A couple of days ago I think I finished this sweater –
I say “I think” because I’m not at all sure it fits. The sleeves are awfully tight, and the sleeve caps are very lumpy. I’m somewhat tempted to redo the sleeves, but only somewhat — because as you can see, they were plenty of [...]
It can be kind of quiet at my mom’s house. I had brought a knitting project for the airplane and a long circular needle and the Fiber Trends “Magic Loop” booklet, intending to start socks. On Tuesday (Monday being Veteran’s Day) Arlene and I went out to Florence’s Attic, a LYS out in Chubbuck (that’s [...]
A week ago I brought in the Sunday paper (this was in Pocatello), looked at the front page, and said, “That’s my mom!”
She had told us that someone had interviewed her for the newspaper, so I shouldn’t have been surprised. The piece on the front page, was just a pointer to a big article [...]
Yesterday (Nov 19)’s Boston Globe had a full page ad with a graphic of a wishbone and a star, and the following text:
Let’s redefine Christmas.
By putting more Thanksgiving in it.
No sooner does Thanksgiving end, than the loathsome shopping season begins – a month-long compulsion to buy something, anything, for everyone. We’re pressed. We’re stressed. And [...]
Ha, that should confuse search engines when people are searching for trading cards with pictures of baseball players.
OK, so here are scans of a couple of postcards I’ve sent out recently. Firstly, this is one of four cards I stamped on cardboard cut from beer six-packs. Contrary to the impression the first recipients seemed to [...]
My mom said, “Have you ever read Stickeen? It’s a really short book, it’ll only take you an hour, here.”
Where has this book been all my life? How come I had never heard of it before? Is it too controversial because of saying that dogs are people too? It’s on the web at that link. [...]
We got up early, by which I mean at a time that would only be oversleeping by a single hour on a work day, this morning. We wanted to get to Bridgton at 10 for a guided walk in the area that Loon Echo Land Trust is hoping to turn into Pondicherry Park. We did [...]
I think I’ve talked before about indexing stamps. The batch I did last night was so big I couldn’t resist taking a picture. It was only seven designs, but they’re big sellers, so I did quantity 25 of a couple of them
Here’s the setup. I use a soy oil-based printer’s ink, something like Hi-Tech Tack [...]
OK, so here’s the pumpkin I carved on Monday night, lit up, in action on Halloween:
Here it is, next to the magazine cover I modeled it on. It’s the hair line that makes the cover picture recognizable. The lack of it is a big part of why the pumpkin isn’t.
Last year we tried printing two T-shirts by the dye discharge method. The idea is to print with bleach so as to remove the color from the fabric where you print. Rather than using liquid bleach, which is stronger and harder to control than you really want, we print using Soft Scrub liquid cleanser instead [...]
