On August 11th, 2012, YARNMANIA…
…gets me every time I find myself sucked in by the orbit of a yarn store these days – which I had previously lived my life impervious to,…
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On August 8th, 2012, A BERKELEY EDIBLE SCHOOLYARD TOUR…
…with Alice Waters this afternoon (wearing the crazy 10 foot long triangular multi-indigo-blue linens and cottons shawl/scarf I had just knit and presented to her at lunch –…
On August 7th, 2012, KNITTED NECK RAINBOW…
…is what I am tentatively calling this latest (pretty gay) knitted creation that seemed to emerge out of my busy needles without much planning – which started with…
On July 27th, 2012, BASKETS, BASKETS, BASKETS…
…are suddenly on my mind – perhaps inspired by the 95 year old Abruzzian basket-maker we met as part of Domestic Integrities research in Italy – and seeming…
On July 23rd, 2012, KNITTING UP A BLUE STORM…
…is one reason I have been slow to post things here as they happen, having been taken over by knitting-mania which started with learning how to spin wool…
On July 16th, 2012, PAPEL PICADO…
…’strings of paper flags with kaleidoscope cut-outs used as festive decorations throughout Mexico…traced back to the Aztecs’ hand made by Taller Arte Papel Oaxaca with local stalks of flax was…
On July 3rd, 2012, A WICKER BASKET WEAVER…
…named Fernando Marcantonio, aged 95, residing in a remote small Abruzzian village learned how to make baskets from his father and grandfather when he was young – something that they did…
On June 24th, 2012, FLYING AND RE-KNITTING…
…kept me busy for most of the night and morning making my way from Mildred’s Lane in rural Pennsylvania to Vienna, via a ride from friends to Penn…
On June 12th, 2012, LEARNING HOW TO KNIT IN LONDON…
…at long last – having grown up surrounded by that familiar activity with knitting aunts and grandmother, a knitting mom who knit us sweaters and afghans, and a…
On April 26th, 2012, PRINCETON STUDENT COLONY CROCHETING…
…is the activity for the day, as we fled the spring rain and cold and leaky drafty dome of the Colony compound to gather in the nearby anonymous…
On January 31st, 2012, BRAIDED BLUE RUG ON THE FLOOR IN THE DOME…
…and finally where it should be, after hours and hours and weeks and weeks of dyeing, cutting, braiding, and sewing every shred of unused blue (or willing to…
On January 11th, 2012, BRAIDED RUG PROGRESS…
…my new obsession which is keeping me busy most evenings – is still small after all of these hours of busy hands, much much much slower than what…
On January 4th, 2012, SHREDDING OLD BLUE CLOTHES…
…today and getting ready to embark on a new craft adventure that I think is going to lead my work in new directions and change my life.
On December 27th, 2012, AN ARRANGEMENT OF CRYSTALS…
…at my uncle’s admirably and intricately decorated house, is a hypnotic diversion from our lunch here this afternoon.
On October 26th, 2011, BREUER AND POTTERY AT SAINT JOHN’S…
…today started with a visit to the studio of Richard Bresnahan, where we drank delicious green tea out of his earthy sumptuous cups and teapot (similar to the…
On December 13th, 2010, POTATO STAMPS…
…is what I’m making today!
October 27th, PAPER MACHE BALLOON MASKS…
…are being made for the kids, and some of the adults, at the Academy tonight.