tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-219001032024-03-14T14:22:13.558+11:00Robyne Melia is Bobby La'Here' is for chat about all things stitching, is a place to link to my various other sites, and somewhere to show and tell and never shut up.Bobby Lahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10370328648446816338noreply@blogger.comBlogger772125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21900103.post-5216668027908130012024-01-04T19:43:00.003+11:002024-01-04T19:43:32.940+11:00Bobby La’s Hand Dyed Yarns Launch<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWWioNAptYR3e0MM7hm71lPjG3kVkP3oj1uNdpVZ7RL1iOw-WGS9zGv_jKHhB6u3xUd3V5tWWvhJ24cEqvj6BwkO59xeHJE-HAhidWKnUrBRuMGt5gLMa0Nz_B5AiuZlYqA150MkRrqF_u_bb4vhBsjP0E2paB44jUwAhficxSbdM6fWQL4sLn/s1440/4F1E268D-DE02-438A-90BA-5F77981200E8.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1440" data-original-width="1440" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWWioNAptYR3e0MM7hm71lPjG3kVkP3oj1uNdpVZ7RL1iOw-WGS9zGv_jKHhB6u3xUd3V5tWWvhJ24cEqvj6BwkO59xeHJE-HAhidWKnUrBRuMGt5gLMa0Nz_B5AiuZlYqA150MkRrqF_u_bb4vhBsjP0E2paB44jUwAhficxSbdM6fWQL4sLn/s320/4F1E268D-DE02-438A-90BA-5F77981200E8.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2848" data-original-width="2087" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFlBRbsfgasRGlpZiIaZVTeGpXl5whXuItK_5M6lpa0eSKi3SJMuMD7EOcoXHHNDdC70uOekenTXDsiojPiVVGKVSyhiN8-Q-oTESHJ57_yHn-8qBqraxf6V-HeCq4KkRAO52br58nUeHiysgCwRh0K9Vec4urBMzv24GejZLtnw7WgR3ffkpV/s320/F809687C-F1D1-4030-AAB2-E3F71D8AEF6C.jpeg" width="234" /></a></div><br />I have just put up the first of my Australian Merino hand dyed and natural yarn on Etsy (via bio). The labels aren’t quite printed yet (ink is still wet on the garden drawing, which has nothing to do with wool but everything to do with home). This is a gorgeous, soft, strong, lightly lofted 17 micron, 1/13nm (100g/1,300m)merino that takes colour beautifully. Colours will build and you can order any amount, but this is for my fun, on top of a job and a wild idea to write a book of my own designs (2 years in and well on the way). <p></p><p>I just love this wool so much and want to share it in either it’s natural state or colours that I love, true story. Note @elizabethwilliamsonknitting ‘s #daskelberryshawl knit by @sk2pgrant and dyed by myself. So grateful!! #bobbylashanddyes #handdyedyarn #cobwebwool #finelaceknitting #shetlandlace #knittersgonnaknit #shetlandknitting #australianmerino #beautifulhanddyedyarn #cottageindustryaustralia #robynemeliaisbobbyla #illustrationartists #inkdrawing #topiarygarden #topiarybirds</p>Bobby Lahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10370328648446816338noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21900103.post-27609481961788052142023-09-22T13:18:00.002+10:002023-09-22T13:18:20.869+10:00The Widow’s Lament<p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgc1iigkGs9k1bY-E_8vrYhDtegP0hTYb8e300fs4ysFANPNt3ShJJ93VZPX-vv0ZnNcaw22TXUNkMXLavtZiW-wkqzh81TaI-HVUAKNQapIRg6h-Ha4w0Gl8_FU7oTxdPSaqQKyIe-FbzdudSpDItvAlbZ4ewREvo_o0aXlwsQCGI2RXj7Lf8m/s275/CC89BDF8-C5D6-4DED-B97B-9018C8CBB09B.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="183" data-original-width="275" height="183" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgc1iigkGs9k1bY-E_8vrYhDtegP0hTYb8e300fs4ysFANPNt3ShJJ93VZPX-vv0ZnNcaw22TXUNkMXLavtZiW-wkqzh81TaI-HVUAKNQapIRg6h-Ha4w0Gl8_FU7oTxdPSaqQKyIe-FbzdudSpDItvAlbZ4ewREvo_o0aXlwsQCGI2RXj7Lf8m/s1600/CC89BDF8-C5D6-4DED-B97B-9018C8CBB09B.jpeg" width="275" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><p> <span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleTallBody; font-size: 17px;">I’m looking at the dent on the couch</span></p><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleTallBody; font-size: 17px;">Where you used to sit<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div></span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleTallBody; font-size: 17px;">It’s still there</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleTallBody; font-size: 17px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleTallBody; font-size: 17px;"></span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleTallBody; font-size: 17px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleTallBody; font-size: 17px;">I’m thinking of the dumb</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleTallBody; font-size: 17px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleTallBody; font-size: 17px;">Arse</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleTallBody; font-size: 17px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleTallBody; font-size: 17px;">Crap</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleTallBody; font-size: 17px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleTallBody; font-size: 17px;">I (can) watch</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleTallBody; font-size: 17px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleTallBody; font-size: 17px;">Without your eyes</span><div><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleTallBody; font-size: 17px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleTallBody; font-size: 17px;">Rolllling</span></div><div><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleTallBody; font-size: 17px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleTallBody; font-size: 17px;">Without some groaning</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleTallBody; font-size: 17px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleTallBody; font-size: 17px;"></span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleTallBody; font-size: 17px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleTallBody; font-size: 17px;">Without even watching (I’m busy)</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleTallBody; font-size: 17px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleTallBody; font-size: 17px;">(I don’t care)</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleTallBody; font-size: 17px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleTallBody; font-size: 17px;"></span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleTallBody; font-size: 17px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleTallBody; font-size: 17px;">Without you</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleTallBody; font-size: 17px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleTallBody; font-size: 17px;">Now you’ve gone</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleTallBody; font-size: 17px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleTallBody; font-size: 17px;">I might end up watching the wrong shows</span></div><div><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleTallBody; font-size: 17px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleTallBody; font-size: 17px;">All of the time</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleTallBody; font-size: 17px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleTallBody; font-size: 17px;"></span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleTallBody; font-size: 17px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleTallBody; font-size: 17px;">I miss you</span></div>Bobby Lahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10370328648446816338noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21900103.post-27599461778182880552023-07-28T22:46:00.278+10:002023-08-30T10:43:12.175+10:00Alexander Kenneth Tolmie McKenzie & Jane (Jennie) Ross, His Wife.<div class="separator"><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHsI76wXkjZKqfL6up0NQ0jgK0mNznRT656-0MQ9VqMUc2hGN-loE4CXbu-h6-x82WYZvAAAlFTItsia4OB3-esDROHRYKAsIpfaX2o_KekZgY8FuH7p3jNYkRtujp0FE2F-C4qB33F2NvJ8G2wbhLq7s54QH0q_rSPDscdy25xWXD9Eqr7QUg/s800/84ae63e1-f80a-4618-86fe-e5d099da14aa.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="552" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHsI76wXkjZKqfL6up0NQ0jgK0mNznRT656-0MQ9VqMUc2hGN-loE4CXbu-h6-x82WYZvAAAlFTItsia4OB3-esDROHRYKAsIpfaX2o_KekZgY8FuH7p3jNYkRtujp0FE2F-C4qB33F2NvJ8G2wbhLq7s54QH0q_rSPDscdy25xWXD9Eqr7QUg/w276-h400/84ae63e1-f80a-4618-86fe-e5d099da14aa.jpg" width="276" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Thought to be a tall red-head.</i></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Alexander McKenzie, born 5 Dec 1842 in Fodderty, to Kenneth McKenzie and Ann (Annie) Tolmie & Jane Ross, born 30 Dec 1842 in Ardgay, Kincardine, to Donald (Callum) Ross and Ann (Annie) Murray.</p><p>The gorgeous book:<a href="https://www.familysearch.org/library/books/records/item/349474-the-chronicles-of-the-ardcronie-children-parish-of-kincardine-ross-shire-scotland"> 'The Chronicles of the Ardchronie Children: Parish of Kincardine'</a> has a beautiful account of Jane (Jennie)'s parents Donald Callum and Annie's wedding and then Jane's birth (both below). Note that Maggie, the author, is Jane's younger sister. More about Donald later.</p><p>Alexander & Jane married 28 Nov 1864 in Dundee. He was a Mason and she a domestic servant. It's the first time just now that I noticed they were at the same address and that it's a fair way from home. 3hrs drive today. I suppose that's where they met.</p><p>The very next I hear from them is via the birth of their son, named Alexander (of course) born in Shellback Creek, Thames, New Zealand in 1869. Our Alick by now a miner. You will no doubt be aware of the gold rush going on in NZ and Australia. In 1872 my great grandmother Elizabeth (Bessie, no one was allowed to call her anything but Bessie) McKenzie was born in Thames, New Zealand (North Island). Alick was by now a contractor.</p><p>The family moved to the Dunedin area on the South Island, though I'm not sure when or what was happening. There is the Deborah Bay tunnel contract in 1874 and Jane much later lived at Palmerston nearby. I assume the family were around Dunedin for much of the time while Alexander travelled for work. The contracts include Alick's brothers Daniel and John. Daniel did aged 51 in 1890.</p><p>I had not known of Daniel as he was not present for the 1851 census, however family contacted me to inform me of Annie nee Tolmie (of the wedding story) going to NZ and sent this gravestone picture below. A Daniel McKenzie is found at another property in Tain, as a stable boy (aged 14) and I imagine it was not a terribly common name and explains the gap.</p><p><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUB2pYvLDtF3fxDseEOd_181gJvG2ySkqC2xaV30GW6_EMbf7GVB_sTR8-8r4bf5ewhu7HUrm7M67r4SnKJUS3QgVvAOMpUrIQXfisd_SUG1m-z2sgJB4xU2kRHzkkVsZUEoZHjC8CHZIeW1ZlTqfJIcuJjoG1JLhGb9QxeEqHpyfWSlczyDCX/s923/Daniel%20McKenzie%20tombstone.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="923" data-original-width="692" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUB2pYvLDtF3fxDseEOd_181gJvG2ySkqC2xaV30GW6_EMbf7GVB_sTR8-8r4bf5ewhu7HUrm7M67r4SnKJUS3QgVvAOMpUrIQXfisd_SUG1m-z2sgJB4xU2kRHzkkVsZUEoZHjC8CHZIeW1ZlTqfJIcuJjoG1JLhGb9QxeEqHpyfWSlczyDCX/s320/Daniel%20McKenzie%20tombstone.jpg" width="240" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Port Chalmers, New Zealand.</i></td></tr></tbody></table><br /> On 5 Dec 1878, in Greymouth, Alexander was struck and killed by a 'lodger' when felling a tree. See article below. </p><p></p><p>Alexander was part of the Freemasons in Thames. His name is found in their archives and below, the obituaries speak of his character. There are mistakes. For example I have no evidence of the couple ever going to Nova Scotia, though I have no travel records at all so they may have popped over. Alick's brothers John and Daniel McKenzie were over in NZ too. Daniel shows up at a nearby place in the census in Scotland and I had not otherwise known of him, until finding some distant family who confirmed via Ann Tolmie's death. After their father Kenneth McKenzie died in Scotland, Annie followed them down to Dunedin, NZ. I had imagined Alexanders life in NZ to be a lonely one, dying away from his wife and children. However I have found evidence that his brother Daniel had worked nearby not long before his death. With their mother Annie around, Jane, the children, her brother in laws and their families nearby, it will have been quite a family.</p><p>John, Daniel and Alexander had the contract for the Deborah Bay tunnel, a railroad tunnel that I think exists today as a walking track. </p><p>Jane's father Donald Ross was a road contractor back in Kincardine, where he lived his whole life as far as I can see. He is buried with Ann and their son John at Kincardine Cemetery (below).</p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxLky3xv6zQdhyO-nfYWEk8JaOxIZH-cxrx84kMXze-BtL4M8ouJ-9er48iH1RlmibCGRV6y3KS0sRPjV6MHsYjqPTnQA-OPA1BlhpwWtn6XOM8IpasdgrDYOS_LVX0_S1eDqn5RnFaVdgQIM4M2pQiWPVE0hSmBco1SiOTrs3crq0RRaW4-Sq/s2643/Alexander%20McKenzie%20birth%20(2).jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2643" data-original-width="1664" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxLky3xv6zQdhyO-nfYWEk8JaOxIZH-cxrx84kMXze-BtL4M8ouJ-9er48iH1RlmibCGRV6y3KS0sRPjV6MHsYjqPTnQA-OPA1BlhpwWtn6XOM8IpasdgrDYOS_LVX0_S1eDqn5RnFaVdgQIM4M2pQiWPVE0hSmBco1SiOTrs3crq0RRaW4-Sq/s320/Alexander%20McKenzie%20birth%20(2).jpg" width="201" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>5th December 1842, birth of Alexander McKenzie to Kenneth and Anne nee Tolmie.</i></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhw9HvjUpY_YSHTVv0I0NqqHGfzDGqMGhhDzJC6nbl8BdrQouqNMQ-apq43AMuC9RkKZFSuK5x_czD9xlgwwqHF9tp3e6cnDLsAa8yeupti1OkRRiMJ-y4oEA7AbkiwnqdS7Y4ttweFwKgZJB11kEapxFkXhOGsWO7bhJ7EfEvKgk7aBHnMCUb4/s3138/Jane%20Ross%20birth.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3138" data-original-width="1952" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhw9HvjUpY_YSHTVv0I0NqqHGfzDGqMGhhDzJC6nbl8BdrQouqNMQ-apq43AMuC9RkKZFSuK5x_czD9xlgwwqHF9tp3e6cnDLsAa8yeupti1OkRRiMJ-y4oEA7AbkiwnqdS7Y4ttweFwKgZJB11kEapxFkXhOGsWO7bhJ7EfEvKgk7aBHnMCUb4/s320/Jane%20Ross%20birth.jpg" width="199" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Jane Ross, daughter of Donald Ross, Ardchronie, and Ann Murray. b 30 Dec 1843, baptised 12 Jan 1844.