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 […]
The pope-given holiday this past week allowed me time to cut out a dress for Croquet. Surely planning what to make for a particular event is the most pleasant sort of clothing-planning of all. The specificity of an event’s place and time, its magnitude, what Jenny will be wearing–all this makes for miles of […]
But first, a new possession.
Capezio leather T-strap character shoes. I finally threw out my first pair, bought in 1997 for theater camp in Boston, which lasted me through the trials and tribulations of The Waltz Committee in college. But the insoles were crackling into pieces, the heels worn down, and the arches broken (though some […]
I’m in the kitchen with Hiram and Hayden, and I’m telling them how Heidegger wasn’t a Nazi, which I learned for the fifth time in class tonight. Sheesh. Also I’m trying to figure out what size to make my Shopping Tunic. It’s not as easy as it might seem.
My needles came! They are large. I […]
Yesterday I was waiting for the mailman.
He didn’t come through, but I did make this hat. Here is a closeup of sorts:
It is Twinkle’s Aspen Hat, which was just a sign of how much I wanted the mailman to come and bring my US #19 15mm circular knitting needles so I could make my damn […]
I’m not sure why I’m mad at the internet, but I am. It just keeps proving that I was a little ahead of my time. When I first started using it to look up stuff about sewing, knitting, spinning, etc., there just wasn’t a boatload or even a tablespoon of help, patterns, photographs, old instructions, […]
I reworked my Croquet dress pattern from last year to make the silhouette slightly better, as well as the bands at the top smaller:
It’s the first time I’ve really just gone at a pattern with my scissors to make a line better, like I know it ought to be. I really like how the […]
I never got to mention my celebrity meeting.
Two weeks ago, H. and I went to San Francisco for his cousin’s wedding. While there, we spent some time with J.W. and the MOMA. While H. and J. had a discussion about Klee, I hung out a while in the room with the Yves Klein corner (hence […]
Thanksgiving, 2005, Charleston, West Virginia, “Mr. Sewing Machine” on Hwy 25, which goes by the river: I bought my 1960s Singer, model 457 Stylist Zig Zag. According to the man, they sold a lot of this model to schools for Home Ec and so forth–very much built to last, with metal, not plastic innards. (The […]
When I got married, someone gave me a sheet. I’m not sure who it was, and it’s probably for the best that I don’t remember. This is because it was a very nice king size flat sheet, without any of the other trappings that make a sheet useful, like a fitted sheet, for instance. But […]