Monthly Archives: September 2012

Digital Estate Planning

Posted on September 28, 2012 by | Comments Off on Digital Estate Planning
When I die, what will happen to Rebecca's Pocket? To my photos on Flickr? To my Facebook page? What will happen to yours? Experts recommend that you name a "digital executor" and that you make a list of all your digital assets, along with logins and passwords. They also recommend that you clearly state your wishes: should your Facebook page be shut down, or would you prefer that it be left as memorial for your friends and family?

To simplify matters, you might also consider using a password management system so that your digital executor need only type in your master password to access all your online accounts. Then they need only consult your long list in the instance that your computer goes down in flames with you.

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Arriving Soon …

Posted on September 27, 2012 by | Comments Off on Arriving Soon …

October on the Vineyard.

The quiet and soothing greens and blues of summer are giving way to the fiery colors of autumn. Spectacular October will arrive on the Vineyard in a swirl of rusts, oranges, browns, reds and yellows. Crisp breezes whipping the air into a stunning clarity, and skies the bluest blue imaginable.

I can’t wait to be there.

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Review: Ancient Egypt in Lace and Color by Anna Dalvi

Posted on September 27, 2012 by | Comments Off on Review: Ancient Egypt in Lace and Color by Anna Dalvi

Ancient Egypt in Lace and Color by Anna Dalvi,  Cooperative Press, 2012, 89pp.

I’ve always loved Anna’s first book – and I love this one even more, if that’s possible!

Anna presents us with 12 different patterns, featuring gorgeous yarn from indie and small dyers such as Cephalopod, indigodragonfly, Rocky Mountain Dyework, Verdant Gryphon, and more.

Each shawl was inspired by some aspect of ancient Egypt:   the gods (Thoth, Set (the cover shawl), etc), myths, places, and more.  The motifs range from fairly literal (the waxing and waning moons in Thoth) to more abstract (Girl with the Rose Red Slippers).  The colors themselves are symbolic and pertain directly to the theme of each pattern.

I love all the attention to detail and thought that Anna put into this collection!  This is a book you can read and enjoy, on top of the patterns.

Each pattern has clear charts.  Most have pictures of the shawl laid flat to show its shape. Shapes include  rectangular, triangular, crescent to circular, with various permutations in between.

My favorites include Nefer, a lovely crescent shaped shawl with nupps, offered in two sizes:

and Girl with the Rose Slippers, a half octagon with different sections, each symbolizing part of the tale:

…and Nefertari, a gorgeous swooping triangular shawl.  Anna is tall and lithesome — she looks stunning in these larger shawls!  I got to see her in it at this past TNNA.  Just gorgeous!

Would you like to win your own PDF copy of  Ancient Egypt in Lace & Color?  Leave a comment on this post with your favorite design (and why!) by midnight, PST October 3rd.

Photos © Caro Sheridan

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This Morning in Pictures

Posted on September 27, 2012 by | Comments Off on This Morning in Pictures

Young donkeys in love, under the watchful eye of a bovine chaperone.

Little Stella is turning into quite a bruiser.

Sweet Luna. She is getting so thin from nursing Stella! Lucky for her, it’s nearly time to ween the calf.

Marco and Orzo, the two puppies we are not keeping. Both are going to great farms as soon as their fencing is completed.

I’m not entirely sure why Charley is sporting a mohair toupee…

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Bertie, giving me a skeptical look. She is the most suspicious animal I’ve ever known! If I offered her a handful of grain, she would take it and then immediately start looking around for the proper authorities to report me to.

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This Morning in Pictures

Posted on September 27, 2012 by | Comments Off on This Morning in Pictures

Young donkeys in love, under the watchful eye of a bovine chaperone.

Little Stella is turning into quite a bruiser.

Sweet Luna. She is getting so thin from nursing Stella! Lucky for her, it’s nearly time to ween the calf.

Marco and Orzo, the two puppies we are not keeping. Both are going to great farms as soon as their fencing is completed.

I’m not entirely sure why Charley is sporting a mohair toupee…

Sam

Bertie, giving me a skeptical look. She is the most suspicious animal I’ve ever known! If I offered her a handful of grain, she would take it and then immediately start looking around for the proper authorities to report me to.

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Designed: Cora

Posted on September 27, 2012 by | Comments Off on Designed: Cora

Because I was (and still am) pretty excited about ombré effects in knitting, I was particularly drawn to the unique way that Bohus knitting uses texture to help blend and incorporate color (in short: sometimes there are purls). But I didn’t want the colorplay to dominate the entire garment, so, for Cora I left it as a yoke detail.

This croqi reminds you of Selma Blair’s character in Legally Blonde, right? Severe black bob, an even severer expression– somewhere between petulant and pugnacious.

Anyway I opened up my copy of Poems of Color, which was a Christmas gift from my parents, and swatched around.

This is what I came up with.

photo © Caro Sheridan

Anyway, this is me. I’m wearing my most beautiful wool pants and a nice wool fedora (despite my fears) from Rag & Bone’s Fall 2011 collection (this is the one thing I bought when we went to San Francisco back in January– it was even more expensive than my emergency-room visit! (turns out, I had an ulcer!))

photo © Caro Sheridan

I’ll be the first to say that this design doesn’t even come close to approaching the level of intricacy and precise blur for which the original Bohus Stickning garments are so rightly famous. This is an approximation– a taste, I guess, of what’s possible.


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Baby Honu quilt progress

Posted on September 27, 2012 by | Comments Off on Baby Honu quilt progress
Baby Honu quilt progress

Next up, borders!

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Carry-ons

Posted on September 27, 2012 by | Comments Off on Carry-ons

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Do you bring the book(s) you’re reading with you when you go out? How?
Physically, or in an e-reader of some kind? Have your habits in this
regard changed? (I know I carried books with me more when I was in
school than I do now–I can’t read while I’m driving to work, after
all.)


Don’t forget to leave a link to your actual response (so people don’t have to go searching for it) in the comments—or if you prefer, leave your answers in the comments themselves!


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Falling

Posted on September 27, 2012 by | Comments Off on Falling
I love when I wake up and it's fall! I firmly believe that if I were prone to seasonal depression, I'd get it in the summer. Yes, there are things that even I, hater of hot weather, like about summer,...

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Studio Update

Posted on September 27, 2012 by | Comments Off on Studio Update
I know I promised pottery pictures next...but I woke up with an awful migraine this morning.  Managed to finish up a weaving project at LibertyTown, with an October 1 deadline (more about that later,) and that was about it.
 
Here it is while I was in the midst of it.  This project was much harder then I remembered (I've made two others in the past.)  Especially with all the interruptions that come with weaving in public.  Cotton chenille is very touchy...and the minute my mind wanders, it usually is followed by a half hour of UNWEAVING and trying to figure out where I am in the pattern.   I still have to work the fringe and then I will post a finished picture. (really.)
 
 
On the way home from LibertyTown I ran into the post office to drop off a birthday surpise for my Shepherd Friend in Vermont (you know who you are!) and stopped by The New Old House.
 
No one was working this morning.  Which is a result of all the work that has been done that doesn't require a permit.  We are in waiting mode now.
 
But LOOK!
 
 
 
And NO SNAKES.
 
Spent the rest of the day in bed with a heated bed buddy on my head.
 

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