</i></td></tr></tbody></table></div><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-7efWcXdl0MzbHkX442vAChGn4lq4oB0IBvvFv2tPnq_ORQerKx8EUQblCY1i3SUJo3Wn_bY0Frg7x2Y0GOiSNMkKnkiSd7WO6ZmMhZsop8E5ZK7OPtK_b_teDUwBMIgMdVtC04AOXKtIM9ZPErkpaXVrByzKCcXJCX3ylVz3jbTJGZ0OEWMh/s441/Account%20of%20Donald%20Ross%20(Callum)%20and%20Annie%20Murray's%20wedding%20Februry%201842,%20Kincardine,%20Ross..jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="305" data-original-width="441" height="442" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-7efWcXdl0MzbHkX442vAChGn4lq4oB0IBvvFv2tPnq_ORQerKx8EUQblCY1i3SUJo3Wn_bY0Frg7x2Y0GOiSNMkKnkiSd7WO6ZmMhZsop8E5ZK7OPtK_b_teDUwBMIgMdVtC04AOXKtIM9ZPErkpaXVrByzKCcXJCX3ylVz3jbTJGZ0OEWMh/w640-h442/Account%20of%20Donald%20Ross%20(Callum)%20and%20Annie%20Murray's%20wedding%20Februry%201842,%20Kincardine,%20Ross..jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i>The wedding of Donald (Callum) Ross and Anne Murray (Jane's parents and Alexander's in laws).</i></div><i> Beginning, My father... which is Donald Callum Ross (my g.g.g.grandfather). Near the bottom when the author states: Now for our family... there is mention of Jennie being in NZ ... this was such a moving passage to read and I am amazed to find such detail. Nice stories too.</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEix16ZendOuGtPT-1mWeONrJ-yfJ8Pb5ChJrlrrrc0MDucma6oMowbO4qpVgs0kNCAr_0E4brRMorEgnrvjeB63eZMjV0hsionvKmkaVukkd3z_4i50EjE-XVdaLa_pgjxm3aRgTwjhJtUPWoenlZv5aalNDn9Iq5sxlgwCnf4gG7M9klrlttiv/s1922/marriage%20dundee.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="690" data-original-width="1922" height="230" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEix16ZendOuGtPT-1mWeONrJ-yfJ8Pb5ChJrlrrrc0MDucma6oMowbO4qpVgs0kNCAr_0E4brRMorEgnrvjeB63eZMjV0hsionvKmkaVukkd3z_4i50EjE-XVdaLa_pgjxm3aRgTwjhJtUPWoenlZv5aalNDn9Iq5sxlgwCnf4gG7M9klrlttiv/w640-h230/marriage%20dundee.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>The wedding certificate of Alexander and Jennie (Jane).</i></td></tr></tbody></table><p style="text-align: left;">In New Zealand, in 1869 and 1872, Alexander and Elizabeth were born. Father, miner. The district they were born in was a huge gold-rush area. Elizabeth died before I was born but was quite a character. I'll do a separate article on her later.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYlmLdzBAVEalmyjPczuM9W0T70tq7g4aauvc6MBt334DT54BTmQq0AGuigsnVpCJaItLUSBDbuRFy7EvgcalH_urJ3fE5vU7em9qc69QBOjZRIOvFdZbuzgs5jh03D3SeakP4xBMCB0nMLrBFSFp5WXRl_ld3--Ku9A-mp_5RBirD1yscxhbU/s3655/Alexander%20McKenzie%20jnr271.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="567" data-original-width="3655" height="63" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYlmLdzBAVEalmyjPczuM9W0T70tq7g4aauvc6MBt334DT54BTmQq0AGuigsnVpCJaItLUSBDbuRFy7EvgcalH_urJ3fE5vU7em9qc69QBOjZRIOvFdZbuzgs5jh03D3SeakP4xBMCB0nMLrBFSFp5WXRl_ld3--Ku9A-mp_5RBirD1yscxhbU/w400-h63/Alexander%20McKenzie%20jnr271.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8IAiROescJ2C3bhGtFBkyrl9moZfZIfg0_9mgkLLR5rQbshIFg91IIQdVA0oDbVNdyKl3lcPf7RTQF9dT7nhlKDzMtNKXHgdDjeSVYOlySMi37LDLBq4VI26jIuwA8a-o7JQrn9RFmC-wuq-iSvunElva654fdTV_n6mJYZ38dWNQPYMAYIbD/s9167/Bessie%20McKenzie249.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="6704" data-original-width="9167" height="234" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8IAiROescJ2C3bhGtFBkyrl9moZfZIfg0_9mgkLLR5rQbshIFg91IIQdVA0oDbVNdyKl3lcPf7RTQF9dT7nhlKDzMtNKXHgdDjeSVYOlySMi37LDLBq4VI26jIuwA8a-o7JQrn9RFmC-wuq-iSvunElva654fdTV_n6mJYZ38dWNQPYMAYIbD/s320/Bessie%20McKenzie249.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Bessie's original birth certificate.</i></td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjN-v2COuAbLP5tuKbIUu0IRuhjWoCllsrtJW2wTCo-jtkTlDELOnCYucbVw3uVnKvTNVzUVWGiPlaXvkpl2u029exwWNGMqX1zH6gi6eBD7R9mhOamV3KBz82oLD5Re2F0AHKGlpob5ihsYNU9e1aI4e3MNL3_4NbBL-rIyk6aQehZbinhwQYd/s800/Bessie%20McKenzie%20(1).jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="598" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjN-v2COuAbLP5tuKbIUu0IRuhjWoCllsrtJW2wTCo-jtkTlDELOnCYucbVw3uVnKvTNVzUVWGiPlaXvkpl2u029exwWNGMqX1zH6gi6eBD7R9mhOamV3KBz82oLD5Re2F0AHKGlpob5ihsYNU9e1aI4e3MNL3_4NbBL-rIyk6aQehZbinhwQYd/s320/Bessie%20McKenzie%20(1).jpg" width="239" /></a><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjz_sfZFvtTQ6wrtQ33OyEYobao2X3ArV2QdlFQkywmdxOzz-UAa2ZEai1CMKWrXe0056BiLKeJ2ENLwO-I143TllrtNyd98LMp4go80kRTsZIqVDSdnDJnexrzRDrlLgpFTF3_WF1u4p8pQYYitTFpLyYqXqcmFtcdCDZxPRl4kSgLlQuksj6R/s800/Bessie%20Armstrong%20nee%20McKenzie.jpg" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="589" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjz_sfZFvtTQ6wrtQ33OyEYobao2X3ArV2QdlFQkywmdxOzz-UAa2ZEai1CMKWrXe0056BiLKeJ2ENLwO-I143TllrtNyd98LMp4go80kRTsZIqVDSdnDJnexrzRDrlLgpFTF3_WF1u4p8pQYYitTFpLyYqXqcmFtcdCDZxPRl4kSgLlQuksj6R/s320/Bessie%20Armstrong%20nee%20McKenzie.jpg" width="236" /></a></div><i> Bessie joined the Salvation Army in Auckland and came to Melbourne, Australia, to study, where she met and married George Armstrong and had five children: Hazel, Laurel, Hilda, George (known as Keith, my gramps) and Ian Alister (Alec). Just a brag... Hilda and Laurel won a competition in 1923, choosing the name 'Vegemite' for a new vegetable extract you may have heard of (yum). </i></div><p style="text-align: center;">Whilst I do have two of the contracts involving the Deborah Bay Tunnel, they are too long (and a bit boring) to add here. I did find this snippet from 1874 and imagine it to be my great, great grandfather, though I know nothing more on the subject:</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgi3B4r2cP7nZ-nFp2r7DOYSNd-rqYbPva1Y8qjFpW2zLU142JIHXT0HhsjsIb-xHpwjBXV8RL8UYBV3dOoT-aHGbm6HRFobSZxs2DKhwW3ou7Zh2sKlnoxyT2ub01mDOgB6XQFsP_bADB1ELo_zfgOaQYW8dhnhCgHEKdDVlrnCGmsnh6-Dhwo/s429/Telegram%201874.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="162" data-original-width="429" height="121" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgi3B4r2cP7nZ-nFp2r7DOYSNd-rqYbPva1Y8qjFpW2zLU142JIHXT0HhsjsIb-xHpwjBXV8RL8UYBV3dOoT-aHGbm6HRFobSZxs2DKhwW3ou7Zh2sKlnoxyT2ub01mDOgB6XQFsP_bADB1ELo_zfgOaQYW8dhnhCgHEKdDVlrnCGmsnh6-Dhwo/s320/Telegram%201874.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div><br /></div>And then, sadly, we go to his death. This was very difficult to find as the name is so common and NZ BMD doesn't have parents names in their search engine. However, I was contacted by someone who was related to Jenni's second husband (the name change being the reason I could not find her death certificate, nor any trace of her). That wedding certificate, whilst having Alexander wrongly named 'Charles', added up in every other way and gave the date of this, her first husband's death, some 11 years previous. From that I was able to narrow down my search and find my grandfather's death certificate and then found a few newspaper articles.<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDslVlLmPqMpvWLT00lVOk1qvnQFAbKUcoGCbFVqSPvLUod1iX_BO_uqWHRZDEl5nUYGXIaY6OAXHQvDSLh7YCTf-uW3h0i1pLF1u1nPr7J4DyTi641CNRFH9fHn9zeYsY6PYCq7a8PEgLLsOCPL_wOvSKsRYklG0zDLvZkLkYSeuCN68v4MIY/s999/Fullscreen%20capture%2026082020%20100731%20AM-001.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="565" data-original-width="999" height="181" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDslVlLmPqMpvWLT00lVOk1qvnQFAbKUcoGCbFVqSPvLUod1iX_BO_uqWHRZDEl5nUYGXIaY6OAXHQvDSLh7YCTf-uW3h0i1pLF1u1nPr7J4DyTi641CNRFH9fHn9zeYsY6PYCq7a8PEgLLsOCPL_wOvSKsRYklG0zDLvZkLkYSeuCN68v4MIY/s320/Fullscreen%20capture%2026082020%20100731%20AM-001.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjp6a2HTgp7MisfT2_IaR2GreATdMFrt9PqgDkhcV5bHIjfwkKeX0dzQuNlBS-MvJZPPrxfgcd7BZfWVN8PXHvRub8c-uGvsZfew0BQjOAhSKMYLlOyVnwZztXJ_rqgev7Tmz2AncBNPt2mCIl8ONxEu_aVCCOx1V80UeP20pXQTrbV8Amecp5X/s1000/Fullscreen%20capture%2026082020%20100826%20AM-001.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="551" data-original-width="1000" height="176" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjp6a2HTgp7MisfT2_IaR2GreATdMFrt9PqgDkhcV5bHIjfwkKeX0dzQuNlBS-MvJZPPrxfgcd7BZfWVN8PXHvRub8c-uGvsZfew0BQjOAhSKMYLlOyVnwZztXJ_rqgev7Tmz2AncBNPt2mCIl8ONxEu_aVCCOx1V80UeP20pXQTrbV8Amecp5X/s320/Fullscreen%20capture%2026082020%20100826%20AM-001.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><div><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGNUI2tdpgmPBkTC3KeNv_sx00h5d2kdr_9i4Q29S44GBV3o4JeiqAzqcJHVPnRY5ErArsV8xk8p-02VFAci7npfjZDPKvwIh3lmKUusX48Nyak6ZMY583TYOahKlyiAJUlRK8kH1cV140asAlpDBH2oAKhuV6d4m_-v7tqYRJmXjeC9irs6ac/s670/Grey%20River%20Argus%20Obituary%20cropped.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="630" data-original-width="670" height="301" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGNUI2tdpgmPBkTC3KeNv_sx00h5d2kdr_9i4Q29S44GBV3o4JeiqAzqcJHVPnRY5ErArsV8xk8p-02VFAci7npfjZDPKvwIh3lmKUusX48Nyak6ZMY583TYOahKlyiAJUlRK8kH1cV140asAlpDBH2oAKhuV6d4m_-v7tqYRJmXjeC9irs6ac/s320/Grey%20River%20Argus%20Obituary%20cropped.png" width="320" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;"><i>I have not found any Nova Scotia connection though as mentioned I have no travel documents at all. He certainly was born in Scotland. </i></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-OuGYEp9xwBN521PhdoGMVWAtU8BX-JV4hedosm8InR88bXnSMtm5vHYUJILio0Xepc5o36pHi8njcWfc0JX7Ax_n7sLiJaciif4yXV3IegyyLFxWUaz-niTZhFDXj5nrRQ3Q9NoMSJqw29ZDWaPUhfl6MtMw2lxVPK1LM-zn9hVV8dR3VjgH/s1465/Thames%20Star%20September%201878%20Obituary.gif" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1465" data-original-width="454" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-OuGYEp9xwBN521PhdoGMVWAtU8BX-JV4hedosm8InR88bXnSMtm5vHYUJILio0Xepc5o36pHi8njcWfc0JX7Ax_n7sLiJaciif4yXV3IegyyLFxWUaz-niTZhFDXj5nrRQ3Q9NoMSJqw29ZDWaPUhfl6MtMw2lxVPK1LM-zn9hVV8dR3VjgH/w124-h400/Thames%20Star%20September%201878%20Obituary.gif" width="124" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">The children were 6 & 9 years old. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Young Alexander became a fisherman like his own father in law. I have yet to find any current descendants. He had 2 daughters and a son (Alexander of course) to Emma Ajen, his wife. One girl Annie Emma and Violet Jane. Annie died aged 14.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhve9qqv35h7UUxNr0_E-qEfRLwx2EI59A2aZTbDLMPbczGrC-ThRmlw7n-dj6e9_T2HhtbS3Eejysbxf2SBupYy8kiAP7HqTvXHAgPfjhegeYoZCyM7EBkgFVR2kGMTj7UCyCSDyN-7akaI00cuBtCX6n70msMHIuDjgUb_YHZGhfw_suBPPBw/s1000/Jane%202nd%20marriagea.jpg" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" data-original-height="614" data-original-width="1000" height="196" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhve9qqv35h7UUxNr0_E-qEfRLwx2EI59A2aZTbDLMPbczGrC-ThRmlw7n-dj6e9_T2HhtbS3Eejysbxf2SBupYy8kiAP7HqTvXHAgPfjhegeYoZCyM7EBkgFVR2kGMTj7UCyCSDyN-7akaI00cuBtCX6n70msMHIuDjgUb_YHZGhfw_suBPPBw/s320/Jane%202nd%20marriagea.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br style="text-align: left;" /> </div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBa_tGem14ClqJSQGrXMVA28sprE4lTpfL1OlWAgax-8s2_thWRiseDY7svdIHgxv8qKrzjClZegj8bQLzK8NRbNXrLiWVUkgq8VB_gkgefMkI9Y5QBULyM-IoPOJHJETMudl6a4cbnstMmYqTqNukiS4GVQhuW-TUYjojWUYseRCXSYFs73AS/s1000/Jane%202nd%20marriageb.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="615" data-original-width="1000" height="197" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBa_tGem14ClqJSQGrXMVA28sprE4lTpfL1OlWAgax-8s2_thWRiseDY7svdIHgxv8qKrzjClZegj8bQLzK8NRbNXrLiWVUkgq8VB_gkgefMkI9Y5QBULyM-IoPOJHJETMudl6a4cbnstMmYqTqNukiS4GVQhuW-TUYjojWUYseRCXSYFs73AS/s320/Jane%202nd%20marriageb.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Jennie and John Shearer Ritchie's wedding. Note Jane's parents. They had no children (she was 45).</i></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;">Below is the tombstone of Jane's parents and brother at Kincardine, Scotland. Donald Ross, the Road Contractor my father spoke of as having either been in NZ or being somehow connected to Alexander (his son in law) become a rail tunnel builder. I have no information about any link between their work and it's clear that Donald lived and died in Scotland, though 10 years between census allows for some movement.</span></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjR_eAGpSavMRjGM-ShYW_2XkSwDNYyfOAAqdDBP5sb8qA7KoQ12ZM6KI-VvVIi3vI0oqdQFTnYxWrb_fdZUNaQLEnrQCmhcXLMllhmdYYNcFmTgrzhMATU2fLTuhHdDFxXHFbKewVoemJ2jjN9ud0GZUFspgTvs40mHXzTSvfD9TMSBKmcbFiw/s1000/Fullscreen%20capture%2026082020%20101206%20AM.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="1000" height="256" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjR_eAGpSavMRjGM-ShYW_2XkSwDNYyfOAAqdDBP5sb8qA7KoQ12ZM6KI-VvVIi3vI0oqdQFTnYxWrb_fdZUNaQLEnrQCmhcXLMllhmdYYNcFmTgrzhMATU2fLTuhHdDFxXHFbKewVoemJ2jjN9ud0GZUFspgTvs40mHXzTSvfD9TMSBKmcbFiw/s320/Fullscreen%20capture%2026082020%20101206%20AM.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1oD2hGa5cJCkqzHLfkkHCg3r71-Hyowi2YB8PqzjBBPUbZ_78zjAtKYdOgJyBfj6_Z8u97dQpnE3F6gnVc4eaF4ZprZzU29FHX0DL9gXdtRCe8p0dJUlZipZrySXRuHjXrAgFQhN0YysRg5Uh37n9xzRIWYAOwZDnKnMDMXyqjT2ItRlVS2Q6/s1000/Fullscreen%20capture%2026082020%20101110%20AM.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="1000" height="256" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1oD2hGa5cJCkqzHLfkkHCg3r71-Hyowi2YB8PqzjBBPUbZ_78zjAtKYdOgJyBfj6_Z8u97dQpnE3F6gnVc4eaF4ZprZzU29FHX0DL9gXdtRCe8p0dJUlZipZrySXRuHjXrAgFQhN0YysRg5Uh37n9xzRIWYAOwZDnKnMDMXyqjT2ItRlVS2Q6/s320/Fullscreen%20capture%2026082020%20101110%20AM.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Jane (Jennie) Ritchie's death.<br /><i>Again, as is common with death certificates, where the recording of information about the deceased is by those around them, some details are incorrect.</i> <br /><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Below is Jennie's parent's gravestone at Kincardine, Scotland.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIoUSf8PAe0LBIr9FWpady3-o0ij4ofII9EGGKFzzRO-5PBomYjZOmEGlr9Cfjr9WD7NkmNbrPt2KwXmB-SthUnGoT5M2-GsLP-NAv4bIqDmmgUpaNw8PQqHF0WXfxMoA5YzC3sjFbev6xNW1N57kMJCQQr5fs2F2-reD3SbITjWPyAOx7htdU/s753/Donald%20Ross%20and%20Annie%20Murray%20headstone.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="753" data-original-width="730" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIoUSf8PAe0LBIr9FWpady3-o0ij4ofII9EGGKFzzRO-5PBomYjZOmEGlr9Cfjr9WD7NkmNbrPt2KwXmB-SthUnGoT5M2-GsLP-NAv4bIqDmmgUpaNw8PQqHF0WXfxMoA5YzC3sjFbev6xNW1N57kMJCQQr5fs2F2-reD3SbITjWPyAOx7htdU/s320/Donald%20Ross%20and%20Annie%20Murray%20headstone.jpg" width="310" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: #f6f3f0; color: #333333; font-family: ui-sans, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14.5px; text-align: start; white-space-collapse: preserve;">In loving memory of/DONALD ROSS/died 14th Aug. 1909/aged 94 years/and of his wife/ANNIE MURRAY/died 24th April 1910/aged 85 years/also their son/JOHN ROSS/died at Ardcronie/8th March 1929/aged 83 years.
