Sheep Go Round from Fiber Trends The weekend papers always provide some interesting and esoteric reading – nothing compared to the British “Sunday” papers – but still good. So, I loved reading a discussion, in the Toronto Star, of the King James version of The Bible which is still considered the gold standard, not just, […]
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
Wall of Yarn – Singing colours I have to believe that Leonard Cohen is the hottest 76 year-old on the planet. He is just about to end a two and a half year tour and judging by the reviews he is/was amazing!!! There is a group on Ravelry dedicated to knitting and to the poetry
Snowy Woods from Red Bird Knits 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
Piglet said, in the Disney version of Winnie the Pooh anyway, maybe even in the real version, “I don’t mind the leaves that are leaving; it’s the leaves that are coming….” He was raking on a rather blustery day. Today is a blustery day and my garden is full of leaves from the Maple and
The two animals closest to a knitter’s heart, I have to believe, are the cat and the sheep. There are great references in literature to the lion and the lamb and then there is, of course, the Tyger. Cats are the witches’ familiars – the form that witches take when they want to disappear. Some
In checking my spelling of Amaryllis, I discovered that it is also the name of the shepherdess in a love poem by Virgil. How appropriate! This is the intricate layering of Art and Nature, yarn and knitting. I also found another pattern that made me think of being wrapped in a flower. At the right
