August 13, 2003
Cornography
Confession time: I have checked this link more than once. Perhaps I need to get out more...
Knitting Knews
Did I or did I not say that this looked like a cross between a felted bowl and a deflated balloon?
My current project: a lace scarf based on a free Ozyarn pattern (requires Adobe Acrobat). I'm doing #2 using Mountain Colors Weaver's Wool in a royal blue, lighter blue, purple, and teal colorway (perhaps Larkspur?). The dark variegated yarn is muddying up the laciness of the scarf but it's a fun, easy pattern with an enjoyable end result.
Dye Garden Dyegest
Truly the emperors, the gods, of our dye garden have arrived – the beautiful black hollyhocks. K and I have never planted these before and are now thoroughly in awe of and enamored with every inch of their seven-footedness.
We have discovered that hollyhocks cooperatively (or perhaps petulantly? or even petalantly?) fling their blossoms to the ground when the blossoms are still juicy and fresh and viable. This has two benefits. First, one gets to go on a daily equivalent of an easter egg hunt -- always fun -- and, second, there's no cutting-flowers-when-they're-still-beautiful guilt.
I put two of the freely flung flowers in a ramekin and poured some hot water over them (with K breathing down my neck with anticipation) and was thrilled to see the water turn the color of black cherry Kool-Aid!
Well, you know, I think the felted bowl is doing fine -- not as a bowl, no, that's true -- but as a piece of Art -- has a sort of Georgia O'Keefe look to it....
Posted by: Anne on August 14, 2003 07:17 AMOr perhaps like something from Dali's "Persistence of Memory" ("Melting Clock")picture?
Posted by: Ryan on August 14, 2003 08:19 AM