My favorite month. Although the wind has not with frosty fingers punished my hair, as yet. Due to September having been far cooler here in the mid-Atlantic.
There was a period where you couldn’t walk here without stepping on volumes of Heidegger, but I finally finished that huge paper, with some help from Robert Frost. If […]
I ran down to Eastern Market before Aquinas class this morning, to buy the appropriate crochet hook to finish my Lotus. A nice chat with sensible women at the store provided good contrast to clever Thomistic arguments I heard and made later that afternoon.
Back home, I persuaded Sister to take my picture.
It actually looks nice […]
Been sick. Mainly, I have pictures of new possessions, rather than of accomplishments.
The above is my January Zen String Club, 80% merino and 20% tussah silk. Very pretty. But first I had to get this off the bobbin:
Which is my accomplishment. (Spunky Club January, Icelandic wool, ‘Snow Squall,’ about worsted weight.) Other possessions include some […]
What is it about spinning? You make something so small, so narrow, something that will be lost in a few stitches tomorrow of something completely different. But it pulls things together, and is precise, even when you aren’t. Witness:
Spunky Eclectic, Club, December, ‘Party Dress’. I wanted to make a felted bowl, but I […]
Merino/tencel 50/50 came in the mail from Zen String, beautifully dyed, braided, packaged, with a postcard I used to record my sceneage from the Twelfth Night party.
But it is a bitch, bitch, bitch to spin on my poor Louet S17, at least to the fineness I, full of hubris, attempted. I have spun half of […]