Margaret Rose Stringer's Blog, page 22
May 10, 2020
Even here ..!
Oz is as bad as the US when it comes to morons who choose to believe conspiracy theories and who claim that Covid-19 is some kind of Trump-type hoax. Look at them, the mindless cretins ! determined to increase the spread as much as they can. To call them anti-lockdown protestors is an Continue reading Even here ..!
May 9, 2020
The crochet tournament
So, I have no idea whether or not coordinator Lynda has allowed my second go at the first round, because I have no access to Instagram of Facebook (I am, normally, happy to say). She hasnt acknowledged my sending her the completed Heat 1, Stage 1 re-do; so Im completely in the dark as to
May 5, 2020
The LAST new recipe
Its all got a bit beyond me, this constant experimenting with new vegetarian recipes. My problem is simple and probably incomprehensible to most cooks: I get stressed by the various timings. Lets say a recipe instructs me to cover and allow to simmer actively for 8-10 minutes, and meanwhile prepare the tomato sauce. What almost Continue reading The LAST new recipe
May 4, 2020
Hands up those who wish they’d entered a crochet tournament ..
Such fun ! Crochet Australia came up with this great idea a few weeks ago or longer, I dunno and it grew and grew. Became an Eventbrite affair, even ! There are only 261 of us entered, but thats a number quite big enough for Crochet Australia to manage, Im sure. CA chose
May 3, 2020
Taking unnecessary travel a bit far
I am a bus traveller. I have no car, and am not on a train-line; so its buses for me. (When, that is, times are normal.) My bus pass is a Myki, for which Ive set an online top-up control and thus is my life rendered painless. In my Inbox this-morning I found this: and Continue reading Taking unnecessary travel a bit far
No, I haven’t !
I have NOT put a blue rinse through my hair. My new gravatar looks very much like a grumpy old broad who has dipped her head in a basin of grumpy-old-lady blue dye. Bugger ! It is merely grey, folks. There is still some dark stuff around the back; but basically Im just grey. Continue reading No, I havent !
April 29, 2020
So you want to set up a YouTube crochet channel ..
Not I ! and I doubt Ive ever responded negatively to such a thought as vigorously as I did when coming across this pattern: It is a glorious thing indeed ! It is called Spring Fling Garden Blanket or Throw, and was created and made by a young Canadian woman living in London whose Continue reading So you want to set up a YouTube crochet channel ..
April 28, 2020
Me not being a quitter (for once)
I thought a fair bit about my dissatisfaction with the knitted entrelac .. Not happy, Jan !* I told myself. So, using a new ball so as to prove that any images were not merely continuations of the now frogged
April 25, 2020
Well, it was new to me
Here are my fairly pathetic attempts at following PDX Knitteratis Minerva scarf KAL. Michele told me I could easily learn to knit entrelac using only one ball of wool at a time, and I believed her. Just as well: she
April 21, 2020
Heavens ! – another FO !
Who knew ? There I was, crocheting away like a fiend, readying a scarf/shawl for a friends birthday, and wondering what had made me startContinue reading
