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I've been catching up on reading some of my favorite knitting blogs. Anne Hanson's KnitSpot post featured photographs taken from a moving vehicle while on a trip through New York. I thought about my other favorite knitting blogs and realize that all of them feature photography, not just pictures of knitting, but really good photographs by people who also knit.
Anne's post made me think about how I also carry my camera everywhere. Shooting pictures from a moving vehicle is quite a bit easier with the automatic digital cameras available today. I don't recommend taking pictures while behind the wheel, with the car in gear and traveling down the interstate at 75 mph, but I admit to doing it. The following were taken while driving home from south Tampa to north Tampa on a stormy summer afternoon. They were taken with a Panasonic Lumix DMC-TZ3. Click on any of the pictures to go to my Picasa web album and see them larger.
I took these pictures while a passenger when Wayne and I drove to Fort Pierce early one morning. We were on Hwy 60, I think, somewhere near Yeehaw Junction.
The following were taken in 2006 during a trip to visit David in Las Vegas. We drove up to the mountains and spotted wild horses. One of the foals had a perfect heart marking on his side.
Living in Florida for the last 30 years has made me miss mountains. I couldn't get enough of them while in Nevada. These were taken with a Pentax Optio 50.
Somehow, the landscape looks even more beautiful in black and white. This reminds me of a shot from an old Western movie before that awful colorization.
It took me more time to make the written charted pattern for this bookmark than it did to knit it! I'm still learning how to use Apple's Pages. Just click on the link above for the pattern. It's free to anyone who's interested. I'm still pretty bad at making tassels. I think I may invest in one of those little tassel making tools that they sell at Joann's. I found the lace pattern for this in Barbara G. Walker's Charted Knitting Designs: a third treasury of knitting patterns . Here's the finished bookmark: From knitting From knitting Enjoy! This pretty little orchid opened this morning. With all the rain we've had, two of the three buds dropped, but at least I have one flower. This is Pot. Burana Beauty. From orchids
I'll have to knit one of these to keep for myself one day. I'm giving them all away. Here's a new lace bookmark design. I call it (actually, Wayne thought of the title) "Leaf me alone, I'm reading". We stopped by Fiber Art, Inc . last Saturday and I bought 3 more balls of Mini Mochi in different colorways. I've got enough now to knit 30 or so more bookmarks. The pattern for "Leaf me alone" is here . I'm accumulating quite an assortment of bookmarks of all kinds. The Ephemera Society of America posts an article on the history of bookmarks . Yet another collection. Add it to the dragons (I will post about them, eventually), orchids, skulls...can't leave out the knitting yarn, needles, and patterns (those seem to multiply like breeding rabbits!). I have bookmarks in two books I'm reading now: Aimee Bender's The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake , and The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year Volume Four . Ephem
I finally got down to typing up the chart I made for the new bookmark. It has three lace flowers surrounded by eyelets around the edges. The fun bead I picked for the tassel echoes the flower shape of the lace. I found out that the Windows version of CET Knitting Symbols font works almost perfectly with Apple's Pages. Almost. I just could not get any of the alt-codes to work, so had to improvise a "t" for the more commonly used knitting symbol for a twisted stitch. You can find the finished charted pattern here . I love the part where I get out the pencil and graph paper and draw the design. From knitting The finished bookmark looks great with this color-way of Mini Mochi yarn. Blocking: From knitting Finished: From knitting Fueled by homemade turkey pot pie, I was able to get through the frustration of (still) learning Apple's Pages version of working with tables as opposed to Word. The pot pie is to die for. I'll share my recipe next blog.
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