It’s the slowest rush job you’ve run into lately. On Saturday Anne came over, and the three of us went to her friend Marcy’s house to look at furniture that Marcy wants to sell before moving to Hoboken. We’re going to buy a lot of it for the house in Maine — coffee table, side …
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Celebrate Newton
So Zum Gali Gali Rubber Stamps went to the Celebrate Newton crafts sale yesterday. We didn’t pull in as much business as we had at the same event last year, but it was a very successful day for us anyway. We were right next to where the musical groups were performing. First on was a …
Felting Murphy’s Law?
Is there a Murphy’s Law about felting? That woolen things that you don’t want to felt will, and ones you want to felt won’t? I tried cooking my big mittens this evening, wringing and mushing them, and dumping them in ice water, but they don’t seem to have felted. I’ll settle for having knit mittens …
Constructive at work
Finally, after three weeks and a little, I’m starting to do something constructive at my new job. Under close supervision, I fixed one bug! The guy (Ken) who was looking over my shoulder knew just about what to do to fix it, but I did search one more time for a variable and found a …
Big mittens – all knit
I finished knitting those big mittens this evening. It started going very quickly, partly because I’m getting more effective at continental style knitting. While I like the idea of two tubes (socks, sleeves, or mittens) on two circular needles, I think I’m faster with double-pointed needles, at least for fair isle stuff. With four strands …
More fun than a power sander
Some time last year Charley salvaged a bureau from the trash. It looked just like one he had had as a kid, a ’70s Scandinavian type design chest that we had got at Children’s Workbench. This one was on the curb, had lots of loose joints, and had “JUNK” spray painted in red on the …
Small amount of growth
I brought in to work a poster for the Celebrate Newton crafts fair (Sunday Dec 4) that we’re taking Zum Gali Gali Rubber Stamps to (and however many homemade knitting needles I can have by then) to put up on a bulletin board there. As I was looking for a push pin to put the …
Coptic Binding Thread Estimate
Chris Fitzgerald, one of my eraser carving net friends, sent me this email about the coptic binding. I didn’t realize until after I posted that bit in the “Big Mittens” post, how good the blockquotes look with this blog template. Here they go again! I don’t know how often you check the comments on your …
Big mittens
… are what I’m working on. Anne at She Ewe Knits wrote me a while ago (after I thanked her for her web page of directions about handling long floats in fair isle work) My favourite project — make very large mittens, loosely knit with 100% wool (just the pull on type no cuff ribbing …
Falmouth Trip
When the retired Newton art teachers got together with their old boss earlier this year, they planned to meet again for lunch at a Chinese restaurant in Falmouth. That was for today. We drove down there about an hour earlier than we had to, so as to have a little time birding around Falmouth. Siders …