Back from the dead: Scientists rebuild the #face of 400-year-old #Polish '#vampire'. A team of scientists has reconstructed #Zosia’s face, revealing the human story buried by supernatural beliefs in an unmarked #cemetery in #Pien, northern #Poland. https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/scientists-rebuild-face-400-year-old-polish-vampire-zosia-rcna178176 #science #archaeology #archeology #reconstruction #anthropology #burial #superstition #sickle #padlock
Scientists rebuild the face of 400-year-old Polish ‘vampire’ Zosia

Buried with a padlock on her foot and an iron sickle across her neck, “Zosia” was never supposed to be able to come back from the dead.

NBC News

Renewed enthusiasm for #knitting (and finishing) the #zosia is that this little pile of stunning gorgeousness arrives in the next few days to make a summer top, and I simultaneously want to start working with it immediately and to maintain the success of my ‘one in, one out’ policy with my #wip /#ufo pile.

Teeeeeeechnically I finished the #nanaimo Cardi, and frogged the wrap I started before casting on another shawl, but it’s the spirit of the thing, isn’t it?

Isn’t it?

Getting tantalisingly close to finishing the #zosia wrap cardigan. (I finished the body weeks ago, and it’s just been a slow slog to raise the enthusiasm to finish the waistband ever since. But a few more days if I can sustain this rate then it’s done.)

I’m realising I do love one thing about circulars especially, and that’s never having to worry where the other needle got too. It’s just there, on the end!

A blessing given my ability to loose EVERYTHING.

So #wipwednesday I catch you at last. My #zosia wrap cardigan and my other blue cardigan that is so quick to knit it already acquired 1.75 sleeves since the photo was taken. Iirc it’s called #nanaimo
I have always avoided chunky yarns because my hands hurt much sooner than with small needle, but the quicker growth compensates magnificently for the bitty progress. #knitting finds a way.