yarn to hold the gathered stitches. If you would like the nose on your hedgehog to turn up, position the hedgehog body with your seam on top, along the back of your hedgehog (don't worry -- the texture of the seed stitch will hide your joining seam.) Then, using black embroidery floss, embroider eyes and nose (note: you can pop in some ball-head straight pins to help decide on eye placement -- see photo below.) Add ears by stitching on small, rounded bits of felt. SMALL HEDGEHOG (approx. 6 cm finished length) Cast on 16st using darker colored yarn for the hedgehog body Rows 1-12: Seed Stitch (k1, p1 alternating with rows of p1,k1) Row 13: Switch to lighter colored yarn (k2, k2tog) repeat to end of row(12 st.) Row 14: Purl across row Row 15: (k2, k2tog) repeat to end of row (9 st.) Row 16: Purl Row 17: k2tog twice, k1, k2tog twice Row 18: Purl 2tog, p1, p2tog Row 27: Using a tapestry needle, draw yarn through remaining 3 st. See instructions above for finishing. Note: If you use my pattern, I would be delighted if you would hop over to Ravelry and post a photo of your version. You can find my hedgehogs here on Ravelry.

"A Blossoming Romance" 20x40 "Cutie Pie" 12x24 SOLD! "Pink Polka-Dots" 18x24 "U R Loved" 18x36 "Emma Gayle" 18x24 SOLD!...

rummaging for something else entirely this morning i found an old photograph that i had taken 33 years ago exactly on September 29th, 1976 it had survived the 83 bushfire in someone else's keeping i shot it with a Canon FTb...an honest SLR camera that doesn't do anything unless you ask it. you set the exposure and the aperture and press the button. it has a light meter but if the battery on that goes flat you can still take a picture with a lovely real clunking sound. i still have it. i still go back to that view, too. it's from the top of Russian Hill in San Francisco. and hey, those are eucalyptus leaves dangling in the foreground. that famous bridge is in the far distance, a little bleached with time. we'd come to San Francisco having driven a Jeep across Canada and then down the west coast of the US. that the Jeep [known fondly as the Heap and acquired for the princely sum of $200] got so far is testament to the mechanical nursing skills of my Papa. He's [still] more than just a pretty face and a PhD in Glaciology [mind you, i do sometimes question his judgement, such as when he let my unlicensed 14 year old brother take the wheel across Alberta] it was the end of a long wandering that had seen us living next to the hayloft of a farmhouse in Tirol, swinging into Easter Sunday Mass at San Marco [Venezia] and nearly being arrested for insanely laughing on the train while it was waiting at a station in the Basque region [that story is too hard to explain, you had to be there] in our luggage we were nursing a kefir fungus, reputedly smuggled out of the Caucasus by a Benedictine monk. and if it wasn't, well it's a good story. i'm not sure i want to know where he hid it, though. kefir is a fermented milk drink. legend has it that drinking it will extend your longevity and that if you're a consistent consumer you may aspire to become a Sesquicentenarian. 33 years ago we were drinking kefir in San Francisco. 33 years ago i had a 22 inch waist, long hair, an aversion to shoes and wanted to be an architect. some things have changed. i didn't make it through architecture school [foolishly stormed out after a huge row during a crit session], the waist has sadly become rather sturdier and i've developed an affinity for steel capped boots [especially when drafting cattle] but i still have long hair and i'm still drinking kefir. today with the added luxury of a swirl of maple syrup.

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