By admin on Jul 30, 2010 in knit, knitting, sock knitting | 4 Comments
I don’t really but who cares. I was in Sausalito last week and I checked out a new LYS on my way to the beach. At the Raverly meet up a few months ago, I had won a gift card to Bluebird Yarn & Fiber Crafts and I’m sorry I don’t have any photos to [...]
By admin on Jul 24, 2010 in art | 1 Comment
My Monday afternoon Methods professor, the eminently esteem-able Dr. Eric Engdahl, gave me and my art cohorts an assignment last week – to create a work inspired by the artist Andy Goldsworthy. I hadn’t even heard of Andy Goldsworthy before last week but I’m so glad I know who he is now. I’m also grateful [...]
By admin on Jul 20, 2010 in california, photography | 3 Comments
Kind of odd this morning that I happened to be driving down Valley View when I spotted hundreds of goats on the hill next to the road. Well it *looked* like hundreds but was probably less than a hundred all munching peacefully on the dried grass. I guesstimate that there must have been at least [...]
By admin on Jul 14, 2010 in knit, knitting, knitting pattern, lace knitting | 4 Comments
I actually finished this scarf quite some time ago – on May 24 say my Ravelry records - but only recently found a model whose neck was worthy of this cotton/bamboo blend. Special thanks to Maria for wearing the scarf in what turned out to be a chilly summer day in Concord, California – it [...]
By admin on Jul 7, 2010 in instructions, literature | 1 Comment
Homework, homework, homework! That’s all I do these days. It’s pretty dull, I tell ‘ya, and the knitting has been next to nil. Hang in there folks. There’s only four more weeks to go (of the summer session) and then I should have more time for the things I love most. Summer is the slow [...]