A journal of art, gardening, orchids, knitting and there may be dragons.
so long, Orenji, and thanks for all the fish
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With apologies to Douglas Adams, the last title in the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy came to mind when we found Orenji floating in the pond. I imagine poor bereft Moby swimming around alone looking for his companion.
Actually, Moby seems quite okay, though every time he makes a circuit of the pond I can't help but anthropomorphize his feelings (too many readings of Charlotte's Web as a child). Do fish have thoughts?
Coincidentally, the day he found Orenji deceased, Wayne went to our local Wild Birds Unlimited store to pick up bird seed. Amy said they needed to thin out the goldfish in the store pond. They are really pretty goldfish with really long fins and tails. She said to come and take some of them for our pond. I don't think Moby minds the goldfish, but I wonder what they think of this white whale.
I made a little slide show of our pond which started out on a small patch of the back yard where the grass would not grow. We're thinking about a bigger one soon. If Moby keeps growing, we'll need one.
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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