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Sticks
08-01-2009, 07:57 AM
To celebrate the 400th anniversary of the invention of the telescope, 2009 has been designated the international year of Astronomy


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WVJmZmo6kzI&eurl=http://www.astronomy2009.co.uk/&feature=player_embedded

ange7
08-01-2009, 08:20 AM
it's also the International Year of Natural Fibres
http://www.naturalfibres2009.org/en/index.html
and
THE INTERNATIONAL YEAR OF THE SHARK 2009
http://www.year-of-the-shark-2009.org/

so let's combine them by .....
knitting a cool woollen fluffy dice in the shape of lil'sharks. ...aww then we can hang them off our car mirrors. Now to add the astronomy hmmm?
Then drive our cars off a cliff when we realise we're into astronomy. :P

ps kidding...I love astronomy

lily.
08-01-2009, 10:34 AM
We could knit sharks and planets and fashion a windchime-like device (except it wont chime, on account of the planets and sharks being made of wool).



In retrospect, that wasn't a great idea.