</span></td></tr></tbody></table>Bobby Lahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10370328648446816338noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21900103.post-70891714970521075992023-07-11T15:11:00.001+10:002023-07-11T15:16:52.655+10:003am<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0PNcLBjNE8m_ynOcRLYnAzeFWLoCPFM5pUt70rev8DyZjO_EZ84eupG8jdlk3boYAx5qR5hGXEUimgwaCGoIxh_gNwYWcDzflZ8nucJmBl8k9fmqFvE98oWDlZUEyrrLyuLzmYtu_3BydW-BkPvSIZSv6MOOHLC6CPbr1RzLdueYwYfMzyl43/s3264/34C90462-4FF5-4BDB-A8A3-1968F651C08D.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3264" data-original-width="2448" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0PNcLBjNE8m_ynOcRLYnAzeFWLoCPFM5pUt70rev8DyZjO_EZ84eupG8jdlk3boYAx5qR5hGXEUimgwaCGoIxh_gNwYWcDzflZ8nucJmBl8k9fmqFvE98oWDlZUEyrrLyuLzmYtu_3BydW-BkPvSIZSv6MOOHLC6CPbr1RzLdueYwYfMzyl43/s320/34C90462-4FF5-4BDB-A8A3-1968F651C08D.jpeg" width="240" /></a></div><br />Can’t sleep (just relax yourself) (my pillow is lumpy)<p></p><p>Can’t Sleep (try not to wriggle) </p><p>I’m soooo tired. (you’ve got to work in the morning)</p><p>Sore back (I’ll just stretch a little)</p><p>Hot (and poke my feet out)</p><p>Sticky (my f’ing feet are cold now)</p><p>Roll over (be stealthy) (don’t be annoying)</p><p>Roll back (sorry about that)</p><p>Thinking… (just think of quiet things!) (imagine the fields over the road) (listen to the wind)</p><p>Whoa! That’s a good idea! (fuck, what a great idea!) (wow, that could work really well)</p><p>Hmmmmm… mmm… huh…!</p><p>Mmm… (no, you can’t start a project at 3.56 in the morning on a work day!)</p><p>I could use all of my gold threads (a squillion thoughts, each better than the last)</p><p>Start now? (no, you Can Not Start Now!) (Go To Sleeeeeeep!)</p><p>I might as well use them really (ffs! think about quiet things!)</p><p> (you could use the old brocade and that blue mohair you got from the market)</p><p>I think I’m drifting now (I think I’m falling asleep)</p><p> (we could go to Spotlight on the way home)</p><p>Yes, definitely nicely drowsy (or Lincraft at lunchtime I suppose)</p><p>That’s so much better (I’m pleasantly drifting away) (nearly gone) </p><p> (thoughts are quiet now, if textured)</p><p> (golden) </p><p> (fluffy) </p><p> </p><p> (pretty)</p><p><br /></p><p>BEEP! BEEP! BEEP! BEEP! BEEP! BEEP! BEEP! BEEP! BEEP! BEEP! BEEP! BEEP! BEEP! </p>Bobby Lahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10370328648446816338noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21900103.post-11984898519974908822022-11-12T10:50:00.001+11:002022-11-12T10:50:32.809+11:00The Gardener In His Natural Habitat, November 2022<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqgh_nWdTMv7OTic2gmWTBpdFwAbnxSNXKk6aaSVelhSWdkBh5Lxu23okk0jTCYgtlDrg82mnPW8o1XRu_D1JNj2ZIPURrVb2DHZAAPzsCAlrANsXrHOc7s3Vo6xjuIi9v6h5HVlLoRgcUyxOMxWrNR4cDyf7zwcHxb2jQ4qQf2p-wYy59yg/s3264/5D2B5237-4E20-41B3-9B00-D30356F1720A.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3264" data-original-width="2448" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqgh_nWdTMv7OTic2gmWTBpdFwAbnxSNXKk6aaSVelhSWdkBh5Lxu23okk0jTCYgtlDrg82mnPW8o1XRu_D1JNj2ZIPURrVb2DHZAAPzsCAlrANsXrHOc7s3Vo6xjuIi9v6h5HVlLoRgcUyxOMxWrNR4cDyf7zwcHxb2jQ4qQf2p-wYy59yg/s320/5D2B5237-4E20-41B3-9B00-D30356F1720A.jpeg" width="240" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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font-size: medium;">She dwelt upon the untrodden ways</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Beside the springs of Dove,</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">A Maid whom there were none to praise</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">And very few to love:</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">***</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">A violet by a mossy stone</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Half hidden from the eye!</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">-Fair as a star, when only one</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Is shining in the sky.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">***</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">She lived unknown, and few could know</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">When Lucy ceased to be:</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">But she is in her grave, and oh,</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">The difference to me!</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">*</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; text-align: left;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; text-align: left;">I wrote this, below, 20 years ago tomorrow. </span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; text-align: left;">But as I speak tonight, it’s 40 years ago not far from here, that my own little Lucy ceased to be and it struck me as I walked outside in the middle of the night that now was about the time.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">I was wrong about the song, apparently.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">***</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><i><br /></i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><i>it was twenty years ago today...</i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><i>...my baby died in her sleep. which is what we all say is how we want to go isn't it?</i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><i>she's a blur, a dream.</i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><i>i pinch myself and know her to be a fact.</i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><i>i broke my finger yesterday. now i feel sickly and ouch and annoyed and it's fitting to feel a bit low today.</i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><i>didn't do it on purpose of course and it's a bloody nuisance but sometimes one looks for a reason to emphasise the pain you want to feel.</i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><i>just so you don't think you're forgetting, or something.</i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><i>she's not my handy topic, my maudlin common thread that we might have, my deep reason for you to empathise.</i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><i>i've never put it public like this and i'm healthy about it and so on but she truly did exist and i forget that a bit</i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><i>and usually it's ok, but </i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><i>they played 'the first time ever i saw your face' which is about her baby being born, they played it on the radio on the way home from 5 hours at the hospital last night.</i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><i>how do they know to play it every year on her birthday or this her death day?</i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><i>my brain gets it. some people die young and some don't. but today i feel sad and sick a bit and the mid-day movie's crap and my finger is throbbing to the rhythm.</i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><i><br /></i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><i>lucille gladys melia . january 4th 1982 - september 4th 1982</i></span></p>Bobby Lahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10370328648446816338noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21900103.post-63301242911707568152022-06-09T16:27:00.009+10:002022-06-09T16:56:42.997+10:00My One True’s Gift <div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: center;"><br /></div>Finished Object. 20 x 9 cm plus loops. For info regarding their use, go <a href="https://spinhistory.com/2019/07/24/using-a-knitting-belt/">here.</a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQbDO3XB00hA77KtoLPMBebUwyL00lAYHv3y9jcggxQFbCZn1qlp69FGWSHtXroT_GfLD1VHKtTnrJ_PPxL9ob-OsE-Y9vcsvn17A3l7VSVAPoenln768MVcOXpf7Cnl7daFHYPibGTANx-H9ibEGWUVRoSsFLZs6dQfNgsJQASKHaZITceQ/s2954/ED857321-A991-426E-A1BB-25869E07EDEB.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2954" data-original-width="2382" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQbDO3XB00hA77KtoLPMBebUwyL00lAYHv3y9jcggxQFbCZn1qlp69FGWSHtXroT_GfLD1VHKtTnrJ_PPxL9ob-OsE-Y9vcsvn17A3l7VSVAPoenln768MVcOXpf7Cnl7daFHYPibGTANx-H9ibEGWUVRoSsFLZs6dQfNgsJQASKHaZITceQ/s320/ED857321-A991-426E-A1BB-25869E07EDEB.jpeg" width="258" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">After questioning everyone for information (thanks everyone) regarding the use of knitting belts, I have had a go at making one. Much to my disappointment, I had neither horse hair nor coconut fibre at hand, to stuff it. Unusual that I don't have everything I need in my room!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">(I've used other stuff now. Pictured below).</div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I contemplated using a heavy, raw silk fabric (cut into strips and shoved in tightly). Silk was used in ancient armour because it has the ability to slow arrows and swords and such like. I haven't tested the theory so don't try it at home, but it is a <i>gritty</i>, fine and dense fibre. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Mozzie's won't bite you through the finest silk cloth.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">But, I thought, the needle may need to be <i>held</i> somewhat, by the stuffing. So I'll wait (I didn't wait). I looked inside our vintage 1950's lounge suite (it has a massive tear in it) but they've used cotton rag stuffing so I couldn't raid that either. (I later wondered if it might work after all, but too late).</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Oh, that's right! I can use sisal and will go immediately to cut a piece off some rope! (I did).</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I thought I'd share the process:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJtqhmYHGFxoTzejInZXTRZW35-oQSzEeg8TFiF19rIiAiBh0oEFh1csjd_DjHjgjWHHvOtD2LoEyEXpOmpMUQY_uGeN1U_7--f2KxYakS-8zSxmcgwLPQPgMnAjrH-CdpJtbqYrX_ROQIfJo2MvYIP1SiZG5HZ1BRMXBV8zocRAi4DBjyXg/s2858/1F9721CB-2D97-4643-BCE0-5BE4140FC41C.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2342" data-original-width="2858" height="262" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJtqhmYHGFxoTzejInZXTRZW35-oQSzEeg8TFiF19rIiAiBh0oEFh1csjd_DjHjgjWHHvOtD2LoEyEXpOmpMUQY_uGeN1U_7--f2KxYakS-8zSxmcgwLPQPgMnAjrH-CdpJtbqYrX_ROQIfJo2MvYIP1SiZG5HZ1BRMXBV8zocRAi4DBjyXg/s320/1F9721CB-2D97-4643-BCE0-5BE4140FC41C.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I've left the stitching open here, waiting for stuffing. You can see the silver studs or rivets at the ends, <span style="text-align: left;">through the four thicknesses of leather. Tuck the loops in the ends and bang a stud/rivet through all 4 layers. I did this first, before stitching, so I could stitch right up to the gaps.