Posted in All, Knitting, Weaving on Jan 3rd, 2012 Comments Off
And, here you have it — a year in yarn! (Finished objects, that is). Click on any image for more project details. Four of these projects were started and finished in 2011. Four were carried over from the previous year. And one (the crochet cable cardi, which I’d bought as a kit in 2007) [...]
Posted in Diversion, Misc, Photo Op on Nov 13th, 2011 Comments Off
Not a comforting warning from the ATM at an actual bank!
Posted in Diversion, Misc, Photo Op on Nov 12th, 2011 Comments Off
I’ve never had such an elevated latte before… Taipei 101:
Weaving is fun and rhythmic — once you have the loom set up. And, you can’t really set up a loom until you have the parameters of your project pretty well nailed up, including the yarns for warp and weft, as well as the sett and specific threading pattern. While you can vary the weft [...]
Posted in All, Diversion, Food on Feb 13th, 2011 Comments Off
Haggis, that is. I’ve heard haggis described as “a sheep, turned inside out”. Traditionally consisting of all the bits of a sheep you weren’t going to serve up in recognizable form (the “offal”) made into a sausage and cooked in the sheep’s stomach. Well, you asked. And before you get disgusted, set down that forkful [...]
Posted in All, Diversion, Misc on Jan 30th, 2011 Comments Off
I have long struggled with finding the right way to keep track of calendars, lists, plans, etc, while on the go. I was an “early adopter” of the whole “Personal Digital Assistant” (PDA) thing. I had one of the early (though not earliest) Apple Newtons, and bought a final generation Newton MessagePad 2100 in 1998, [...]
How do you spell “frustration”? Two runners up: half-baked iPhone blogging software and craptastic (Future) Internet connections. But, the real winner for frustration — being 5,000 miles away from the next ball of yarn for the knitting project which is on a Christmas delivery deadline :-(
Posted in All, Diversion, Food on Nov 21st, 2010 Comments Off
So glad someone of influence reads the blog, and got the memo… (though I still did not find any coconut milk)
One of these years (evidently, not this one), I’m going to get better at starting meal planning from what’s available, instead of working from recipes and engaging in elaborate scavenger hunts to find the set ingredients. Now, it’s not the south of France or anything, but there is a summer Farmer’s Market on Grand Manan, [...]
I need to sew in the ends, cut off the test strip, wet finish this thing and take better pictures. But I can’t resist sharing a preview! My first weaving project, off the loom. It is very much a first project, with all the expected mistakes and shortcomings. But, it was fun! And, I think [...]
Posted in All, Diversion, Photo Op on Jul 26th, 2010 Comments Off
Amenities in an Amsterdam hotel: shampoo, conditioner and hand lotion in “mood therapy”. Moods are: “calm”, “happy” and “alive”. I must confess, I had not really considered the state of being not dead was especially a mood, before!
Posted in All, Knitting, Photo Op on Jul 15th, 2010 Comments Off
I laid the washed swatch out to dry in the sunspot. It was mere seconds until the cat was there to “help”.
Someone else quite happy with where she is right now…
Posted in All, Diversion, Misc, Photo Op on May 22nd, 2010 Comments Off
Well, yesterday, it was that time again – time for a different view on my way to work. (Luckstone Quarry lookout, W&OD bike trail) A momentary aberration in my daily commute — Bike to Work Day! (Or, as I like to think of it — “Guilt-free eating day” ;-) ). Yesterday’s ride was 19mi [...]
Routing courtesy Icelandic volcano ash cloud…
Leesburg VA reports 27.5″ of snow from the storm. I’m still miles away on a different continent, but, here are the reports I’ve gotten from home — digging out. 08h00 Sunday, February 7, 2010 – the sun does come up, post-snowpocalypse 16h00 Sunday, February 7, 2010 – dug out, to the road, anyway
Here’s how the current winter storm is playing out in the Washington DC area: Reporting from the LA Times (!). “As of late afternoon, a total of 32.4 inches was recorded at Dulles International Airport outside of Washington, according to the National Weather Service. That two-day accumulation topped the previous record, compiled during the blizzard [...]
And, weaving fun was had, for sure! So, the first thing off the loom is not “a piece” or really even an “FO”. It’s just a sampler, warp that I filled with weft as I was playing around to get to know what this weaving thing is all about. I won’t even begin to discuss [...]
Oooh, lookey! Another weekend! More Quality Time with the Baby Wolf. I managed to thread the heddles on the shafts, in the appropriate order, and get the warp threads actually attached to the front and back beams. And — treadled! Don’t look now, but this warp is ready to be woven!
Posted in All, Knitting, Weaving on Jan 19th, 2010 Comments Off
On the weekend, I finally had the opportunity to spend some Quality Time with the Baby Wolf. I measured 120 warp threads (in 2 colours), and got as far as getting the reed sleyed. Still a ways to go — have to thread the heddles on the shafts, in the appropriate order, and get the [...]
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