My new favorite film clip – I haven’t seen the whole film yet, but would love to! – is from the 1943 RKO movie “Mr. Lucky”. Cary Grant stars as “A gambler [who] has plans to swindle money from a charity program, but starts to have second thoughts when he falls for a rich society girl.” (imdb) The knitting part… Continue Reading Knitting in classic films
Continue reading →I am reminded of Thanksgiving dinner… the preparation takes forEVER, but the actual event is over before you know it. That’s how it feels, looking at my finished Paua Shell Tank. I started the spinning shortly after purchasing the fiber in late summer 2006. The fiber is 50% Tencel / 50% Merino, dyed in the Dragonfly colorway by Bonkers Handmade… Continue Reading Paua Shell Tank
Continue reading →It has been a month now since my weekend dye workshop, but it’s still worth writing about! The “100 Colours Plus Dye Class” was sponsored by the Wichita Weavers, Spinners and Dyers’ Guild and taught by Linda Burt of Oklahoma. Several of the 16 or 18 attendees showed up at the very picturesque Stagecoach Ranch near Sedan, Kansas on Friday… Continue Reading Belated Dye Workshop Report
Continue reading →You know that apparently worldwide phenomenon about clothes dryers ‘eating’ single socks? Well, I think it’s contagious – and it mutates. We bought our first new vehicle in thirty years last summer… it’s a beautiful Ford F150: So everything was going along just fine for several months. Then one day, as I headed the few miles into town to the… Continue Reading Our truck eats socks
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