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIoEIGotEkX8FvyRMhFgA0y9wKSN20cOlLZ9azs32mycTY4UaEUN4cnZsOv7Am9TZAeDA7hpUwxjx8ld1JUkzoCbaSKkDm86a73qP0DqnHRKcQ-S-i1Da0NlPaGFz1WmsbIm1vYhIxscb-u1YkDaR2YKCnvn-1Wvw8qCN4hJu36_dFDCdeaw/s2714/26CA95E1-5C7A-488D-89C6-31D79D1FC06A.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2448" data-original-width="2714" height="289" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIoEIGotEkX8FvyRMhFgA0y9wKSN20cOlLZ9azs32mycTY4UaEUN4cnZsOv7Am9TZAeDA7hpUwxjx8ld1JUkzoCbaSKkDm86a73qP0DqnHRKcQ-S-i1Da0NlPaGFz1WmsbIm1vYhIxscb-u1YkDaR2YKCnvn-1Wvw8qCN4hJu36_dFDCdeaw/s320/26CA95E1-5C7A-488D-89C6-31D79D1FC06A.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><div><br /></div>The template is 20cm long and 9cm wide. The holes are roughly 2.5cm apart down the centre, then the outside rows of holes are in between (staggered) and roughly down a line that runs between the side and centre lines. Push a chalky pencil (or poke an awl) through these points to mark the leather, then punch the holes for your needles. Mine are small holes, maybe 3mm at the most... even a little less... because the leather isn't stiff (as it probably should be) so they will stretch soon enough.<div><div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibaU2xEJdz4nw8bZsb_oPBMN3kdNyyJoTBlAW-GkbUGMOo7Vech82GRI-gyVLYiFznGs5OUMTxkhtsuD0MKGXmfz8jfXEHVRrZc8K5bgTNNbhpr9rx8t0eI1n9XGqoH1GbBoZbTy1okz9hOAzaRBULS9FNmcwOKNKcDfy2ycrwILI5BCDq0w/s2302/39B6057B-5A08-467B-B8EF-42500AB2CCC7.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2206" data-original-width="2302" height="307" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibaU2xEJdz4nw8bZsb_oPBMN3kdNyyJoTBlAW-GkbUGMOo7Vech82GRI-gyVLYiFznGs5OUMTxkhtsuD0MKGXmfz8jfXEHVRrZc8K5bgTNNbhpr9rx8t0eI1n9XGqoH1GbBoZbTy1okz9hOAzaRBULS9FNmcwOKNKcDfy2ycrwILI5BCDq0w/s320/39B6057B-5A08-467B-B8EF-42500AB2CCC7.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><div><br /></div>I decided to put loops at the ends. I might have had one end with a long strap and a loop at the other, but I don't have a long strap's worth of leather. I'll find something, a cord, some bale-twine. I figure if I have a loop, I can pull the long end through and tuck it anyway so whilst I have plenty of little buckles, I didn't intend to use one. (Update: I purchased a belt strap from a leather worker at the Vic Market for $11 AU, my only cost).</div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijlo9OVNZeZqIdI7C_O-TSwUfvBL3um5ff-o63h1C7qSbm5PiPuY6qpp39ec_bqm9n7m394doc1X-r48ARxUegTzlBnWdkDgl8r16SnNukZDK5qtkcE312IF-GNOIFQtG9PT_ENG6l3vP0dQd1A7Hb_xsN4e0yIznffSvFurNDy7blJ2Z0sg/s2571/427E0A71-5AFA-4342-BBEF-E9D7F05058F7.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2571" data-original-width="2448" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijlo9OVNZeZqIdI7C_O-TSwUfvBL3um5ff-o63h1C7qSbm5PiPuY6qpp39ec_bqm9n7m394doc1X-r48ARxUegTzlBnWdkDgl8r16SnNukZDK5qtkcE312IF-GNOIFQtG9PT_ENG6l3vP0dQd1A7Hb_xsN4e0yIznffSvFurNDy7blJ2Z0sg/s320/427E0A71-5AFA-4342-BBEF-E9D7F05058F7.jpeg" width="305" /></a></div><span style="text-align: center;"><div><span style="text-align: center;"><br /></span></div>This stitch I know as Glove stitch. I pulled 3 strands of strong linen, together, through a bees wax candle. I left enough at the beginning to secure later (so I could stitch it to itself). </span></div><div><span style="text-align: center;">Bring your needle up through the first hole, now wind around and back and up through the same hole. Next, go around again but up into the next hole. </span><span style="text-align: center;">Hold it in place as you go and be firm. Repeat. </span></div><div><span style="text-align: center;">It might have been sensible to run a bead of glue down, inside, before I stitched it... but I didn't want to have a sticky mess.</span></div><div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxnO3gVo28LRtdQc1d_xzUCoon50x93OurPkBTEIjkjVHJBhdSpVI7Dcf2zRE9qzKW7Quh5CCQSF_cUIT2hNSUQ5dktTbAZvqwgqq9PEhz7u8Sop7vbYfAbpNjXZ_i_owCqGxieZb2GbFNO5rILANW4ocvP1ZuMZcFPt6Jo91LafxqZJUvbg/s2614/449EA8CE-99F8-4853-84DB-3020CD7CBA79.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2614" data-original-width="2448" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxnO3gVo28LRtdQc1d_xzUCoon50x93OurPkBTEIjkjVHJBhdSpVI7Dcf2zRE9qzKW7Quh5CCQSF_cUIT2hNSUQ5dktTbAZvqwgqq9PEhz7u8Sop7vbYfAbpNjXZ_i_owCqGxieZb2GbFNO5rILANW4ocvP1ZuMZcFPt6Jo91LafxqZJUvbg/s320/449EA8CE-99F8-4853-84DB-3020CD7CBA79.jpeg" width="300" /></a></div><div><br /></div>My pictures are working backwards...sorry about that... </div><div>I punched the edge holes on the smallest setting, then marked the other piece through them, to be sure they lined up. I didn't bother measuring these edge holes, just so long as they are the same top and bottom (wrong sides facing).</div><div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLhQwFXmOKm_L5Ou-Pain0sc37IQaQgq-fNBS0hPdfkN7cJ2ifpzm3Xzh8-y857qwvkFFpLrjReukhqpvkHpQJBP5mbSSm2RnEefDf7QsDi5B9jv2AdVpTkrTTVNS3rNrbdm6UKbnXQHedqiq0LIUn4uQ5vxtLCQj0gwM8kU5lIdnSN6yfoA/s2448/690E1B00-5E12-4B68-9DFA-23DEA15EC1B9.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2413" data-original-width="2448" height="315" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLhQwFXmOKm_L5Ou-Pain0sc37IQaQgq-fNBS0hPdfkN7cJ2ifpzm3Xzh8-y857qwvkFFpLrjReukhqpvkHpQJBP5mbSSm2RnEefDf7QsDi5B9jv2AdVpTkrTTVNS3rNrbdm6UKbnXQHedqiq0LIUn4uQ5vxtLCQj0gwM8kU5lIdnSN6yfoA/s320/690E1B00-5E12-4B68-9DFA-23DEA15EC1B9.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7_UfbVFFJeKjb7Ls0FK_aeFFfDubOxZjkjXOhJKTKasRNMyo74rI5IbxZhB3DF7Iso_331hyEmZZI1DGPkPk2m0gQyHhLnWQIOjYHvdYk-LEm0OEKseJsNXnIRptFuMRvq0GJnJN0qCVl44rCkSXlncrZzkas5PKbijI3H3e_eW0EFZtOzQ/s2539/989446DB-AECE-4642-AFEA-06B8199C0A5F.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2539" data-original-width="2448" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7_UfbVFFJeKjb7Ls0FK_aeFFfDubOxZjkjXOhJKTKasRNMyo74rI5IbxZhB3DF7Iso_331hyEmZZI1DGPkPk2m0gQyHhLnWQIOjYHvdYk-LEm0OEKseJsNXnIRptFuMRvq0GJnJN0qCVl44rCkSXlncrZzkas5PKbijI3H3e_eW0EFZtOzQ/s320/989446DB-AECE-4642-AFEA-06B8199C0A5F.jpeg" width="309" /></a></div><div><br /></div>My father was a fireman so I never burn candles in the house. Maybe it was our housefire when I was little that put me off? But this little beauty is very handy for things like this or to strengthen thread for quilting (if I did quilting anymore that is, and I might yet).</div><div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDEpBZ3HuBjKtaLYifPa0SR8TqXUDXxI_Ahl_7naPpZj-nzzpw5UJABdD9EtcKbn7ar0mnj20EqfXmvsgwYZLxRsSdPgXJeOWWJ8tIwpJEDBXKqy-trIed_hkUHP5KF0KgVCADSuCwnwZuXeFPP5Pg16B1IcEdv2iZL8E70vS8uzOnklIXZw/s2575/B8D0F405-B670-40F7-847E-54A18E3EB9A8.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2575" data-original-width="2448" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDEpBZ3HuBjKtaLYifPa0SR8TqXUDXxI_Ahl_7naPpZj-nzzpw5UJABdD9EtcKbn7ar0mnj20EqfXmvsgwYZLxRsSdPgXJeOWWJ8tIwpJEDBXKqy-trIed_hkUHP5KF0KgVCADSuCwnwZuXeFPP5Pg16B1IcEdv2iZL8E70vS8uzOnklIXZw/s320/B8D0F405-B670-40F7-847E-54A18E3EB9A8.jpeg" width="304" /></a></div><br />Careful not to mark them one way and then try and put them together the other way, like I did. The holes didn't line up!<p></p></div><div>I've ordered long double pointed needles in a couple of brands (ok, three brands. 40cm and 35cm. It's my birthday next month so I crumble willingly over the Paypal button). </div><div><br /></div><div>I'm looking forward to trialling the method. I've been noticing that when I use dpn's, I 'prop' the right needle a bit already, so it seems a natural next step.</div><div><br /></div><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEbYVd5dAI_SPKEm7uPGkxWG-q69Gy0zHnOCZAj3Rio7TerQ11Vb4vd4MEIn6CuHIVvucHeF2UmnvVJYEiUJE7SiMpBNyL1cSLTjzFS6V7HGb1brdZmsJU220wG_bFhPITxuEBEm49jE0oiVknVQz02LAtQ-KgXgRyipgTRTjWj_mHrPfalw/s1664/279716727_736025524070729_6227057360716037130_n.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1664" data-original-width="1536" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEbYVd5dAI_SPKEm7uPGkxWG-q69Gy0zHnOCZAj3Rio7TerQ11Vb4vd4MEIn6CuHIVvucHeF2UmnvVJYEiUJE7SiMpBNyL1cSLTjzFS6V7HGb1brdZmsJU220wG_bFhPITxuEBEm49jE0oiVknVQz02LAtQ-KgXgRyipgTRTjWj_mHrPfalw/s320/279716727_736025524070729_6227057360716037130_n.jpg" width="295" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div>EDIT: Here we are, I found some stuff! Jute from a coffee sack, nylon tulle cut into 5x5cm bits, heavy linen (heavy rug hooking open-weave), strands of jute from a coffee sack and some ancient (possibly) mariners (or fireman's) rope from my (fireman) Dad. </div><div>Ready to go, after I pulled the rope bits. Yay!</div></div><div><br /></div><div>Next, obviously, stuff it. Poke the filling down with a blunt object. Do a little at a time and compress it firmly as you go (don't wait until it's all in before shoving it down).</div><div>Now finish off the stitching or binding and secure your ends well.</div><div><br /></div><div>I have made a template in pdf but have to figure out how to add it.... in the meantime, here’s a pic. <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUOeyNG1kORsvHOTvcRRcQ2E96SAsfRX7nqXmHceTAvLKlMAo6pkUBa4wVeTmSNg1i1ubadii6qRaAVkEw2Oijbn0zuZCoBuKcbS4JicHNBWGWdIy5sERXphB7zoEeRKloG4pvsil8SDHQA0AFR0S_-BSIgEvppuHIgwDuCLc0GzsooLfdTg/s2970/5C6F7E02-2A22-4326-8D6A-D8D83AE5AE2C.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2970" data-original-width="2228" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUOeyNG1kORsvHOTvcRRcQ2E96SAsfRX7nqXmHceTAvLKlMAo6pkUBa4wVeTmSNg1i1ubadii6qRaAVkEw2Oijbn0zuZCoBuKcbS4JicHNBWGWdIy5sERXphB7zoEeRKloG4pvsil8SDHQA0AFR0S_-BSIgEvppuHIgwDuCLc0GzsooLfdTg/w300-h400/5C6F7E02-2A22-4326-8D6A-D8D83AE5AE2C.jpeg" width="300" /></a></div><br /></div>Bobby Lahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10370328648446816338noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21900103.post-92091272415961115252022-05-09T09:51:00.000+10:002022-05-09T09:51:03.789+10:00My Neighbour's Family Treasures, Part 2.<p> <span style="text-align: center;">These embroidered cloths are
from the home </span><span style="text-align: center;">(pictured below) </span><span style="text-align: center;">in Dunblane, Scotland that was a family holding of my neighbour Al McInnes. The same family responsible for the horse
shoe jumper posted some time back (on Facebook, but also pictured below).</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Young women of old were required to
have a basic repertoire of needlework skills and to produce embellished
tableware, bedding, undergarments and children’s wear for their families.
