At Rhinebeck. In which our heroine attempts to track down the perfect toothsome button, and get information on a spinning wheel, all the while treadling away in demonstration of the olde arts.
spinners, knitters, and no-goodnicks
Entertainment Kit; Part the 2nd (knitting 1st)
Mary Beth Temple: The Secret Language of Knitters
Dang funny. dang funny … forces me to buy yarn. Forced I am. (*****)- Ken Cuthbertson: "Nobody said not to go: The life, loves and adventures of Emily Hahn."
This woman was brilliant, brilliantly funny, brilliantly adventuresome. Congo in 1930, Shanghai and Hong Kong from 1935 - 1943. Graduated with a degree in mining engineering in 1926. Went on to write for the New Yorker magazine under Harold Ross's editorship. (*****) Thomas Hoving: Making the Mummies Dance : Inside the Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Douglas J. Preston: Dinosaurs in the Attic: An Excursion into the American Museum of Natural History
Dated, but what could be funnier - 30 ton meteorites on the skids, or fossil shenanigans? (****) - Simon Garfield: Mauve: How One Man Invented a Color That Changed the World
These are the dyes I'm more familiar with. And no, I haven't read "Blue", yet. (*****) Amy Butler Greenfield: A Perfect Red
Color and bugs. What's not to like? (*****)
web rings
- Fiber Arts
Dyers Web Ring Join | List | Previous | Next | Random | Previous 5 | Next 5 | Skip Previous | Skip Next
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Socks
- I am a sock machine. Not that I churn them out, no, but in the way I wear them, multiple pairs at a time when on location, with toe warmers. Love me some wind chill. Warm ankles go a long way towards happiness.
Bugs
- Sometimes they're drawn or painted. Sometimes they're 3-d and scrunchy. They belong on the ground and are made to play with.
Do you mean a button which will be pleasant to chew on (are you knitting baby cardigans?)?
Posted by: Angie | November 05, 2011 at 01:59 PM