MAKE-LEARN-GIVE: Fourth Week of October

This week has been brought to you by pop culture. 

I MADE a lace shawl based on one I saw on TV:
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I LEARNED to play the Hobbity theme from Lord of the Rings on the tin whistle, which is way more interesting than playing scales. (This was the twelfth take:)
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I GAVE my beloved Ravenclaw scarf to a younger woman.  It will now have a long life keeping someone else warm and nerdy.  In memoriam:
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MAKE-LEARN-GIVE: First week of October

This week I MADE a little baby blanket out of leftover wool:

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I LEARNED that hovercraft are actually in commercial use!  I had previously thought they were the domain of hobbyists, Scrapheap Challenge, and evil geniuses who live in swamps, but you can take a 130-passenger hovercraft between Portsmouth and the Isle of Wight
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I GAVE Helen the cake tins I hadn't used in the past year, which has shifted the storage problem from my house to hers.
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