Text(iles). Finally.
Alert long-time readers among you may have noticed that I have not mentioned knitting, or sewing, or embroidery, since May. Except for that part about how the Russian mob stole my embroidery project at Victoria station on account of it was traveling with my laptop.
This is because there were no textiles between May and this week. No knitting. No sewing. No embroidery. When the Russian mob got the embroidery project, it was ok by me, cause I hadn't worked on it the entire time I was in England, and I didn't have any time for it anyway. (Those of you who were worried that it was the beaded angel, or the millennium angels, or the lewd Elizabethan boxers, nah, it wasn't.) I had started, at some point this summer, an embroidered bookmark from Stonehenge, which has the advantage of being very tiny, but I hadn't gotten very far, even on that.
Such a long dry spell. What a summer.
But now, though there's still a lot to do, Bear's Retreat is livable. The kitchen is put together, and I can often find the pots and pans I'm looking for. The bedrooms are comfortable and contain books, bedding, and light. What more do you need. The sewing room has been put together. The family room in the basement is even more or less put together.
And hence, I have spent the last two nights sitting on the sofa knitting.
Yes, knitting.
Now, I know I'm no longer on the knitting blog ring, having taken myself off it as that was the only honorable thing to do, since I so rarely discuss knitting any more, but this is still a text(ile) blog, darn it!
So it's good to have text(iles).
And not only have I been knitting, I've actually been knitting on Starmore's "Queen Anne's Lace," the project I have dissed several times earlier. Also, I have enjoyed it. It's sort of meditative. This, I gather, is due to the complete lack of strong differentiation between one color band and the next. They flow into each other, subtly. Really subtly. Much more subtly than in general I admire in a project. But hey, what the hell. I'm enjoying it at the moment.
Over the course of moving, I've given away or marked for sale many many projects that I don't think I'm going to do in the less than 50 years I have left on the planet. (I'd like to thank you, oh members of the Russian mob who were operating at Victoria Station the day I was going through -- you changed my life. Projects I don't truly want to do. Why complete them. Why indeed. What a concept.) That's freed me up to enjoy getting through the ones I've got. And, much as I diss "Queen Anne's Lace," I actually want to do it. Therefore. I'm keeping it.
Maybe we'll get some pictures later, if Sam can find the digital camera.
And in the meantime, I'll start selling off things I don't want.
First up! The original yarns to make Starmore's "Jane Seymour," in the brown and gold colorway! Ha! Ha ha! You may start placing your guesses, in the comments section, as to how much that's going to pull in on eBay.
Heh, heh.
This is because there were no textiles between May and this week. No knitting. No sewing. No embroidery. When the Russian mob got the embroidery project, it was ok by me, cause I hadn't worked on it the entire time I was in England, and I didn't have any time for it anyway. (Those of you who were worried that it was the beaded angel, or the millennium angels, or the lewd Elizabethan boxers, nah, it wasn't.) I had started, at some point this summer, an embroidered bookmark from Stonehenge, which has the advantage of being very tiny, but I hadn't gotten very far, even on that.
Such a long dry spell. What a summer.
But now, though there's still a lot to do, Bear's Retreat is livable. The kitchen is put together, and I can often find the pots and pans I'm looking for. The bedrooms are comfortable and contain books, bedding, and light. What more do you need. The sewing room has been put together. The family room in the basement is even more or less put together.
And hence, I have spent the last two nights sitting on the sofa knitting.
Yes, knitting.
Now, I know I'm no longer on the knitting blog ring, having taken myself off it as that was the only honorable thing to do, since I so rarely discuss knitting any more, but this is still a text(ile) blog, darn it!
So it's good to have text(iles).
And not only have I been knitting, I've actually been knitting on Starmore's "Queen Anne's Lace," the project I have dissed several times earlier. Also, I have enjoyed it. It's sort of meditative. This, I gather, is due to the complete lack of strong differentiation between one color band and the next. They flow into each other, subtly. Really subtly. Much more subtly than in general I admire in a project. But hey, what the hell. I'm enjoying it at the moment.
Over the course of moving, I've given away or marked for sale many many projects that I don't think I'm going to do in the less than 50 years I have left on the planet. (I'd like to thank you, oh members of the Russian mob who were operating at Victoria Station the day I was going through -- you changed my life. Projects I don't truly want to do. Why complete them. Why indeed. What a concept.) That's freed me up to enjoy getting through the ones I've got. And, much as I diss "Queen Anne's Lace," I actually want to do it. Therefore. I'm keeping it.
Maybe we'll get some pictures later, if Sam can find the digital camera.
And in the meantime, I'll start selling off things I don't want.
First up! The original yarns to make Starmore's "Jane Seymour," in the brown and gold colorway! Ha! Ha ha! You may start placing your guesses, in the comments section, as to how much that's going to pull in on eBay.
Heh, heh.
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