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I couldn’t help sharing this one.

I found it on the Macworld blog (I’m a Mac Nerd). See the lead in to the article below and read the entire article at MacWorld.

“Chocolate printer is here; foodies celebrate”

Editor’s Note: The following article is reprinted from the Geek Tech blog at PCWorld.com.

“If you’re a big chocoholic, you might have dreamed of swimming in a sea of chocolate, or at least having a never ending supply. While neither of those are likely to happen, the University of Exeter in the UK has created something just as cool: a 3D printer that prints with chocolate.”

What would you print?

I would like a chocolate spinning wheel so I can snack without having to stop spinning. I’d have to figure out what parts I could eat and still keep the structure in tact……perhaps some extra decorative spindles could be added to my chocolate wheel for safe snacking. Would be perfect for the Tour de Fleece!

Natalie Servant, of Natalie Servant Designs, has designed a stunning summer shawl with Rocky Mountain Dyeworks Bow Falls Finerging in “Sunflower” called Sunflower Field Shawl.

I dyed this yarn at Natalie’s request in April. She’d been dreaming and thinking of the fields of France and so I dyed vineyard, poppy and sunflower colourways for her. I love hearing from designers with a specific colour request – its a creative challenge and it stimulates my imagination as I try to capture the essence of an idea in colour applied to a skein of yarn.

All of the original “Sunflower” colourways have sold out. I have dyed “Sunflower II” which has more variation and the bright yellow is touched with a bit of green and brown. I will redye “Sunflower” when I can get some undyed stock again (see note about Canada Post below). I love the stems up the middle of the shawl. And Natalie tells me you can also knit it without the middle section so that it looks like one giant sunflower. I feel sheer joy when I see this shawl. Its raining here again. It feels like its been raining the entire month of June and seeing the photo of this shawl on my computer makes me feel the light and warmth of summer.

I will be reskeining and packagaing “Sunflower II” this week. If you are local and want to see a skein, let me know. Otherwise, in Canada, we wait for our postal strike to end. I have looked at shipping Greyhound and Fed Ex and both are prohibitive for yarn sales. Greyhound has raised their prices these last two years because of gas price increases, and they are no longer affordable.