I think I've mentioned before that we tend to struggle for bags at the food bank. (Although, having said that, the bag situation is a little better than it was, because at the moment we're getting a lot of refugee families. Most of them don'
You recall Mr Wooster's code wheel from an earlier post? While I was very happy with the principle of the thing, it really wasn't as elegant as I'd have liked. It was, after all, only cardboard, fettled up with a bit of lightweight air-drying
Adelaide takes an age to warp up. Well, she would, I suppose; little Gisele won't take more than 15 warp ends, but Adelaide will take a great deal more warp than that, and you can't really call it ends, either. Adelaide's warp is continuous.
Before I start, I have a little announcement to make. I'm starting to find it difficult to keep this blog going on a daily basis, and I'm also aware that something is going to have to give when I re-start my degree course in the autumn.
I've mentioned that beading dish a number of times now. Well, I do quite a lot of beading; and while I do have a little lap tray (and a very nice one at that), it has a fairly detailed design on it, so it's not really
I could actually have said I was waxing wood wroth, which would have been a really splendid pun; but, alas, the reference is a tad obscure, and I would rather not confuse anyone. It's Malory's Morte d'Arthur, in which "wood" is frequently
At the moment I have a lot of projects that aren't quite where I need them to be in order to post about them. The bead dish in the kitchen is still not quite dry (though we're getting there, and hopefully it will not only be
I didn't feel very well yesterday, which was most probably due to Sibyl getting herself slightly blocked. (If she gets seriously blocked I really do know about it; it is quite astonishing how ill one feels with a blocked stoma. This, however, was just a minor obstruction and
This seems like the ideal moment to talk about some of the knitting I've been doing recently; it has, after all, been taking up most of my free time. For a start, I've just finished the emerald green jacket I've been on with since
First of all, I'm indebted to a lady on Mastodon called Marie-Louise (who I think is a francophone Canadian), who pointed out that I had the tension knob the wrong way round on Adelaide. It probably wouldn't have made a huge amount of difference in use,
A rather damp (but cheerful) young postal worker arrived yesterday morning with a mysterious flat parcel, and as soon as I saw the label I realised I had Adelaide. I was quite surprised that she'd go into anything quite so flat, but once I got the box open,
Well, she took a lot of painting; she and all her accessories got a full coat of Payne's Grey followed by most of a coat of silver (as in I didn't bother silvering the base, nor the inside of the roller, which is barely visible in