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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Out with the Louisiana license, in with the District. Now people in LA can wonder if I’m giving them a fake i.d., instead of the other way around. Since it took two days, four 45 minute bus rides, and 1.5 hours plus 6 minutes in the DMV itself, to get the thing, I got a […]
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 […]
~Full of remorse, the french press cozy waited for the mailman to bring the replacement carafe~
Made another cozy to test pattern, finished it, sewed all of the buttons on but one, housemate justly needled about unavailability of press, picked up to sew last button on after evening of wine and song, dropped press on floor, […]
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 […]