Starting before marriage with their ‘hope’ chest and with school samplers,
these amazing skills we now cherish and continue, though without the expectation. I'm sure the love was always there, in the making, but op shops are full of old doileys (for example) that nobody wants (except for all of us) and nobody uses (except us).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I’ve always been hugely
inspired by what my foremothers considered the ordinary, basic skills of their
domestic life. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;">We watched our grandmothers
and the old women knitting and ‘doing’ the whole time and thought nothing of
it, not realizing the incredible structural engineering and intricacy of such
ordinary crafts. Obviously we do understand it. Obviously <i>we </i>knew what we were looking at but I've had many a comment about my embroidering or knitting being a <i>granny's </i>thing to do. Not as cool as painting or printmaking (which I love). I've had plenty of eye-rolls when people ask what I've been up to. The whole craft world has gone (largely) under the radar of the art world and this might be the boon! The incredible disguised as the ordinary.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"></p><div style="text-align: left;">My ‘<i>If I was stuck on an
island and had to choose one book</i>’ is the <a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/20776" target="_blank">Encyclopedia of Needlework by Theresede Dillmon</a>t. In it are all the things you will need as a conscientious home-keeper. My copy is worn and earmarked and precious.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5N3tug79JZPKLHRZ-jgmONzY-pYZPsycCQrzsJK0Cpyr812-vyGjBOkdHKPuWZ6xD3uvGIGqbilXTiryji7GuiSEFVoFsE6yKJpalFQAEpUJmoW19ALch_olQxhF2tXtyRzOK8B5bTyKNTNw4kHorYx8uijXwVs3Z8Boj_pQ0VZoXWffbLg/s320/image2.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="240" data-original-width="320" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5N3tug79JZPKLHRZ-jgmONzY-pYZPsycCQrzsJK0Cpyr812-vyGjBOkdHKPuWZ6xD3uvGIGqbilXTiryji7GuiSEFVoFsE6yKJpalFQAEpUJmoW19ALch_olQxhF2tXtyRzOK8B5bTyKNTNw4kHorYx8uijXwVs3Z8Boj_pQ0VZoXWffbLg/w400-h300/image2.jpeg" width="400" /></a><p></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPb2MuFWW_dOhik5jyxuDU8_28OHsVWKIuuvc5m7wLmo853et4duBGkhIYekoa9gbUmNdG4FOtQTr9VdPeJOL59QuRhO5L1jH0v9fS3nOw_E_Yc47TbPpYFNaEKuJZS7sh5-9zeB5BRckDb26-P0GWO_tTRXWXNsRHPHmMqfhw-wOKI8n6pA/s320/image3.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="310" data-original-width="320" height="310" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPb2MuFWW_dOhik5jyxuDU8_28OHsVWKIuuvc5m7wLmo853et4duBGkhIYekoa9gbUmNdG4FOtQTr9VdPeJOL59QuRhO5L1jH0v9fS3nOw_E_Yc47TbPpYFNaEKuJZS7sh5-9zeB5BRckDb26-P0GWO_tTRXWXNsRHPHmMqfhw-wOKI8n6pA/s1600/image3.jpeg" width="320" /></a></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">It's difficult to see with my rubbish Ipad camera (I have a whiz bang camera still in the box waiting for me to grow some whatsits and fire it up). This piece of Netting Work if the only I have ever seen where the net is hand knotted before being embroidered.</p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSYpeg48yIKZWCTmU-Et2E42mtTXLidfkGHjjN-DO0t2zAWwHvPtqf465n0GVVJ2993BSqM3mYjS_Un6yjaS9kRZ7DS4PG6FIm0IX-XZSsnXs98mEX-lFFFRoOnoD0hl1vzUzWxAULYaGbMgk_5EDDmKlsMRf7Xcr-oLv-2PFRYNz_VAjlVw/s320/image0%20-%20Copy.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="320" data-original-width="240" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSYpeg48yIKZWCTmU-Et2E42mtTXLidfkGHjjN-DO0t2zAWwHvPtqf465n0GVVJ2993BSqM3mYjS_Un6yjaS9kRZ7DS4PG6FIm0IX-XZSsnXs98mEX-lFFFRoOnoD0hl1vzUzWxAULYaGbMgk_5EDDmKlsMRf7Xcr-oLv-2PFRYNz_VAjlVw/s1600/image0%20-%20Copy.jpeg" width="240" /></a></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEglZL6jwUmHFL_hPe5W75Pd0W232wEAK5Ra0oA1P336j7hHsRrpzSIPWILxuK1hiUUf5LNf4uyn9rGPGqg1eysRnU0-ToEudci5HBEqcQ5KqEWwJf1wljC7bc4ZrwLYkKfuGId7JXdle0HAKweyQ1mELow-E4xGzat7q6l2xt_ExpX_o1Ej7Q/s320/image1%20-%20Copy.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="320" data-original-width="240" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEglZL6jwUmHFL_hPe5W75Pd0W232wEAK5Ra0oA1P336j7hHsRrpzSIPWILxuK1hiUUf5LNf4uyn9rGPGqg1eysRnU0-ToEudci5HBEqcQ5KqEWwJf1wljC7bc4ZrwLYkKfuGId7JXdle0HAKweyQ1mELow-E4xGzat7q6l2xt_ExpX_o1Ej7Q/s1600/image1%20-%20Copy.jpeg" width="240" /></a></p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">Even what may appear to be a simple dinner table or bread basket cloth has a lot of work involved. These edges were compulsory fare when I started High School. Sooo boring, I thought then. But underneath it I was interested and henceforth noticed the work in these everyday objects. <i>Respect</i>!! It takes <i>forever</i>.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">The embroidered band here reminds me of a (much borrowed) book on Yugoslavian embroidery, which I used in my <a href="http://robynefmelia.blogspot.com/search/label/Crazy%20Quilt" target="_blank">crazy quilt</a>.</p></blockquote><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrK8uR-gMD-tnht1l9dAR0PunanORbMp_3_wGpjxv3t6-dUQE6Z_iu7pv-v5EvM0hQP6j4CFmk_Mo2ZbtQuYxnWbmZZBre8VanIkE0U4TA04drVyAJvLBfqJk9zRI1YTfkhJup7DvJVYskWrPzHXMZQ8Ck9ixq5fnDytxdjySj1TkgucB_Og/s320/image6.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="318" data-original-width="320" height="318" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrK8uR-gMD-tnht1l9dAR0PunanORbMp_3_wGpjxv3t6-dUQE6Z_iu7pv-v5EvM0hQP6j4CFmk_Mo2ZbtQuYxnWbmZZBre8VanIkE0U4TA04drVyAJvLBfqJk9zRI1YTfkhJup7DvJVYskWrPzHXMZQ8Ck9ixq5fnDytxdjySj1TkgucB_Og/s1600/image6.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2SwOi-DsPHJH3EXIuTKhC2xLCapjZX_u2fURDbwj2y7In5jB_fwQtxVXEzZg23PS2TlqgNpr4RXqti8d_DAh4QdnRQkpWtBDv2UmlXoSQiwvnaGR6V70cLiTRjJkismC14V_X8kK4jZ86p1hpZ6x6XH9VH7ehcRvd9FszwXmLLEhiSUC7ig/s320/image5.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="216" data-original-width="320" height="216" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2SwOi-DsPHJH3EXIuTKhC2xLCapjZX_u2fURDbwj2y7In5jB_fwQtxVXEzZg23PS2TlqgNpr4RXqti8d_DAh4QdnRQkpWtBDv2UmlXoSQiwvnaGR6V70cLiTRjJkismC14V_X8kK4jZ86p1hpZ6x6XH9VH7ehcRvd9FszwXmLLEhiSUC7ig/s1600/image5.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">Another dinner cloth with hours and hours of edging work. Each leaf will be pad stitched underneath before the satin stitching on top.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjaNUoPP67GFKrzUbr3Z1xXM2YPhFBOgMckYEJO1vjK8dCUmOXlyr2amK94AQFB29J0S6Vijol5EC8rOMo03CJn_ZNlBY4YHy3LoPnlNfLvCYl0In4v5kremIzCW-HbAzovv_kZvfg2FRL26gdoKileBkwni1Qt6DYyfMdQJrEavuRUSNM5eA/s1015/image1%5B611%5D.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1001" data-original-width="1015" height="316" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjaNUoPP67GFKrzUbr3Z1xXM2YPhFBOgMckYEJO1vjK8dCUmOXlyr2amK94AQFB29J0S6Vijol5EC8rOMo03CJn_ZNlBY4YHy3LoPnlNfLvCYl0In4v5kremIzCW-HbAzovv_kZvfg2FRL26gdoKileBkwni1Qt6DYyfMdQJrEavuRUSNM5eA/s320/image1%5B611%5D.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtsk5kLpt4Hw7G210yCBHAu_qtZtbWKRp1GbhUbz2S3xMbkIeh5MfbzAn9xbqeCR32dEkmZms5qsD3TP6Vk6l_s1rA6D-rXOJz4pU_FOy5Si4U8DB5sHdL_O9q8MjVD9U8mMd9BKPKGWaOlxwUYwH-QgNp6wuIJ8qYAaSyDeWf83KHzVbM2w/s320/image1.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="320" data-original-width="298" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtsk5kLpt4Hw7G210yCBHAu_qtZtbWKRp1GbhUbz2S3xMbkIeh5MfbzAn9xbqeCR32dEkmZms5qsD3TP6Vk6l_s1rA6D-rXOJz4pU_FOy5Si4U8DB5sHdL_O9q8MjVD9U8mMd9BKPKGWaOlxwUYwH-QgNp6wuIJ8qYAaSyDeWf83KHzVbM2w/s1600/image1.jpeg" width="298" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHMLdciVg4gnUuJ4y9aMOyOyaAzDtkM2SiiLrVkktHphBJXa5C3Vuv3QYxygPY9qJIA-Jhwh9rQhtyKMD8rYmzb9DwGQaOzkD7c_Wrw1JmsV7BV5w_7LSoPfnO4JLAalWcxoXTu7k2xTnYgWRJNrGFYq67xGcHKLN8fQt4or-xbjKfVYtF-g/s320/image0.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="240" data-original-width="320" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHMLdciVg4gnUuJ4y9aMOyOyaAzDtkM2SiiLrVkktHphBJXa5C3Vuv3QYxygPY9qJIA-Jhwh9rQhtyKMD8rYmzb9DwGQaOzkD7c_Wrw1JmsV7BV5w_7LSoPfnO4JLAalWcxoXTu7k2xTnYgWRJNrGFYq67xGcHKLN8fQt4or-xbjKfVYtF-g/s1600/image0.jpeg" width="320" /></a><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvBO9R4DPKWUosZN_cMvXeliOFphnExHbJ2igUruVDvO2Tn97ke-HOxfun-Xw6TBloRSscvnx2OkG5RGdlsKW-I1O3QR8B-FvRpyQpAYbLBUdxOLnB33VeAGkemsiN59lbakGhOFJZLj_50ZNPAWf5E0nmCh_-4-TrvtPdEC6uzUPwBn5c-w/s703/image0%5B610%5D.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="508" data-original-width="703" height="231" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvBO9R4DPKWUosZN_cMvXeliOFphnExHbJ2igUruVDvO2Tn97ke-HOxfun-Xw6TBloRSscvnx2OkG5RGdlsKW-I1O3QR8B-FvRpyQpAYbLBUdxOLnB33VeAGkemsiN59lbakGhOFJZLj_50ZNPAWf5E0nmCh_-4-TrvtPdEC6uzUPwBn5c-w/s320/image0%5B610%5D.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Dunblane, Scotland. The Horse Shoe lace jumper below was made here too.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidKB_EG-v6syKCv1ZyevNyc9LjFR5DEzvlJ9QTSlpEGaWAFktGTZ0jpA69KXTDi1yP6ghgQkKjD7ERMTOi7TaeFKPv_Sa82O0Z0-WdB7WARdTY5OCNDOMihRge9DapYcKM1Y2nmPIyQAf-hLemzxn-3sRuWNKuJvkq23bc8KCnMpuY9nlZDw/s320/IMG_5069%5B625%5D.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="320" data-original-width="269" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidKB_EG-v6syKCv1ZyevNyc9LjFR5DEzvlJ9QTSlpEGaWAFktGTZ0jpA69KXTDi1yP6ghgQkKjD7ERMTOi7TaeFKPv_Sa82O0Z0-WdB7WARdTY5OCNDOMihRge9DapYcKM1Y2nmPIyQAf-hLemzxn-3sRuWNKuJvkq23bc8KCnMpuY9nlZDw/s1600/IMG_5069%5B625%5D.jpg" width="269" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Thanks to Al McInnes for sharing these amazing pieces.</div><p></p>Bobby Lahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10370328648446816338noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21900103.post-59110546579269490332021-09-06T09:38:00.003+10:002021-09-06T09:58:22.561+10:00Magnolia Inspiration<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-2MXLTZdbzkA/YTVZldJKj5I/AAAAAAAARMs/bu91QM8KKBUWv6VFaSq1f_yfI-I_vHW6QCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/D6E93877-E66E-4188-B074-CF8E4754992C.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1920" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-2MXLTZdbzkA/YTVZldJKj5I/AAAAAAAARMs/bu91QM8KKBUWv6VFaSq1f_yfI-I_vHW6QCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/D6E93877-E66E-4188-B074-CF8E4754992C.jpeg" width="300" /></a></div><br /><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-cGck1di9k0E/YTVUrM4-DcI/AAAAAAAARMA/O36flHIv6AQL9c3xs0_1ll_21LMIwe2GQCLcBGAsYHQ/s1547/3BF317B9-DB49-4E06-A009-F12742DF7DF2.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1547" data-original-width="1404" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-cGck1di9k0E/YTVUrM4-DcI/AAAAAAAARMA/O36flHIv6AQL9c3xs0_1ll_21LMIwe2GQCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/3BF317B9-DB49-4E06-A009-F12742DF7DF2.jpeg" width="290" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-n6mJGzRMnR0/YTVUs8m1J2I/AAAAAAAARMM/RfkF8vsiWu4OiDOJYsRf3t-HrJxll076ACLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/857A101B-0DC2-4BEB-8DAB-8DE944502C8D.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1984" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-n6mJGzRMnR0/YTVUs8m1J2I/AAAAAAAARMM/RfkF8vsiWu4OiDOJYsRf3t-HrJxll076ACLcBGAsYHQ/s320/857A101B-0DC2-4BEB-8DAB-8DE944502C8D.jpeg" width="310" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-jsewtfNE_OI/YTVUsVU_EMI/AAAAAAAARMI/LWmEVKwOrL8rFVBhsb80Ky5MeZ0WKwbFACLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/4475770C-8AB9-4A16-B4F3-5FA5E19321B5.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="2003" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-jsewtfNE_OI/YTVUsVU_EMI/AAAAAAAARMI/LWmEVKwOrL8rFVBhsb80Ky5MeZ0WKwbFACLcBGAsYHQ/s320/4475770C-8AB9-4A16-B4F3-5FA5E19321B5.jpeg" width="313" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-RvTQclXBPpI/YTVUtu8wwCI/AAAAAAAARMQ/9wHMxiTycigysaOsJ2x7hTjLMI_XVymqgCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/C2E94950-66E1-4DB1-9644-13B087545FD8.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1871" data-original-width="2048" height="292" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-RvTQclXBPpI/YTVUtu8wwCI/AAAAAAAARMQ/9wHMxiTycigysaOsJ2x7hTjLMI_XVymqgCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/C2E94950-66E1-4DB1-9644-13B087545FD8.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-zoFtPStrEG8/YTVUvPXneaI/AAAAAAAARMU/elZ19xPCtiwIZjq_hLBg6PwgjUmUCG_UwCLcBGAsYHQ/s1959/E3ED7643-81C4-4F22-B0B0-B8E350A98BC7.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1959" data-original-width="1868" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-zoFtPStrEG8/YTVUvPXneaI/AAAAAAAARMU/elZ19xPCtiwIZjq_hLBg6PwgjUmUCG_UwCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/E3ED7643-81C4-4F22-B0B0-B8E350A98BC7.jpeg" width="305" /></a></div><br /> I can’t remember it’s name, but we saw this magnolia yesterday on our 5k lockdown walk. Sooo beautiful! The colours cry out to be knitted. Or, really, I think I like the project of organising possibilities in its own right.<p></p><p>So I’ve grabbed out my Jamieson’s of Shetland Spindrift samples and had a play. The colours aren’t exactly right, but in mixing colours or stitching close by, you can create another colour and I think you could do justice to nature in that way.</p><p>Besides, it’s a starting point.</p><p><br /></p>Bobby Lahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10370328648446816338noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21900103.post-66058222709270462332021-06-22T18:42:00.003+10:002021-06-22T18:42:47.304+10:00Picked Up The Cabinet... Trial Run For The Diorama<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ZhOobERzs_Q/YNGfzkF9QrI/AAAAAAAAREI/yiicofkwYaoT8hhJHuN9c1XTgfrm0QnXQCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/900E985E-BCDE-4542-9176-83C5C123754B.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1961" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ZhOobERzs_Q/YNGfzkF9QrI/AAAAAAAAREI/yiicofkwYaoT8hhJHuN9c1XTgfrm0QnXQCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/900E985E-BCDE-4542-9176-83C5C123754B.jpeg" /></a></div><p>I’ve just temporarily arranged the vintage millinery flowers from <a href="https://luccello.com.au/">l’ucello</a> in Melbourne. The darling kid I’ve shown you before. I know some of you feel a bit weird about it but the poor things (twins) were stillborn and not murdered, and I think it honors their beauty. The lovely fellow who made the case is Ben at <a href="http://www.wunderkammer.com.au/">Wunderkammer’s</a> dad (sorry, I can’t remember his name). It’s so beautifully made. </p><p></p><p>Hubby wants to do diorama’s and immediately spotted the old op shop tapestry, so we’ll adjust it to sit behind. Very happy and it’s exactly the size of our bookcase so will have a special place. In my heart.</p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-4GbeOgHecQg/YNGf5WYD9sI/AAAAAAAAREQ/pKmVK-A4lKY0pKOIxj8XRO5XuIH0eP7UwCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/09B72F2E-846D-465D-A5CF-7759D4301837.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1903" data-original-width="2048" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-4GbeOgHecQg/YNGf5WYD9sI/AAAAAAAAREQ/pKmVK-A4lKY0pKOIxj8XRO5XuIH0eP7UwCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/09B72F2E-846D-465D-A5CF-7759D4301837.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"> These two shops are a must see for touring Melbourne. Or for locals. </div><p></p>Bobby Lahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10370328648446816338noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21900103.post-48053681651804091342021-06-05T09:54:00.002+10:002021-06-05T09:54:21.606+10:00The Evolution Of Hanky Boxes Into Yarn Bowls And BeyondThis time, after shoving my yarn baskets into dilly bags (because it’s handier to work from a bowl than a bag, but you can’t carry them about....) I thought I could combine forces and turn a bowl into a bag.