J is excited to help me make his map of the world ghan from Vogue Knitting, Fall 2002. He has selected the colors for each country and colored his map to match the yarns I have purchased for our creation. With Plymouth Encore knitting worsted and size nines, I have gotten as far as the orange trim and blue ocean. In all honesty, I had to frog down to the first four rows of blue after discovering that I had incorrectly done the color pattern. I added two blue at each end of that section rather than the requisite one at each end. Since this would be problematic with a ghan that is knitted in panels. Taking a deep breath, I yanked it all out and have not yet restored it to the point in the picture. Woe is me! I first saw the pattern at http://freefriends.org/~mare/may17.html . This is an exciting project! I plan to frame J's colored map to go with the ghan.
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A Place in the World
A Thousand Days in Venice by Marlena de Blasi started ho-hum. I wasn't even certain I'd finish it--a memoir, romantic, lush with food and Damask and descriptions of Italy--chiefly the lagoons and waterways of Venice. Everything has a golden hue--even the man with one sharp front tooth! This writer paints with words in recounting meeting and marrying a Venetian man, giving up everything and moving to Venice. She, a renowned chef and writer from St. Louis, MO, USA, traveling to far-off Venice to marry a banker seemed preposterous to everyone who knew her. How wonderful it would be to travel beginning in St. Louis and visiting all of the places in her book!! A slow, extended tour to see the richness, the beauty that she describes--to delight in the succulent foods and wines she tastes!
"A thousand days. A minute. A flash. Just like life I think."
--a luscious book to savor--I hesitate to begin another and diminish the "taste" of this one~
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You will keep in perfect peace all who trust in you, whose thoughts are fixed on you!
Isaiah 26:3, NLT
4 comments:
What a great start to your blog. I'm impressed with the blog buttons- you sure have caught on fast.
K
Hey - nice blog. You might be interested in "Knit the Classics" - a fun group that I just joined! :O)
Ksenia,
Your supportive words are a real boost! Thank you for taking time to comment in such a positive way.
:)
Hi Whit,
Thanks for your compliment. I'll check into "Knit the Classics".
Happy Thanksgiving!
:)
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