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Showing posts with label iPod art. Show all posts
Showing posts with label iPod art. Show all posts

Tuesday, March 12, 2024

Stitching may return, sample bias, simple lunch,and a bit of art

 I've been feeling like doing a bit of stitching lately, saw a link on Mary Anne's blog about quilted potholders,  and thought that might be good, my knitted ones starting to wear out.

Then I found there's a whole thing about making entire quilts a complete block, top, filling and backing, at a time. Quilt as you go. QAYG. The traditional way is to deal with a whole big filling layer and backing, then quilting,  at once, a bit large for this maker.




like this. It also means the whole thing can be made of scraps, including the backing, so that includes me, since scraps are all I have.

So this might be the next thing that needs to be made, more likely potholders than an entire quilt.

And, while we're in campaigning and polling season, take a look. I  deplore the kind of sampling bias dear to the heart of certain famous newspapers I only use for cutting out patterns.  You know, the polling including mainly white folks with landlines and time.  But the practice seems to be pretty old, as here


only Protestant churchgoers counted. Not families like mine.

However, there's always lunch, and here's a salmon salad, made with yogurt and capers, on spinach, on toast. Fresh dates. 



I still make a bit of art here and there, like this one. 


Happy day, everyone, pot holder or painting, it's all good.



Saturday, February 3, 2024

Knitting, iPod art, spaghetti sauce

Here's S's  current work in progress, full of texture, lovely to touch. She raises the bar for the whole Friday knitting group.


We all played with my woven cowl wrap thingie, and have not come up with a name for it, but someone did a search and found a knit similar to it, with a pattern. So I guess the designer had the same idea. 

R tried it on, proving it's a great unisex item, because he looked terrific in it, and liked how you can choose a few ways to wear it. He's thinking of crocheting one for himself.

Chat ranged over stain-lifting pens, Northern Exposure, eye doctors, mulberry trees, squirrels, grandchildren updates, back strap looms, donated yarn, posh French names for English food, when Norman French ruled, and peasant Anglo Saxon names for the same food, tiaras, diamonds, cufflinks, and book groups. Among other subjects.

I cooked a spag sauce to use Saturday, with the Misfits
hot Italian sausage, plant based, diced tomato and tomato paste. There's wheat rotini to go with it. Simple stuff.



About the chickpea fritters, I found they heat up just fine for a second meal, and a bit of dipping sauce is still good. My accompanying salads are getting plainer and plainer, just spinach and mixed greens with cranberries or today loganberries chucked on. I'm finding they taste better with less dressing on them. Maybe it's an urgent need for spring-tonic  greens that's happening.

And I did a couple of images on my ancient iPod, inherited from Handsome Son years ago and mainly useful for playing freecell.  Emailed them to my phone, screenshot them and imported them here. 




Happy day, everyone! Enjoy whatever subject crosses your mind! As you see, my knitting group is an endless stream of consciousness.


Photo AC