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It was about five years ago when my friend, Carl, offered me two grape vines he'd removed from his yard. One of the vines is a Florida hybrid developed at USF which has a metal tag "FL primo bunch 'pink'". The second vine had no identification, so I'm not sure of the variety. Wayne built a simple arbor using pressure treated 4 x 4's and trellis panels to make a home for the grapes.
This year may prove to be our best harvest, yet. The primo pink has lots of almost mature grapes. The no-name vine is completely covered with tiny clusters. We've tried eating the primos in past years. They're a bit tart. We've never had mature grapes from the no-name vine. This year we may have enough of both to make wine. That has me thinking ahead to designing a label (Dragon's blood, anyone?). Before that happens, I need to learn how to make wine. It seems to involve bare feet and a large vat.
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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