<div>So, this bowl is fairly big, 17 cm high and 30 wide, and I’m making some granny squares to sew around the lip. Not quite sure after that. I’ll do some crocheted rows maybe before and after then a strap or two. I’m sure it will become obvious.</div><div>This was a calendar and is lined with old wallpaper. I’ve also used a heavier card to make it quite sturdy. </div><div>All this because my knitting requires concentration to fix a mistake. Good old procrastination huh?</div><div>Everything is from my stash. Using up embroidery threads, Australian Tapestry Workshop wool, crochet cottons bought years back for face washers. Oh, plus some new Frangipani gansey wool, which is sturdy and a gorgeous dusty pink and will be great as the handles etc.</div><div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-bQFE-4FF_e0/YLq6J65Gv4I/AAAAAAAAQ6Y/9PpHr0VmXS02RETb-QFHQ8JjOLaVVc8YgCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/292A65AB-7751-4D0F-87D4-24CA4363E16C.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1723" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-bQFE-4FF_e0/YLq6J65Gv4I/AAAAAAAAQ6Y/9PpHr0VmXS02RETb-QFHQ8JjOLaVVc8YgCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/292A65AB-7751-4D0F-87D4-24CA4363E16C.jpeg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-q5hKy6kK-i4/YLq6J4zXAtI/AAAAAAAAQ6c/hj7HHiWZHYIDxY1e9T8k0hx_MFXrk6mYQCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/5CBEB88D-65C2-46DE-8D8E-A65A45B8AF3D.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1882" data-original-width="2048" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-q5hKy6kK-i4/YLq6J4zXAtI/AAAAAAAAQ6c/hj7HHiWZHYIDxY1e9T8k0hx_MFXrk6mYQCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/5CBEB88D-65C2-46DE-8D8E-A65A45B8AF3D.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p></p></div>Bobby Lahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10370328648446816338noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21900103.post-7438089664801391522021-05-04T06:14:00.002+10:002021-05-04T06:15:15.426+10:00This Article Fron Inspirations Magazine Newsletter<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; color: black; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td align="center" style="border-collapse: collapse;"><table align="center" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="columns2" style="width: 700px;"><tbody><tr><td align="center" class="plr20" style="border-collapse: collapse; padding: 60px 85px;"><table align="center" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="columns" style="width: 530px;"><tbody><tr><td style="border-collapse: collapse; padding-bottom: 30px; padding-top: 0px;" valign="top"><div align="left" style="color: #111111; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 38px; line-height: 45px;"><em>SALs, Samplers and Stitching Spots</em></div></td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="columns" style="width: 530px;"><tbody><tr><td style="border-collapse: collapse;" valign="top"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td style="border-collapse: collapse; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><div style="color: #0e0e10; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 25px;">We’ve covered so many topics in All Stitched Up! over the past few weeks, it is not surprising that we’ve received a delightfully mixed bag of responses from our community. We love how different articles will inspire different people and, sorry to be repetitive but we have to say it again, we never get tired of hearing from you!</div></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr><tr><td align="center" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-size: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px;"><table align="center" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="columns" style="width: 700px;"><tbody><tr><td align="center" class="plr201" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-size: 0px; padding-left: 20px !important; padding-right: 20px !important;"><img alt="" border="0" class="imagescale" height="450" src="https://mcusercontent.com/1888dbd8ae5d8fe23ea5b9b84/images/fdbc04cd-e8a3-43bb-8d16-7b4529f5a8de.jpg" style="border: 0px; height: auto; line-height: 0px; max-width: 700px; outline: none; width: 700px;" width="700" /></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr><tr><td align="center" style="border-collapse: collapse;"><table align="center" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="columns2" style="width: 700px;"><tbody><tr><td align="center" class="plr20" style="border-collapse: collapse; padding: 60px 85px;"><table align="center" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="columns" style="width: 530px;"><tbody><tr><td style="border-collapse: collapse;" valign="top"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td style="border-collapse: collapse; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><div style="color: #0e0e10; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 25px;">The article about stitch-alongs in <a href="https://www.inspirationsstudios.com/stitch-together/" style="color: #b8a67c; text-decoration: none; word-wrap: break-word;">All Stitched Up! issue #270</a> is still garnering responses, and as we believe you can never discover too many stitch-alongs or online stitching communities, please keep them coming! <br /><br />This week, we heard from<strong> Shalaya</strong> who brought our attention to the <a href="https://thesteadythread.com/pages/sal-2021" style="color: #b8a67c; text-decoration: none; word-wrap: break-word;">SAL from A Steady Thread</a>. It is a floral blackwork SAL which, Shalaya reports, offers so many creative opportunities for colour variations and different sizes. </div></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr><tr><td align="center" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-size: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px;"><table align="center" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="columns" style="width: 700px;"><tbody><tr><td align="center" class="plr201" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-size: 0px; padding-left: 20px !important; padding-right: 20px !important;"><img alt="" border="0" class="imagescale" height="409" src="https://mcusercontent.com/1888dbd8ae5d8fe23ea5b9b84/images/796e0b7c-2289-4021-a71a-b388b2e2a91f.jpg" style="border: 0px; height: auto; line-height: 0px; max-width: 700px; outline: none; width: 700px;" width="700" /></td></tr><tr><td align="left" class="plr201" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-size: 0px; padding-left: 20px !important; padding-right: 20px !important; padding-top: 10px;"><div style="color: #b8a67c; font-family: "Lucida Grande", "Lucida Sans Unicode", "Lucida Sans", "DejaVu Sans", Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 25px;"><strong>The start of the Embroidery Motifs from Old Dutch Samplers SAL</strong></div></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr><tr><td align="center" style="border-collapse: collapse;"><table align="center" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="columns2" style="width: 700px;"><tbody><tr><td align="center" class="plr20" style="border-collapse: collapse; padding: 60px 85px;"><table align="center" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="columns" style="width: 530px;"><tbody><tr><td style="border-collapse: collapse;" valign="top"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td style="border-collapse: collapse; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><div style="color: #0e0e10; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 25px;"><strong>Victoria Wakefield</strong> sent us a fantastic story about her own SAL experience. She had never heard of SALs until she discovered a Facebook page called ‘Embroidery Motifs from Old Dutch Samplers’. They were just about to start a SAL, designed by Robyne Melia that was called ‘Song of Solomon Ship Sampler’. Most of the motifs came from the book that gave the Facebook page its name, but the designer selected a range of historical patterns, themes and ideas to create a stunning project.</div></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr><tr><td align="center" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-size: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px;"><table align="center" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="columns" style="width: 700px;"><tbody><tr><td align="center" class="plr201" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-size: 0px; padding-left: 20px !important; padding-right: 20px !important;"><img alt="" border="0" class="imagescale" height="409" src="https://mcusercontent.com/1888dbd8ae5d8fe23ea5b9b84/images/0e5c7757-2160-4ea5-8257-e64484949bc5.jpg" style="border: 0px; height: auto; line-height: 0px; max-width: 700px; outline: none; width: 700px;" width="700" /></td></tr><tr><td align="left" class="plr201" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-size: 0px; padding-left: 20px !important; padding-right: 20px !important; padding-top: 10px;"><div style="color: #b8a67c; font-family: "Lucida Grande", "Lucida Sans Unicode", "Lucida Sans", "DejaVu Sans", Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 25px;"><strong>Embroidery Motifs from Old Dutch Samplers SAL</strong></div></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr><tr><td align="center" style="border-collapse: collapse;"><table align="center" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="columns2" style="width: 700px;"><tbody><tr><td align="center" class="plr20" style="border-collapse: collapse; padding: 60px 85px;"><table align="center" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="columns" style="width: 530px;"><tbody><tr><td style="border-collapse: collapse;" valign="top"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td style="border-collapse: collapse; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><div style="color: #0e0e10; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 25px;">Participants were encouraged to use linen and threads from their stash to complete the piece, so Victoria stitched on a piece of linen shoe lining fabric she had purchased years before and used DMC threads from her own collection.</div></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr><tr><td align="center" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-size: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px;"><table align="center" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="columns" style="width: 700px;"><tbody><tr><td align="center" class="plr201" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-size: 0px; padding-left: 20px !important; padding-right: 20px !important;"><img alt="" border="0" class="imagescale" height="489" src="https://mcusercontent.com/1888dbd8ae5d8fe23ea5b9b84/images/751334fd-9d27-426e-a37d-d746e3ef89e9.jpg" style="border: 0px; height: auto; line-height: 0px; max-width: 700px; outline: none; width: 700px;" width="700" /></td></tr><tr><td align="left" class="plr201" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-size: 0px; padding-left: 20px !important; padding-right: 20px !important; padding-top: 10px;"><div style="color: #b8a67c; font-family: "Lucida Grande", "Lucida Sans Unicode", "Lucida Sans", "DejaVu Sans", Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 25px;"><strong>The completed sampler, stitched by Victoria</strong></div></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr><tr><td align="center" style="border-collapse: collapse;"><table align="center" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="columns2" style="width: 700px;"><tbody><tr><td align="center" class="plr20" style="border-collapse: collapse; padding: 60px 85px;"><table align="center" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="columns" style="width: 530px;"><tbody><tr><td style="border-collapse: collapse;" valign="top"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td style="border-collapse: collapse; padding-bottom: 30px; padding-top: 0px;"><div style="color: #0e0e10; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 25px;">The aspect of the project she enjoyed most of all, however, was being able to speak with stitchers from all over the world and to share progress. </div></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="columns" style="width: 530px;"><tbody><tr><td style="border-collapse: collapse;" valign="top"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td class="pl15pr02" style="border-collapse: collapse; border-left-color: rgb(50, 50, 50); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 3px; padding-left: 50px; padding-right: 50px;" valign="top"><div align="left" style="color: #111111; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 28px; line-height: 35px;"><em>She even learnt some new terms, such as ‘frogging’ or unpicking one’s work – a term which is said to come from having to ‘rip-it, rip-it’! </em></div></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="columns" style="width: 530px;"><tbody><tr><td style="border-collapse: collapse;" valign="top"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td style="border-collapse: collapse; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 30px;"><div style="color: #0e0e10; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 25px;">But it is clear from the pictures, Victoria gained so much out of the experience. If you want to try this stunning design, <a href="https://www.etsy.com/au/listing/482395179/song-of-solomon-ship-sampler-cross?ref=shop_home_feat_1" style="color: #b8a67c; text-decoration: none; word-wrap: break-word;">Robyne Melia has it available for purchase on Etsy.</a></div></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table>Bobby Lahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10370328648446816338noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21900103.post-37277947523652778912021-04-30T15:01:00.005+10:002021-05-01T10:18:42.864+10:00Traditional Fishermen’s Ganseys/Guernseys/Jerseys Knit & Natter Zoom Night<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-rKirUFbants/YIuTmBoNrsI/AAAAAAAAQ34/8eVeMRZntWE8F0L1TOIYoX9pnwSNgfDuwCLcBGAsYHQ/s314/29E11E22-0DAE-4FF8-B064-393F2016E15C.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="314" data-original-width="236" height="400" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-rKirUFbants/YIuTmBoNrsI/AAAAAAAAQ34/8eVeMRZntWE8F0L1TOIYoX9pnwSNgfDuwCLcBGAsYHQ/w301-h400/29E11E22-0DAE-4FF8-B064-393F2016E15C.jpeg" width="301" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-l9jLQB_FjG0/YIuQXDUaR7I/AAAAAAAAQ3o/EfwxUBHUHOIhWAl64dTRqUkVIQOs19BBgCLcBGAsYHQ/s640/13F10C2C-E985-4EE5-BD0B-620A25B92747.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="481" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-l9jLQB_FjG0/YIuQXDUaR7I/AAAAAAAAQ3o/EfwxUBHUHOIhWAl64dTRqUkVIQOs19BBgCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/13F10C2C-E985-4EE5-BD0B-620A25B92747.jpeg" /></a></div><br />Well, zoom is hard work but it was worth getting up at 3.15am to prepare and be able to join the Knit & Natter at my 4am Friday morning. 7pm Thursday for Scotland. It was so interesting and informative. <p></p><p>The Ganseys have followed the fishermen. Elizabeth Lovick ventured (<a href="http://www.knittingbeyondthehebrides.org/lace/shetland.html">in one of her amazing books</a>) that wherever the Vikings went, there is knitting. These Ganseys, Guernseys or Jerseys followed the herring fishermen and the herring girls and like all crafts, were taken on by surrounding locals and developed into unique but connected variants. Just <i>gorgeous</i>. There is an old and strong tradition in Holland too.