Monthly Archives: July 2006

Obsession…a display in pictures

Today’s Feature: Projects On The Needles
(or at least on stitch holders waiting to get back on the needles)

First up…the Trellis scarf. For ongoing saga about this bit of harrowing lace, please go back to the very first post in this blog.

In second place is the current contender for the title of “Oldest [...]

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Guess what???!!!!

I bought a digital camera!!!!!
(thank you I AM happy to have joined everyone else in the 21st century)
And without further ado, I will attempt to post some pics here.
First…spinning enthusiasm!
The aforementioned yellow and violet rovings of goodness

Spun and plied…I had a feeling it wasn’t going to be as pretty as the roving. I’ll post a [...]

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Love at first steam

Violet and yellow. Whenever I walk past a garden with yellow and purple flowers I instantly fall in love. So a couple of days ago I handpainted some roving in brilliant violet and sun yellow and its absolutely PERFECT.
Then I had Madeline dye a bit whatever colours she wanted and she chose blue [...]

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Boated and burnt

It isn’t quite summer until I’ve spent some “quality” time on my parents’ big boat with the kids. I refer to this experience as being the filling in an intergenerational sandwich where the slices of bread are REALLY thick and I pretty much consist of a thin layer of peanut butter. This not terribly relaxing [...]

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