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I'm laying the last 2 pieces of my jigsaw puzzle of 1500 pieces! The reflections of the forest and the mountains in the lake made it a particularly hard puzzle. It's good that I'm patient ...
30th November 2021 :
One pair of mittens finished, other than the flip tops, at the moment.
I am over the moon that I've got this far, as it's the first time I've used dpns (double pointed needles) and the first time I'd made mittens like these ones. I have knitted a pair for a baby, years ago, but they were *very* basic ones, with no thumb.
For other knitters
Can I knit up the flip tops and then sew them on afterwards? I'm really having a problem trying to follow the instructions, they're so complicated .......
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Mah-jong is an old Chinese game with pungs, kongs and chows or a special combination.
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The whole of the wall, related to the previous photo:
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I zoomed through this little quilt, probably didn’t pay as much attention to detail as I would’ve liked, definitely left out some key elements that came to mind after I’d sewn it up and generally would do things differently next time. Some things. Some things I’d leave the same: like the Echino and linen fabrics I love to work with and the navy and natural colour scheme with touches of yellow and green [perfect for this little boy].
“You must know that I am made of death, from head to foot, and it is a corpse who loves you and adores you and will never, never leave you!”
Here in BC it's been raining for the past two days.. so depressing :(
Soo looking forward to summer though.. next week I am free!!!!
It's like some kind of quilting miracle -- I actually finished putting all the little squares together to make Beaks Street! This was a McCalls Quilting "Vintage View" pattern from several years ago, called "Streets of Philadelphia". I started it fully putting forth that this was the kind of quilt project that never, ever, ever gets even close to being finished. Well, now it's really close. There will be three solid borders added, but that's nothing after hand-piecing 2,401 two-inch squares.
--Schn.
As promissed: photos of my new studio in the attic of our house. There are still some things to finish (like hanging the curtains and painting the stairs) but I can work there :)
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I have one more class of stone carving with Willow. I need the teacher's direction on finishing details. It's been really fun and I've learned so much!
TED: "Only a handful of pieces left. Now, shall I save the last piece for Dad to complete the puzzle, or shall I do it myself?"
Shari Altman, Gracia Haby & Louise Jennison
A new zine almost finished.
200 pale lemons, cut and waiting.
(We're getting closer, Shari. We'll be ready this Thursday if all goes to plan.)
To see more photos of this garden including before and after shots, please look at the set titled, Contemplative Garden at my Native Design flickrstream
New paint and new door. The door hides the washer/dryer and water heater.
I'm going to paint the other door frames white, but not sure about the doors. The lighting will be changed too!
Looks like the farmer has almost completed ploughing this field and then he'll be looking forward to the next harvest!!
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good things today
1. trimmed the quilt, sewed binding to the front and started hand sewing to the back!
2. went for craniosacral therapy and the horrific pain I have had in my back for a couple of weeks is now gone! I hope I can sleep tonight. I already made another appointment so it won't be too long. I want to stay ahead of it.
3. we are supposed to get snow tonight!
mahogany hinges with stainless steel bolts, sliding mahogany latch with manzanita handles
gate fence and arbor of cedar
The gate, fence and arbor are made of cedar with mahogany (*the first part of the fence, along with the fence posts, were installed by a local fencing company. They did not follow the drawings and the fence turned out way too low. They did not finish the job, so my husband, Tim, agreed to help out by adding a section on to the fence and every post. He extended the height of the fence by 9 inches (the new sections visible in these photos are what Tim added) Tim also built both gates and the custom arbor over this gate. I love his artistry!
To see more photos of this garden, please look at the set titled, Contemplative Garden at my Native Design flickrstream
“Joy is the feeling of grinning inside.”
~Melba Colgrove
I hope to finish this early this week.
This looks so happy and joyful; I thought I would send it to you to make you smile.
Be Filled with Joy, Marsha
Framing something in a mini embroidery hoop - I borrowed a jar of mustard from the fridge to help hold the felt in place while the craft glue dried.
You can see the finished project here:
bugsandfishes.blogspot.com/2012/02/how-to-embroidered-hea...
Ah, yet another unsuccessful shoot. This wasn't AT ALL what I was aiming for, as it were.
January 31st is my new friend Cecilia's birthday, and she wears warm neutral colors really well, so I thought I'd knit this great scarf for her- from a pattern found in elemmaciltur's photostream- in this fabulous hand-dyed dark green Manos de Uruguay yarn I had left over from another project. (get used to it- I'm the queen of the run on sentence). Coincidentally, my birthday is February 2nd (Ground Hog's Day- don't get me started on how awful it was to be a fat child whose birthday was that auspicious day), so I had this concept to entitle the shot "almost finished" as a double entendre about the project and the ending of my 53rd year.
BUT... the (I thought) great idea was to shoot up from the floor with a skew shot that would capture all of me but in a wildly disproportionate way. Well... it DID do that, but every shot I tried was essentially an unintelligible photo of my foot with nothing else making any sense whatsoever. OK, scratch that idea.
Next I thought I would take the shot from behind and above, with the same concept, except my head would be the foreground. Tried that about 10 shots, but re-setting the manual self-timer for so many mediocre shots got real old- especially since I was trying to keep knitting between the pushing of the buttons- for the verity of the shot. Nothing even vaguely useable.
Finally I settled on a more ordinary shot from the front. Only problem is... I didn't want to use the same backdrop I'd used on one of the previous shots. Now HERE is the ultimate problem. My housemate's father died recently and John brough a significant portion of the family furniture back home. To a house already full of furniture. So at the moment, the only rooms that aren't full of furniture floor-to-ceiling are my bedroom and my studio. Kinda hard to get differing vistas for shots when they're all taken in the same small, cramped, overstuffed, badly lit, cluttered space.
No matter what I did from the front, it looked too much like one of the earlier shots. Sigh. So finally, in desperation, I pulled the tripod so close to the chair that I was straddling the legs, and took a few more. This was the best of them. Still a bit cluttered- "noise" is what the professionals would say, eh?- but a little different. And I like the way the angle down makes my face look thinner than it is. Kinda the booby prize bonus.
Ironic, isn't it, that I have these really precise concepts, but always end up with the vague, fuzzy photos. Still a lotta room for improvement.
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