I believe the warm weather has finally arrived!! Here is a lovely picture of another of Lynette (Le Tissier)’s painted yarn projects. It’s the Baltic Sea stole from Fiber Trends – painted. It looks like a flower garden or as Lynette’s says – a meadow!! Lynette explains more in her blog post. I think that […]
I thought that I would share this photo with you. It’s a picture that was sent to Lynette Meek (Le Tissier Designs) of her winning entry in the Vogue Knitting Live contest last January. This is the wrap and the model is also wearing the matching shift – albeit over several other layers. More pictures
OK, it’s rained for 40 days and I don’t have a boat, let alone an Ark. I also happen to have 3 cats not 2 and they are all neutered so I would not even have a ticket onto an Ark in my area should it happen to float by. But I am not going
I did say earlier that weddings were all about lace and didn’t Kate Middleton look lovely in her lace accented wedding gown! I loved the understated elegance of the whole affair and I loved the fact that there was very little “fuss” made about the fact that Kate is/was a “commoner.” I know that she
Shary Boyle I am fascinated with lace and lovely lace trimmed garments. This is why I was so taken with the work of Shary Boyle who has created, in porcelain, some of the most amazing sculpted figures trimmed in lace. In fact some of Shary’s “people” are actually dressed in real lace that has been
I just had to share with you a closet passion of mine (shhhhh – doll’s clothes). OK there are people out there who like miniatures – really! Some people even have children because they are so cute and so little:) So what’s wrong with some quick and easy projects that play with lovely stitches and
Friday was a beautiful sunny day – almost warm and 1. I have started my next chapter of “getting things together” by buying an apple. I read in the paper that a study in bone density for woman accidently showed that woman who ate 75g of dried apple slices a day had a 23% drop
Well it is maybe time for a re-assessment of my lucky day diary. I started my diary in January and the idea was to try it for a month…to see how it might add a little luck…maybe I should say add a little more luck to my life. I was thinking Lottery win – several
Gauguin Sweater I have a book by Ruth Herring and Karen Manners, entitled Knitting Masterpieces, that has taken many of the great works of art and translated them into knitted sweaters. I love this book. I’m not sure that it is in print anymore; it was published in 1987. I have always wanted to “do”
Every once in a while you need a shot in the arm to get you back on a creative track – at least I do anyway. Well into my lap this morning fell an article about Roberto Capucci. Capucci says that he is more artist than dress designer, even though he has costumed some of