</p><p>This morning I started following up my notes, scribbled while others talked of their experiences and groups or books etc. I have already pre-purchased<a href="https://digilpin.com/collections/gansey/products/gansey-sourcebook"> ‘The Gansey Knitting Sourcebook’</a>, and nearly ordered a few others! But I do already have some of the best oldies, so have pored over them again. In fact, I’ve quite a few drawings in my various mole skins already, <i>lots</i>, and will cogitate further and come up with a jumper or two at some point. I think one for my honey and a more girly one. Plus a cardigan... hmmm...</p><p>It seems that <a href="http://www.guernseywool.co.uk/Wool_Colours.html">Frangipani</a> wool is the way to go. Apparently it wears amazingly, has brilliant stitch definition and washes beautifully etc. It turns out there is a big take up in the fishing communities of <a href="https://thenetloftak.com/pages/cordova-gansey-project">Cordova</a> in Alaska and they favour this wool. Why? Because wool is WARM! And lovely.</p><p>As for me, for now I’m really, really, really busy with my really, really, really big project of interpreting the knitwear in a favourite movie for hopefully a book (under my hat), and I shan’t be seen for some time! However, I did pull out my old Vintage Aran and have a play with the pattern in anticipation of the chat. It’s considered a Gansey, though the Aran versions incorporated a lot of the Celtic style cabling and may be a bit chunkier. I’m no expert though so don’t quote me! I made the poncho (and turned it into a bag) years ago and have a cardigan started. The cardigan is being pulled out and I’ll redesign it after the really, really, really busy period goes back to just really busy.</p><p><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Vlvj9o4qFLo/YIuQpl0qBFI/AAAAAAAAQ3w/yukTIGEeFkIY_TiE4Vtfi6HwBl5KXtlxwCLcBGAsYHQ/s800/6C39F91F-0584-4547-8992-459C52E05D57.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="602" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Vlvj9o4qFLo/YIuQpl0qBFI/AAAAAAAAQ3w/yukTIGEeFkIY_TiE4Vtfi6HwBl5KXtlxwCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/6C39F91F-0584-4547-8992-459C52E05D57.jpeg" /></a></p>Bobby Lahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10370328648446816338noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21900103.post-16198724290955677222021-04-23T09:52:00.023+10:002021-04-23T17:41:24.079+10:00Phillip Island Retreat<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleTallBody; font-size: 17px; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleTallBody; text-align: left;">You can see the ridges in this light so I thought I’d post a sneak pic below... without explanation! I’m not sure if my neck/head ache is due to knitting or sleeping on the wrong pillow and I’ve been using headphones too much and have tinnitus! Poor petal!</span><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-xN6dlo6AaGw/YIJ4HsPF1yI/AAAAAAAAQ2w/7RIXfdU_wOAUV2iuK_YNpNgL7UeORiscgCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/FD285C34-2EF7-4F21-BCE0-A3CEB9D01C92.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="300" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-xN6dlo6AaGw/YIJ4HsPF1yI/AAAAAAAAQ2w/7RIXfdU_wOAUV2iuK_YNpNgL7UeORiscgCLcBGAsYHQ/w400-h300/FD285C34-2EF7-4F21-BCE0-A3CEB9D01C92.jpeg" width="400" /> </a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;">Sitting and walking at Kitty Miller bay yesterday was a balm though. The waves and the beauty of it gets inside you. Our favourite place on the island. After walking and knitting for ages I just sank back onto the thick carex (or poa) while Ross was painting and melded into the view. The quiet helped my head.</span></div></span></div><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="200" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-iXBuEsYi9uc/YIJ4eYiShQI/AAAAAAAAQ3M/NpRu6gQO98kwfQJxyrVDCftqxOAc_qHcgCLcBGAsYHQ/w150-h200/85E09205-7D70-441A-9A9B-8DF3F85F2A3A.jpeg" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 238); color: #0000ee; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleTallBody; font-size: 17px; text-align: center; text-decoration: underline;" width="150" /><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 238); color: #0000ee; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleTallBody; font-size: 17px; text-align: center; text-decoration: underline;"> </span><p><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleTallBody; font-size: 17px;">We’re coming home today. I took heaps of work to do but forgot key ingredients like the green spindrift to finish the extended sleeve on Sadie’s cardigan (although it’s completely ready to graft otherwise), and somehow left home the size charts for the same! That was to be my biggest appointed task, to key the pattern into the program. The charts are all edited and ready to go so I was thinking the evenings here would be a perfect time to do it. Idiot! </span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleTallBody; font-size: 17px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleTallBody; font-size: 17px;">But I’ve managed to swatch lace patterns and make decisions, then despair at the amount of work I’ve set myself in compiling a book (a common thread with me, to turn things into huge undertakings) which both overwhelms and entices me, one mood dominating, then the other. Ha ha! Can’t lay blame for that one.</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-s9f9rRS_LF8/YIJ4Ep6HuBI/AAAAAAAAQ2o/T5F1KSSReXggwDb58uBkwlIhmPlA7OS3wCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/6085DD4C-014F-4AB4-AD8E-B74B562E98CF.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="300" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-s9f9rRS_LF8/YIJ4Ep6HuBI/AAAAAAAAQ2o/T5F1KSSReXggwDb58uBkwlIhmPlA7OS3wCLcBGAsYHQ/w400-h300/6085DD4C-014F-4AB4-AD8E-B74B562E98CF.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-rKWPYJdnubU/YIJ4FDnpUzI/AAAAAAAAQ2s/1QUG7hA_KTohCDi_tUO7uWSayY6DCwVfwCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/ADECD200-64E4-42CC-83A4-5D66D64D5C76.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-rKWPYJdnubU/YIJ4FDnpUzI/AAAAAAAAQ2s/1QUG7hA_KTohCDi_tUO7uWSayY6DCwVfwCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/ADECD200-64E4-42CC-83A4-5D66D64D5C76.jpeg" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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It has been washed firstly in bags on a wool cycle, then hand washed and thoroughly rinsed again.<br style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px;" />There are two cakes, I’m saying 440grams ($88) and 560grams ($112)... but they are little a bit over that. I will take $185 for both. Plus postage from Victoria Australia. So, AU$10 per 50g of very soft alpaca.<br style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px;" />It’s a beautiful colour, so rich and warm. Like wheat but deeper. 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But, I didn’t want to shove the cushion insert away (dead cover situation) so pulled out my tub of velvets. One of my tubs of velvet.</p><p>The orange velvet was a partly pulled apart garment my Grandma found in an op shop at least 30-40 years ago. It’s so beautiful I use it very carefully, but I’m glad to find a reason. The buttons are covered in it too.</p><p>I did fold and put away my pile of velvet but the floor is covered in fluff so I kind of went backwards, although one little job is off the list and the stash went down a little bit.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Rather than figure out a Drunkards Path patch, I just cut a piece of old brown paper into the circle, roughly drew the grid and shapes then cut them out, adding seam allowances.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-2aVTo1SDAjA/YALDWkLpVYI/AAAAAAAAQw0/4V6w9kFdTRUN4kPBRRg9fp6Xz0D3h2U1ACLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/961AB5A0-9214-4689-92B0-1C19DD08B6D7.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1971" height="400" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-2aVTo1SDAjA/YALDWkLpVYI/AAAAAAAAQw0/4V6w9kFdTRUN4kPBRRg9fp6Xz0D3h2U1ACLcBGAsYHQ/w385-h400/961AB5A0-9214-4689-92B0-1C19DD08B6D7.jpeg" width="385" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-4i1hYYXUf7I/YALDWB0HzpI/AAAAAAAAQws/HWlxt792Ft4YFYv60HU255HeMkqpovVjwCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/52F84A12-FDBD-4138-83AD-9CD0563FEF0E.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1958" data-original-width="2048" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-4i1hYYXUf7I/YALDWB0HzpI/AAAAAAAAQws/HWlxt792Ft4YFYv60HU255HeMkqpovVjwCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/52F84A12-FDBD-4138-83AD-9CD0563FEF0E.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-qfkyrkCRDZM/YALDXs5ZMNI/AAAAAAAAQw4/JxC0HwB_JvYY4SkOsKL1yVzorFQ8-8xWACLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/BE0232CE-3128-4704-9707-BFD6D802899F.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1918" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-qfkyrkCRDZM/YALDXs5ZMNI/AAAAAAAAQw4/JxC0HwB_JvYY4SkOsKL1yVzorFQ8-8xWACLcBGAsYHQ/s320/BE0232CE-3128-4704-9707-BFD6D802899F.jpeg" /></a><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-XSJx5CiBVDE/YALDWt2ujmI/AAAAAAAAQww/fCFpppMXcOkn77tSRoGlsaXtUYXNYzG-ACLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/BBEEFB9E-4EAE-4C2C-BCC3-891922721C78.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"> </a><p></p><p><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-XSJx5CiBVDE/YALDWt2ujmI/AAAAAAAAQww/fCFpppMXcOkn77tSRoGlsaXtUYXNYzG-ACLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/BBEEFB9E-4EAE-4C2C-BCC3-891922721C78.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1888" data-original-width="2048" height="369" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-XSJx5CiBVDE/YALDWt2ujmI/AAAAAAAAQww/fCFpppMXcOkn77tSRoGlsaXtUYXNYzG-ACLcBGAsYHQ/w400-h369/BBEEFB9E-4EAE-4C2C-BCC3-891922721C78.jpeg" width="400" /></a></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>Bobby Lahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10370328648446816338noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21900103.post-47399798994012649392021-01-15T22:12:00.010+11:002021-01-16T05:39:13.597+11:00My Career As A Knitwear Designer (ha ha ha)!<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Sf8VloXyj3c/YAF_Re_IBfI/AAAAAAAAQwc/9YM6-kKTW04iZmbgu1fIZayoFXXVG3omwCLcBGAsYHQ/s613/4DC7005B-17BF-475E-9262-5BD3E41D39A3.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="613" data-original-width="377" height="200" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Sf8VloXyj3c/YAF_Re_IBfI/AAAAAAAAQwc/9YM6-kKTW04iZmbgu1fIZayoFXXVG3omwCLcBGAsYHQ/w123-h200/4DC7005B-17BF-475E-9262-5BD3E41D39A3.jpeg" width="123" /></a></div><br />I’ve decided to make more knitting designs. Work is quiet, which allows me time to map things out and think things through and calculate. So I’ve made a cardigan design and graded it into 16 sizes, from really little little to fairly big big. <p></p><p>I started with a kiddies version, quite successfully too I thought, (it’s cute and I’m happy about it), then set about to do the young adult size. Yay isolation!</p><p>This one has slightly different background colours. I did the body, bottom up to the underarms and just for a break, decided to make a hat. Again I’ve varied the colours and the patterning to showcase other possibilities (and not be bored myself). But, I ran out of the main colour. It’s from Shetland and I’m in Australia so whilst I was ordering I thought I may as well choose the colours for my bigger cardigan. Which I did. </p><p>As it turns out, Scotland has a temporary ban on international postage, so while that’s happening I went back and started the sleeves to finish the other. </p><p>I cast on and worked the cuff, then got into the fair isle band motifs before realizing I’d left out the first band. So I pulled it back to the rib and started it properly. I got back as far as I’d gone before, some 10 cm of pattern past a deep rib but it looked too baggy. Not what I want. Unpicked it. </p><p>Going back to my original charts I fussed over all of the adult sized sleeves... which is really, really arduous because the program I then use is sooo slow on my stupid, stupid laptop and it kills me. It took ages to generate my new improved sleeve. An evening. </p><p>Cast on again. </p><p>I like to cast on with 3mm needles then drop back to 2.5 mm for the ribbing but I forgot so pulled it out. Next day... Cast on properly with 3mm but (grrr) forgot (grrrrr) to (grrrrrrr) change down...</p><p>SO I started again. Inner calm, inner calm... 62 stitches. Yes. Managed a neat, well practiced cast on with 3mm followed by a beautifully tidy (deep) cuff in 2.5mm’s. Beautiful. The size looked right for a 6. Great. Sleeves don’t take long, I’ll be done soon.</p><p>I want you to know that all of this happens between many other tasks, train trips and work and family and perusing my emails. It’s a few of days of disjointedness. I thought, right, I’d Better Just Make Sure and pulled out the pattern to be 100% and hey! The pattern said (mother-flippin’) (stop swearing) seventy (mother-flippin’) two!!!! Not. 62.</p><p>Shoving down a rising beserk, I ripped back my little neat cuff. Again. For the 5th or 4th or 10th time! Unravelled it yet again...</p><p>I pulled out the original graph. The very original paper calculations, not the stupid, arduously made print out with my fair isle plonked in. And yes, guess what? 62 was in fact CORRECT! Time to tear up the wrong print outs, with vigor.</p><p>You’ll be proud of me because I didn’t swear (out loud) and I didn’t cry (on the inside). I either overcame my feelings of rage and disappointment and boredom, or suppressed them deeply and just got up, packed a bag for the train trip in the morning and went to bed.</p><p>Before I did go to bed I thought I’d get out a fresh ball of wool for the cuffs, since I’d worn the other ragged and it might be better to bury it deep inside the fair isle. So I grabbed another and saw that I was going to run out before I finished the cardigan and needed to order another couple. But Scotland... mail...</p><p>Never mind... suck it up (you stupid, stupid idiot)...</p><p>This morning I had a nice walk before I caught the train to the city. I listened to a great podcast about early female pilots in Australia, whilst walking through the pretty bush. Lovely! On the train I set up a show I’m watching on my propped iPad, cast on 62 stitches neatly with 3mm needles then dug in my bag to change to 2.5’s and guess what? I’d left them at home.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>Bobby Lahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10370328648446816338noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21900103.post-91860285066315844392021-01-11T17:01:00.007+11:002021-02-15T13:30:29.746+11:00Two Would Have Done It But Bad Luck, I Made Three<p>These are very handy. One bowl for the bundle of colours (fair isle cardigan with 9 ish colours) and another for what I’m using, sitting on my lap or table. Stack them together out of the way later. </p><p>I’ve taken to making new boxes and bowl as holiday projects, ignoring my huge list of things I have started, want to do and plan and just cutting loose. Ignoring the fact that I have more boxes than hankies. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-HfrCGQy60jc/X_vlvTtQnFI/AAAAAAAAQvM/7cpW03KhdlUabiFvCn8x3jVGb1iOtA1bwCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/46045EFC-DE05-4247-8271-F69A849AC2C8.