Saturday April 30, 2005
Nona has asked what we have next to us when we knit. Her picture, complete with numbers and legend, shows her with all her tools neatly arranged on little trays, drinking red wine from a juice glass and listening to NPR […]
Friday April 29, 2005
My T-shirt front is back up to 105 rows, a bit past where I had to frog before. I have completed the leaves (That’s the part that looks like a zebra face) and begun the blossoms (which may end up looking […]
Thursday April 28, 2005
There were so many interesting responses to yesterday’s post — if you didn’t read them, and if you find the subject interesting, then you should check them out. I woke up yesterday with an allergy attack that had gotten to […]
Wednesday April 27, 2005
“Hannah! Hannah! HANNAH! I’m not going to tell you again!” Oh, yes you are. I’ve only heard that five times now, and I know you are going to say it again in about 3 minutes, tops. I shudder to think […]
Tuesday April 26, 2005
During my knitting time I have been concentrating intently on the intarsia. There’s all the suspense: have I decided correctly which gray squares should count as black and which as white? did I start early enough to fit the entire […]
Tuesday April 26, 2005
Here is the T-shirt, looking as Chanthaboune said rather like an antelope’s face, or maybe by now a zebra. I am trusting that it will, at some point soon, make a dramatic switch from fauna to flora. For those who […]
Monday April 25, 2005
The design emerges. And here is the back. I have seen, on the blogs, people with many ends to weave in on their intarsia designs. I don’t know why they do that. The single thread visible in this picture is […]
Sunday April 24, 2005
The Water Jar is displaying his nice, tidy room. He also uses the word “acorn” to refer to a color. He must have to fight the girls off with a stick. Actually, an old gentleman said that about one of […]
Sunday April 24, 2005
Yesterday morning, I set off with my swatches for the new quilt (below), determined to find the perfect background fabric. The nice man at the quilt shop did not have the perfect fabric. However, he did have new swatches from […]