Garden Holly 2010 Well Holly is or can be holy depending on your interpretation of the language. There is this blurring between words, languages and dialects. The great castle in Edinburgh – Holyrood – is pronounced “hollyrood” – which is possibly a doric form of haly ruid – or holy cross. On the other hand, […]
Fish Wall Hanging from Lucy Neatby Always being one to extend celebrations as long as possible, I embraced Tom Bawcock’s Eve – it’s an early start to Christmas partying. This is an event that is celebrated in a tiny fishing village in Cornwall, UK. The village is Mousehole pronounced “Mowzel” and every Dec 23, villagers
Argyle Gloves from Le Tissier Apparently the brown car is back. That is, brown, as a colour for cars, is back. Is this a late 20’s or early 30’s thing? Brown coloured cars were popular both during the great depression and in the 70’s, which apparently, sported a number of brown cars, and I guess,
Streaming Leaf Scarf from Fiber Trends ….an app as lovely as a tree. I was just reading about a fellow in NYC who used a database of city info to develop an app that gives you information about any tree in NYC. Well, at least the trees from the city’s database. So you could be
Sivia Harding’s Moonshadow ….would be as white…maybe, maybe not. Actually a few years ago it was very green and warmish. There was no snow, no skiing and well it looked like the vernal equinox. I wrote about it then. Here’s the link. http://divineknits-infiknit.blogspot.com/2006/12/oh-solstice-my-solstice.html So this year it is quite different. There’s lots of snow and
Wedgewoord Knitted Teacup from Infiknit I was reading a review of mobile phones and apps on the weekend and the article noted that Microsoft (Bill Gates and all) actually had an operating system for hand held devices in the mid 1990s. They obviously decided not to pursue the idea of mini computers at that time,
Baby Bears from Fiber Trends I always love reading missives from those who edit and review books, since they have to have a greater command of the language than anyone else because they critique people who use language to a very high degree to start with. So I loved reading in the Sunday Star these
Norwegian Mittens The Druids have taken up residence, in the house, once again. Yes, we have brought in “the tree” which will be, the Christmas tree. I love Christmas Trees, partly because I love trees in general; but I also love an occasion to bring a tree into the house and decorate it (i.e. worship
Cloths of Heaven from Queen Anne’s Lace Actually it is craft a poem and it is a new group that has just started on Ravelry – Dec 11, 2010. The object is to submit a design (or drawing or recipe) inspired by a poem. There will be prizes awarded each month; but you don’t have
Mabon from GoddessKnits What is it about the words, wind and wild that are so rich. I think of titles that use these terms and each phrase seems to have taken on a presence of its own – Gone with the Wind, Inherit the Wind, Whistle Down the Wind, to name a few. Again terms,
