Today is the anniversary of the death of Elizabeth Zimmerman (Nov. 30, 1999). We owe Elizabeth a lot, because she gave us a lot. In fact, probably her greatest gift was her belief in the talent of today’s knitters. I am sure that few of us would have ventured as far, if it weren’t for […]
Snowy Woods The phrase is perhaps a little trite, even though it comes from one of the greatest plays (Hamlet) written by one of the greatest writers (Shakespeare) of all time. Perhaps we have said it too many times. Maybe that’s because this soliloquy was one of the few that we had actually memorized or
Herm is one of the Channel Islands, one of the smaller Islands. Apparently you can walk across Herm in about 10 minutes. Sixty people live there full time and its main source of revenue is tourism. So Herm has to do a lot of marketing to get people to take the boat from Guernsey to
Well maybe it’s not really pushing; it’s more like thinking really hard about how I am going to add a lovely finish to the pink lace shawl that I am working on. But the ideas are not really taking on any shape, so I am pushing for some inspiration! I have found a lovely stitch
Originally posted Nov 25, 2010 I was concentrating so much on the novel challenge that I forgot to post for two of my favourite days. Nov 25 and Nov 30. Here is a re-post for Nov 25. November 25 is the feast of St. Catherine of Alexandria. In Christian lore, St. Catherine was martyred upon
Originally posted Nov. 24, 2010 On Nov 18, 1883 Sir Sanford Fleming spoiled all the fun – he got North America to adopt Standard Time. As a result we now have boring predictability. Why, because apparently before standard time each railway company (think airports, railways stations, bus and subway platforms today) literally had it’s own
Originally posted November 23, 2010 On Sunday I bought Susan Boyle’s new CD “The Gift”. I wanted to keep her dream alive! And so it seems do a lot of other people, apparently, her new CD sold 318,000 copies in the first week of its release. It also topped the US and UK charts simultaneously.
Originally posted November 22, 2010 I read the other day that they (great thinkers, scientists, surrealists) have been able to stabilize anti-matter for about 10 seconds – long enough for science to study it. Anti-matter, apparently was there at the “Big Bang”. It was the universe as we know it, but with a negative charge
Originally posted November 20, 2010 I always love it when knitting becomes some big time in your face “thing”. I love knitting “bombs” and I love it when advertisers use knitting in their pitches. Years ago Campbell’s soup had billboards with knitted cans of soup and knitted radiators shown graphically in yarns of their iconic
Originally posted November 20, 2010 My youngest – the soon-to-be-18 year old (male) is taking fashion design at school. This wasn’t necessarily by choice – but, because he tends to dress as a “fashion plate,” his guidance teacher suggested that fashion design might suit him – no pun intended. His response, as usual, was –
