“We’ll have to start to sew.” (with sincerest apologies to fans of The Muppet Show) This project was started with the best of intentions a little over five years ago. It’s a wedding quilt for my sister and her husband who are (fortuitously) still happily married. I worked frantically at it for some time and…
Category: holidays
Christmas break
I’m more or less signing off on work and work-related blogging for the next two weeks. I have a few Christmas gifts to finish up by Sunday night, one of the most elaborate of which is the quilt below. Katherine asked for a new quilt for her bed made with my own dyed fabrics and…
That’s my kid: a Katherine update
For Christmas, Katherine has asked for the following: a candy cane a new quilt for her bed made with fabrics that mommy paints a new pair of slippers (she wants me to knit them for her) ice skates tinkertoys play dough some new books a new train (specifically Gordon’s express coaches) We really must be…
Weird weekend – warning: lots of whining
Right, so we’re down to a month until everything for the show has to be completed and two days before photography for the invites has to be done. Not everything need be ready for photographing, but I do need a good selection of pieces available and they should be representative of what the show will…
Exploits videos: loud music & lots of fun
Update: I’ve learned that YouTube does not function like Flickr in one important regard: private photos on Flickr can be externally embedded if you have access to them through the password and such. Private videos stored through YouTube cannot. In order to see these videos, you need to be logged in to your YouTube account…
Raising the Bar Strength & Conditioning 