In my office this morning I have a new friend– the first knitted dinosaur I made from Jean Greenhowe’s dinosaur knitting patterns. I mostly knitted this dinosaur on Thanksgiving Day, and I just fnished him up last night. I’m quite proud– I’m really a novice knitter, but I think the dinosaur turned out quite well despite a few mistakes here and there. I’m not exactly sure of the dinosaur species. The knitting book calls this dinosaur pattern “The Pink Spotted Dinosaur,” so I suppose my creation could be called the “Purple and Yellow Spotted Dinosaur.” I’m not quite finished yet– I still want to knit this little guy a miniature Christmas scarf. After I finish decking out Purple and Yellow Spotted Dinosaur for the holidays, I’ll move on to the T-Rex or the flying dinosaur. However, I might not have much time for knitting until Christmas… much work to do!
Here’s a few more pictures:
Georneys 
Wow, that was fast! Looks both cute and punkish. My sister knits a lot. Maybe I can get her to make me one of these critters.
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Thanks, Matt! By the way, you can order the Jean Greenhowe patterns from Frugal Knitting House in the USA. The dinosaur patterns are in the Toy booklet.
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Random number gaeirnteon is important to skeptics. Most tests of paranormal powers depend on a randomly-selected target. It is not hard to generate a truly random choice if you know how. Unfortunately, ESP investigators have tended not to have the electronic or physics expertise to build good target selectors. If the targets are not randomly selected then one cannot predict what results should be obtained in the presence or absence of a paranormal effect. This makes the experiment and its results meaningless. (I have lectured to skeptics’ groups on this subject.)Pseudo-random sequences are easy to generate but, though able to pass some tests for randomness, are completely predetermined. Their statistical properties contain traps into which well-meaning ESP investigators have fallen. It is so easy to generate a really random sequence (I have published a design for a pocket telepathy tester that uses such a generator.) that there is no excuse for using anything else.When I wanted a quick and reproducible set of random numbers for a demonstration I took the digits of pi published in the millions by Project Gutenberg. AFAIK no one has proved that they are random but so far they have passed all the tests.
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so lovely. looks cute and punkish.
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Wow,so cool!how to make that? will you write a post for it? I want to make it too!
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Is the dinosaur weinarg regular glasses? I mean if they were sun glasses that would totally work, but regular glasses? Are they reading glasses, it does appear to have a line in them like bifocals… so this is a dinosaur in its golden years? This design pattern only raises more questions.
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Must join Ravelry.com!!!
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I love it! So creative. Will it go on your Xmas tree?
Like mother, daughter and granddaughter…. you carry on the knitting tradition very well.
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