Recent Musings

Loved loved loved this film by Jane Campion. It is such a gorgeously directed  movie. But what I really was taken by were all the scenes of Fanny stitching and creating her garments, the exquisite closeups, the attention  to the details of the sewing. And the recurrent use of white...and light. And I loved the little sister "Toots."(Oh yeah, and then  there was John Keats and his poetry...to reacquaint oneself with!)...

I just received the most wonderful artist book that I bought from Cathy Cullis in the U.K. I've been following her blog for awhile, after seeing a few of her pieces on one of my favorite artist's blogs Ornamental. Her artwork is very quirky and so in tune with my kind of non-mainstream art. I really wanted to buy one of her little dollies, but alas, they were all immediately sold out. Above  is the little book I bought...

We are supposed to get a "big" snowstorm tonight/tomorrow. Even the "health" club posted signs saying to check their website in the morning to see if they would be closed.

I always worry about my daughter driving into Chicago when there is bad weather. Snow days are fun...if you still get paid for taking the day(s) off work. And don't have to go out of your house for any reason.

 

 Finally finished (if you could call it that) my first "fingerless mitt/handwarmer" .  There are so many mistakes/holes/ wrongness. I looked at videos on knitting "the thumb" and none of them seem to address doing the thumb that I was trying to do.  But I just wasn't getting some of  the initial instructions for beginning the thumb from the pattern in the book.   For these pictures, on right hand and reversed on left hand, I had to take a crochet hook and try to lamely closed up all the holes, etc. If only I could photoshop younger, unwrinkled hands/fingers into these shots....sigh. and blah.