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1959" data-original-width="2048" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-HfrCGQy60jc/X_vlvTtQnFI/AAAAAAAAQvM/7cpW03KhdlUabiFvCn8x3jVGb1iOtA1bwCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/46045EFC-DE05-4247-8271-F69A849AC2C8.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-j4mdAitGZSU/X_vlv6r-1yI/AAAAAAAAQvQ/es_0R4U_1isvUyH3KgYNcQOlMnUFzo_FwCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/75EC906D-A5B8-43B8-9296-C457F8C74342.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1957" data-original-width="2048" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-j4mdAitGZSU/X_vlv6r-1yI/AAAAAAAAQvQ/es_0R4U_1isvUyH3KgYNcQOlMnUFzo_FwCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/75EC906D-A5B8-43B8-9296-C457F8C74342.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-gZ8CrbVaMXg/X_vlxGAfNeI/AAAAAAAAQvU/MG5KXJqSVLIuzwwrLOyaw3r3IvmmrLkyACLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/B23E743D-F648-484D-BB2E-CCB8D040B2A6.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1985" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-gZ8CrbVaMXg/X_vlxGAfNeI/AAAAAAAAQvU/MG5KXJqSVLIuzwwrLOyaw3r3IvmmrLkyACLcBGAsYHQ/s320/B23E743D-F648-484D-BB2E-CCB8D040B2A6.jpeg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-VXriWvgEf54/X_vml7jFGyI/AAAAAAAAQvo/C7ztblYhfXIE5zLiX_oc7V-qSjrqhbcNgCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/B89D042A-1DCB-4B1E-8502-150EBF6D5C33.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1665" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-VXriWvgEf54/X_vml7jFGyI/AAAAAAAAQvo/C7ztblYhfXIE5zLiX_oc7V-qSjrqhbcNgCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/B89D042A-1DCB-4B1E-8502-150EBF6D5C33.jpeg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Follow labels below to tutorials, materials lists and patterns.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Or go <a href="https://robynefmelia.blogspot.com/2010/01/box-tutorial-sort-of-thing.html">HERE.</a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div>Bobby Lahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10370328648446816338noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21900103.post-20251288827764899952021-01-10T19:26:00.007+11:002021-01-10T20:50:34.974+11:00Berlin Wool Work Picture For The Shed Wall<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-wgx5bhUB9b8/X_q1MNRaXTI/AAAAAAAAQuo/VMFeYW97j8cNMbZLzVMq1knc8Y-axg9ewCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/EACA05B8-688D-49C5-9FCA-4018C34CD238.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1688" data-original-width="2048" height="330" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-wgx5bhUB9b8/X_q1MNRaXTI/AAAAAAAAQuo/VMFeYW97j8cNMbZLzVMq1knc8Y-axg9ewCLcBGAsYHQ/w400-h330/EACA05B8-688D-49C5-9FCA-4018C34CD238.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div>I so love the Victorian Berlin wool work patterns. This picture was printed out (A3) then glued onto heavy cardboard, which is a bit of a pain to crochet but it’s also not a big job. I forgot to photograph the back but will after it’s stretched and the lace has dried.<p></p><p>My crochet is awfully ad hoc and obviously uneven, but I’m happy. I’m using up my perle and crochet thread stash. </p><p>The picture is for the Bus Stop shed up in the garden. Or the kitchen, not sure.</p><p>What I want to do is paint a wash of dilute pva glue over the lace to completely stiffen it... but am not sure how to do it without glueing down the backing. Maybe cling wrap? Maybe that will pull off easily?</p><p>Or, I could lace it to four sticks, crossed at the corners. Hmmm... I could lace it to put the glue on... right...</p><p>Follow the labels below for tutorials, patterns and materials to make crocheted card (boxes) etc. if you want to. </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>Bobby Lahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10370328648446816338noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21900103.post-28322500823715682722021-01-06T21:04:00.001+11:002021-01-06T21:04:13.630+11:00Thinking Of The Diorama <p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-bswfuNbQ66U/X_WJ4LR-7wI/AAAAAAAAQuY/-_Eo67ihAHIINtGV64IPvcKGhc5BSXN_gCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/7606CC4A-885B-4D1E-8C84-6BEE290682C4.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="400" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-bswfuNbQ66U/X_WJ4LR-7wI/AAAAAAAAQuY/-_Eo67ihAHIINtGV64IPvcKGhc5BSXN_gCLcBGAsYHQ/w300-h400/7606CC4A-885B-4D1E-8C84-6BEE290682C4.jpeg" width="300" /></a></div><br /> I bought these gorgeous vintage millinery flowers from <a href="https://luccello.com.au/">L’ucello</a> in Melbourne’s Nicholas Building (Level 2). Thanks Leah and Michael for my gift voucher. I may have over spent. By a lot. But it’s the risk you take when you go in there with a plan (or without).<p></p>Bobby Lahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10370328648446816338noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21900103.post-17980836866896641672021-01-01T12:36:00.005+11:002021-01-01T12:36:30.749+11:00Just Did It.<p> Following on from the last post...</p><p><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-5g4P87kE7Y0/X-56l1ZLxeI/AAAAAAAAQtc/4Hwozx945QwWsnPjm_brxd7lUOwN6FE8gCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/B99A0B98-235A-425F-A532-12665DFFBF9F.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2043" data-original-width="2048" height="399" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-5g4P87kE7Y0/X-56l1ZLxeI/AAAAAAAAQtc/4Hwozx945QwWsnPjm_brxd7lUOwN6FE8gCLcBGAsYHQ/w400-h399/B99A0B98-235A-425F-A532-12665DFFBF9F.jpeg" width="400" /></a></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-cTNIPZARy5M/X-569f_GygI/AAAAAAAAQtw/qsi2phVz1VkoAMuUreZY6Kr-9U-ZBbhFwCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/FA14A3D0-F75C-4851-87F3-AA29F69CCA2A.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1857" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-cTNIPZARy5M/X-569f_GygI/AAAAAAAAQtw/qsi2phVz1VkoAMuUreZY6Kr-9U-ZBbhFwCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/FA14A3D0-F75C-4851-87F3-AA29F69CCA2A.jpeg" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-FN6XwWsiomw/X-5608FzTRI/AAAAAAAAQto/bx2MBrhbOFcJK4-F7OKmxB9KnsfprZv_ACLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/CB57E58B-2574-498C-9E88-D900354F589B.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1916" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-FN6XwWsiomw/X-5608FzTRI/AAAAAAAAQto/bx2MBrhbOFcJK4-F7OKmxB9KnsfprZv_ACLcBGAsYHQ/s320/CB57E58B-2574-498C-9E88-D900354F589B.jpeg" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-BEgGP_PlM-o/X-56v73c2jI/AAAAAAAAQtg/PxSTPh13e0Mgw8NSzNPRHw5PKDF5J174QCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/BDFFE01F-8B83-4C8A-BF51-B1853D38472B.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1752" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-BEgGP_PlM-o/X-56v73c2jI/AAAAAAAAQtg/PxSTPh13e0Mgw8NSzNPRHw5PKDF5J174QCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/BDFFE01F-8B83-4C8A-BF51-B1853D38472B.jpeg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">It’s quite a good size, maybe could be a little lower? I might cut a nest of them to fit inside each other. They’re good have on your lap with the knitting. Better than a bag like when you go somewhere.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Once again, follow the label Crochet or Tutorial to find patterns, instructions and other ideas for your crocheted card experience.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><p></p>Bobby Lahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10370328648446816338noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21900103.post-25157298194861050792020-12-31T17:57:00.007+11:002021-01-11T18:53:42.696+11:00Relaxing Indulgence Crafts. My New Knitting Bowl.<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ir-yvhb0uXw/X_wBshXsPaI/AAAAAAAAQv0/y4Z8VYXhPjIjBmtBx0fnTo-9NMfTqXy0QCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/7C72D6F2-ACFC-4E45-9650-41AC0D0C47E8.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1957" data-original-width="2048" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ir-yvhb0uXw/X_wBshXsPaI/AAAAAAAAQv0/y4Z8VYXhPjIjBmtBx0fnTo-9NMfTqXy0QCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/7C72D6F2-ACFC-4E45-9650-41AC0D0C47E8.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-UI3M_5kRNJQ/X_wBs948kBI/AAAAAAAAQv4/fxDeWAjGq3o8uQUhciV-EF9WzZ5QXSGEgCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/9599EBD9-4B97-4E51-871C-CB09377D547B.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1652" data-original-width="2048" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-UI3M_5kRNJQ/X_wBs948kBI/AAAAAAAAQv4/fxDeWAjGq3o8uQUhciV-EF9WzZ5QXSGEgCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/9599EBD9-4B97-4E51-871C-CB09377D547B.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-NWOFhxyLsi4/X-2GCORF3dI/AAAAAAAAQtE/K7doi4ZqigUs2DoDMxicYBf1Ue2P3NZrwCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/0C9AE0C3-8BCC-4ABB-99D7-7D3A8517343E.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1878" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-NWOFhxyLsi4/X-2GCORF3dI/AAAAAAAAQtE/K7doi4ZqigUs2DoDMxicYBf1Ue2P3NZrwCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/0C9AE0C3-8BCC-4ABB-99D7-7D3A8517343E.jpeg" /></a></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-YBTM2FGkNQI/X-14V0SrWbI/AAAAAAAAQsk/s6IxJLABjT4OaD4BQtZXKn3ggxRYR_hjQCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/1104EE3D-0569-4612-8D36-E6CD8A28AE5C.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-YBTM2FGkNQI/X-14V0SrWbI/AAAAAAAAQsk/s6IxJLABjT4OaD4BQtZXKn3ggxRYR_hjQCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/1104EE3D-0569-4612-8D36-E6CD8A28AE5C.jpeg" /></a></div><div><br /></div>I found a book of fancy repro etchings, for $6 or something (ages ago) just for this sort of purpose. But you can use anything... photos, book covers, musical scores, art books, kids drawings...<div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-GzOjLI8_DOM/X-14WMqJACI/AAAAAAAAQso/7kbC0nBmfGUCJMcE7LAExwjM_GJ_mFXdACLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/D32537B8-75B8-41C5-B841-9A4DE095F356.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-GzOjLI8_DOM/X-14WMqJACI/AAAAAAAAQso/7kbC0nBmfGUCJMcE7LAExwjM_GJ_mFXdACLcBGAsYHQ/s320/D32537B8-75B8-41C5-B841-9A4DE095F356.jpeg" /></a><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-FF6gtX2Vrug/X-17628qlwI/AAAAAAAAQs4/ONdgKxl0eZE0gDg55shhY9J3Qga_ydcZACLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/Yarn%2BBowl392.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1400" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-FF6gtX2Vrug/X-17628qlwI/AAAAAAAAQs4/ONdgKxl0eZE0gDg55shhY9J3Qga_ydcZACLcBGAsYHQ/s320/Yarn%2BBowl392.jpg" /></a></div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">This set of yarn bowls is different than <a href="http://robynefmelia.blogspot.com/search/label/Crochet">the last one I made</a>, or the last couple. No lid for starters. The lid is annoying on the last one. I never ever use it as intended (for yarn to come through). Ever.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">For a tutorial to make these in any shape or form, go <a href="http://robynefmelia.blogspot.com/2010/01/box-tutorial-sort-of-thing.html">HERE</a> and for lots of other crocheted card thingy's I have made and drawn patterns for, go <a href="http://robynefmelia.blogspot.com/search/label/Crochet">HERE</a>.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">If you print out the diagram at A4 it should be right. I don't think a bit different will matter much. Then, slice 3-4mm off the sides and lower edge of the side and off each side of the hexagon. This makes the medium sized bowl. Repeat for the smaller one. I decided the big bowl’s sides we’re quite high so took 10mm off the rim for the medium and a further 4-5mm for the smaller.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Go to the next link for more pictures of the three sizes in a subsequent post:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://robynefmelia.blogspot.com/2021/01/two-would-have-done-it-but-bad-luck-i.html">http://robynefmelia.blogspot.com/2021/01/two-would-have-done-it-but-bad-luck-i.html</a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-kYpwegxCfxI/X-2GVSnl-HI/AAAAAAAAQtM/2mrn77T6qGAiRhQXFyKaTCTsyAFZKtwcgCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/D59CF3FB-673D-4893-AD83-6D683576C713.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="2048" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-kYpwegxCfxI/X-2GVSnl-HI/AAAAAAAAQtM/2mrn77T6qGAiRhQXFyKaTCTsyAFZKtwcgCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/D59CF3FB-673D-4893-AD83-6D683576C713.jpeg" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;"> </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;"><br /></span></div><p></p></div>Bobby Lahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10370328648446816338noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21900103.post-28211696089538026672020-12-30T09:17:00.002+11:002020-12-30T09:17:52.018+11:00Lavender Harvest<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-TPDds4MFmso/X-uq8nCggCI/AAAAAAAAQrg/MJemNnDT1csCqj0uNdia_QSoaRTgl9_0QCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/18D394E9-A98A-4DF1-A010-3551DAB6D9C9.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1668" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-TPDds4MFmso/X-uq8nCggCI/AAAAAAAAQrg/MJemNnDT1csCqj0uNdia_QSoaRTgl9_0QCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/18D394E9-A98A-4DF1-A010-3551DAB6D9C9.jpeg" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-mhbx-yioUe0/X-uq8M81UAI/AAAAAAAAQrY/l3IXQWnT_okUtAEVXGSc8Z4wPiM4OL8kACLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/49E93C8B-D68B-4640-B91A-AF29FD87DAEF.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1358" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-mhbx-yioUe0/X-uq8M81UAI/AAAAAAAAQrY/l3IXQWnT_okUtAEVXGSc8Z4wPiM4OL8kACLcBGAsYHQ/s320/49E93C8B-D68B-4640-B91A-AF29FD87DAEF.jpeg" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-F9TM5H5mjms/X-uq-MjfK5I/AAAAAAAAQrk/fkE-5UhljIEG_CUO0nHN-rsdFA3FTVfFwCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/91A3ECE7-F04A-47AC-9653-36698B21C033.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1530" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-F9TM5H5mjms/X-uq-MjfK5I/AAAAAAAAQrk/fkE-5UhljIEG_CUO0nHN-rsdFA3FTVfFwCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/91A3ECE7-F04A-47AC-9653-36698B21C033.jpeg" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-XtdZT3lsu5I/X-uq8UyvabI/AAAAAAAAQrc/URVoImQMSDcjdJVnXcqH0SwQa277oNEfACLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/08783E62-30A5-4355-B644-6E2D15B69BBA.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1671" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-XtdZT3lsu5I/X-uq8UyvabI/AAAAAAAAQrc/URVoImQMSDcjdJVnXcqH0SwQa277oNEfACLcBGAsYHQ/s320/08783E62-30A5-4355-B644-6E2D15B69BBA.jpeg" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/--0BEcTyc5AU/X-uq_Z71NNI/AAAAAAAAQro/BQhz8i6U79Q_dNlcZoJCp8_0WEjnERv1wCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/983375D3-FFCC-4821-8DC6-E7D9A103BD7A.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/--0BEcTyc5AU/X-uq_Z71NNI/AAAAAAAAQro/BQhz8i6U79Q_dNlcZoJCp8_0WEjnERv1wCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/983375D3-FFCC-4821-8DC6-E7D9A103BD7A.jpeg" /></a></div><br /> <p></p>Bobby Lahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10370328648446816338noreply@blogger.com0