cloud seen from my back deck approx. 10 a.m.
The cloud looked very threatening but it just rolled by and here it is noontime and there have been more dark clouds and also blue sky – no rain yet.
Immersed In Memories
I have a huge ongoing project to digitize all my photographs. The photographs have been extracted from albums and a preliminary sorting by topic has been completed by Susan (my daughter-in-law). There are 20 white boxes. Scanning has been started – this morning I finished one box, mostly Miller family photos going back to my childhood and beyond, e.g. a baby photo of my father dating from his 1st birthday July 16, 1892.
Joseph B Miller, age 1, July 16, 1892
Results from my current knitting project – hats in shades of brown
Me modeling the latest hatThree Examples of Excellent Narrative Pattern Writing June 30, 2018
I love the reductionist-style knitting patterns from Continental Europe. Drawing from the Norwegian knitting patterns of my youth and the reductionist-style German knitting patterns, I created my Neo-Norsk pattern construction method. (See my blog posts The Reductionist Pattern, A Very Reductionist Pattern, Deconstructing the Very Reductionist Pattern, and The Neo-Norsk Pattern Construction Method.) But many (many) knitters are more comfortable with the narrative form. Well-written narrative-style pattern also takes skill; just because one is able to write in English doesn’t mean s/he can write a good pattern.
Following up on my dissection last week of Bay Bay Poncho, this post compares the commonalities of three patterns written in narrative format by skilled knitwear designers – ones who also write excellent pattern instructions: Linda Marveng (Norway), Wei Siew Leong of Kiwiyarns (New Zealand), and Kate Davies of Kate Davies Designs (Scotland).
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Back To Knitting June 28, 2018
a sampling of the ceramic masks hanging on my backyard fence. The masks are made by a local potter named Faye. I’m attempting to transfer the Voodoo Mask idea into knitting. And I’m working with shades of brown.
A War Book But Not…… June 25, 2018
1944 Diary is set in the Dutch city of Delft during the 2nd World War. But the War is very much in the shadows. just a backdrop. It is more about the author’s struggles and doubts about his ability to be a writer, his inclination to be a doctor, and the conflicts of his feelings for his wife and child and his mistress. The author, Hans Keilson, is a German of Jewish faith. He is in hiding in Delft. Not to spoil the ending, he survived the war and lived to age 101, a significant writer, poet, doctor, and psychoanalyst – he died in 2011.
Katerina watching closelyA Cat Doing What A Cat Does June 21, 2018
Sad demise – I’ve buried the bird and feel awful. I’m glad Katerina doesn’t catch birds very often. I buried a field mouse yesterday – I felt badly about that also – but not quite so bad.
Does the cat’s recent behavior have anything to do with the Solstice? I wonder.
Genealogy Has Me In A Spin June 20, 2018
I’ve went away for a week and now it has taken a week to get caught up to where I was before I went away. I have been particularly slow in figuring out what I was doing in my genealogy research. In fact in an unexpected lightening bulb moment last night I suddenly remembered that I was slowly and methodically adding to my annotated list of my ancestors who emigrated from the British Isles to North America. And the core document for that exercise is a blog entry originally compiled in July 2016.
To add to my confusion I bought a new laptop and am having trouble getting set up. That old eircom email address is snarling things up. Anything eircom is no longer validd or operational.
stretching out in the early morning sun
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