Drive by Blogging: Binary Stars
Once upon a time, while I was wandering around Ravelry , I came across the wonderful pattern that is Megan Wood's Vincent Cuff . The Vincent Cuff is a wide beaded bracelet designed to remind one of Vincent Van Gogh's Starry Night knit on lace weight yarn with size 0000 needles. When I saw it, I immediately thought of two people - my Doctor Who loving friend Pammie and my Starry Night loving mother. So I ordered some deep blue lace weight yarn and some itsy bitsy pointy needles and picked up beads at the craft store. And then created a labor of love. 1. For the first one, I didn't have access to a color printer as mine having died after some toddler who shall not be named fed it cheddar. Printers don't eat cheddar. It kills them. Poor printer - death by cheddar. I copied each row with colored pencils onto grid paper. 2. The beads then had to be strung one at a time in the right order. (For the record, the best bead needle is...