http://spindyeknit.com Alison's blog on Spinning Dyeing Knitting and Life Sun, 20 Jul 2008 17:38:57 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en First, thank you to all who have written about Ruth. My hope is that her husband aka The Roketman will follow the link back here and read your words and mine and find comfort in them.  I am told there was a spinners' guild meeting yesterday with him present, with ... http://spindyeknit.com/2008/07/twins/ I hadn't checked out her blog in a couple of months.  I wish I had.  Looking today, I find she had a fiberarts blogroll of only a dozen blogs--and one was mine.  That means a lot to me. Her youngest was the same age as my third child. Five years ago this ... http://spindyeknit.com/2008/07/ruth-schooley/ Look! Up in the sky! It's Battman! And Bobbin, the toy winder! (Some spontaneous wheel decorating took place about ten years ago when a kid tried to balance a cup of grape juice on the sidebars of the wheel.  This didn't work out quite as well as was apparently hoped, and ... http://spindyeknit.com/2008/07/its-a-bird-its-a-plane/ My daughter in Vermont wanted to see pictures of the plum tree she'd instigated, and the emailed picture didn't go through, so I'm putting up shots here of the day it was planted and what it looks like today, two months later.  Sprouting like a teenager--it's already taller than me. My ... http://spindyeknit.com/2008/07/oasis/ Nice idea.  Spent a lot of time on it today.  Good thing I swatched before I launched into it on a grand scale.  Watch me frog.  Watch me hit the delete button. 'Bye. Nice idea #2.  Spent a lot of time on it this evening.  Realized it won't work well with ... http://spindyeknit.com/2008/07/a-day-in-the-life-of-designing-lacework/ There's a reason redwoods are so tall: they live along the ridgeline of the California coast, between a near-desert climate and the ocean and where heavy fogs roll in at night.  They are designed to pierce the fog with their height, causing water droplets to condense and run down their ... http://spindyeknit.com/2008/07/redwoods/ I guess it's the squirrels on this one?  A few days ago, I found a redwood seedling popped up among the azaleas.  Which is all well and good, but, give it a few years and in the coming argument between the eaves of the house and the redwood, the house ... http://spindyeknit.com/2008/07/treedling/ Kay just called from Purlescence: the long-awaited Casbah shipment finally came in!  So that means I can knit Mary's skein up, they can put it on display, probably when I come to next Thursday's knit night if not sooner, and that shawl will be a sample of skeins they actually ... http://spindyeknit.com/2008/07/good-timing/ I love knit night at Purlescence.  I was going through serious knitters deprivation while we were on vacation and then they were too for awhile there. So here's the scene: I asked if I could have the shawl back that they had in the window, the Julia pattern from "Wrapped in ... http://spindyeknit.com/2008/07/casbah-comfort/ Kristine sent me a link to a chocolate-chunk cookie recipe with feves by Valrhona in it--oval shaped bits of dark chocolate, available from Whole Foods.  I wrote back that I was embarrassed to say I actually had some in my cupboard. And we're off to the races with another story... Years ago, ... http://spindyeknit.com/2008/07/oobleck-pie/