Margaret Rose Stringer's Blog, page 27

Trying something new

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Just because you have no idea what it is don’t mean it’s no good, you know. [grin]

I’m crocheting a cardigan in a top-down pattern ! – first time for top-down, ever ! Of course, a knitted top-down cardi would be the ultimate challenge (yesyes Anna – I hear you saying “Not for some !” and sniffing); but that’s for STITDF. Work that one out if you can.

(Also, I am using yarn left over from a unsuccessful project. Well, in truth it wasn’t actually unsuccessful: I just totally lost interest in...

John Menadue’s blog – a post therefrom

MARK BUCKLEY. Three Amigos

How does this make me feel ?

I have a friend over in Perth; a man who is, I think, my very oldest friend of all – meaning the one who comes from farthest back. Longest ago. You get the picture.

Roger is a serial emailer: he receives emails of humour or interest from all over, and re-sends them to various groups of his friends and colleagues. A couple of his thread topics cause my blood to boil, and I tell him so in no uncertain terms. But there – you don’t agree with everything your friends like or do, do you ?!

Today he...

Climate change for deniers

I suppose I shouldn’t grump that this video comes from Facebook: most people who use Facebook do so because it doesn’t involve pecuniary outlay (but it isn’t actually ‘free’ at all).

But this Greenpeace video is good. Whether or not it has the slightest effect on the wilfully deaf and blind pollies is another thing.

I remember fulminating wildly against Tony Abbott and his bloody collection of morons when I was first blogging: Scott Morrison and his band of beasts are actually worse,...

One word only: HALLELUJAH !!!

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And here is a video of it, which I insert largely on account of the loud shout I give mid-way through. You soon observe why. :D

The colours are too well-bred, I have decided. In fact, I decided that some years back (What ? – I haven’t been knitting this for years ? Well, I’ll be blowed !) by which time it was Too Late. Alas.

I’m not going to be able to enter it into the Geelong craft comp next year: it’s not nearly good enough. The last bit of brioche was marked, for me, by the virtual...

Why does such a STUPID fashion hang on ?!

I was looking through today’s instalment of Knitting Patterns Galore when I came across this image:

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I don’t believe I need to say a lot more: my argument is evident.

I think I might be mad already !

I first wrote as the header “I think I might be going mad”. Wrong. :(

It’s The Shawl.

(I’m not going to post a photo, as that will happen when – IF ! – I finish the bloody thing.)

I am so close to the end that I can scarcely believe the errors I’m making. It starts with a large V-shaped section of 2-colour brioche; and it ends with an upside-down ditto. So I’m decreasing at one end every 2nd row (what you might think to be 4th but it isn’t because 2-colour brioche takes two passes to make on...

A bit of mischief

Well, here we have it !

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First sighting of an actually identifiable hand in this whole long, miserable time.

And now it can be seen for what it is, all that stuff about his hands: it’s the fingers !

They’re out of proportion, see ? – far too short for the size of the palm.

So now we know.

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Quote of the day

“Be yourself: everyone else is already taken.” – Oscar Wilde, attrib.

I laughed like anything !:)

I saw this quote on the NEW BLOG of my very dear blogging friend Simon Johnson – a man who is quite unable to stop widening his cerebral horizons. I admire him enormously.

Problems with colour pairing

Two-colour brioche: why is it so bloody hard to pick two colours that work together ?

It seems so easy when you start off with your great pattern and your two colours of whatever yarn you’ve chosen … They look so good together in your knitting basket – can’t fail to be terrific.

But they do.

The reverse side is just – wrong.

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Why on the front does the green vertical row sit proud and the violet row provide merely background; and on the reverse the green is competing with the foreground violet...