Margaret Rose Stringer's Blog, page 33
June 28, 2019
My unfortunate eldest sister
Whispering Gums reminded me in a comment, totally unintentionally, of something vile I did to Jocelyn, my most respectable and quite brilliant sister (there were once 5 of us, but now we are only 3).
The comment was regarding my completing a crocheted lapghan for Jocie – the one in two shades of grey NO NOT FIFTY !!!! – that I posted about here. A serious bit of work, of which I am proud.
However, the vile thing was this:
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Heh heh …
It is in fact quite a good FO: the pattern got a bit tricky...
June 26, 2019
The vintage walrus has begun
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I’m fairly happy with the first few motifs, even though the row that caused me so much trouble that I had to seek help from someone on the Italian Scot’s Facebook site – which I did, of course !, by email – is also that on which the background colour cannot be hidden. Sighh … This kind woman sent me a chart; but was obliged to confess that she hasn’t actually got around to making the Walrus.
So if you check back to the picture from the pattern you can see that my motifs do actually resemble...
June 23, 2019
Hooray for Ravelry !
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This is fairly mind-boggling … that a craft site, regardless of its member numbers, should take a stand in such a fashion. I congratulated them in a forum as soon as I’d read about this on Spinning Anna’s site.
Here are three reports by on-line publishers:
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Buzzfeed
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The Guardian
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Business Insider
Amazed by Buzzfeed’s, OK with The Guardian’s and happy with Business Insider. Happiest of all, of course, with Ravelry itself.
:)
June 19, 2019
Crikey !- more problems!
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That is NOT Lui. Not my cat. Whose ? – a matter of conjecture …
Yesterday morning, at the unspeakable hour I am dragged out of bed by the cat who IS Lui – in the close vicinity of 5 am – I let him out the side sliding door into the yard and went into the kitchen to turn on The Coffee Machine. Waited for all the processes of heating and grinding and pulling the shot and making the milk red-hot, and finished. Suddenly realized Lui hadn’t come back in.
Wandered casually out and around the back...
June 17, 2019
First problem with living at MACS
It’s my address.
I kinda knew it would cause problems, but I didn’t realize how they would point up our national postal service as being … well, unbelievable, really. Nor how they’d show just how appallingly unsatisfactory is our taxi service.
The whole complex has the address of 100 Weddell Road; and admin says that for mail I simply preface that with my unit number and a slash (forward, not the … ahh … bladder-relieving kind !). But being an old fart and not having a car, I do a lot of shop...
June 15, 2019
And here’s the other story
This is such fun !
As my colours aren’t the same as Lucia’s, I needed to get some way of arranging them that didn’t involve taking her 63 squares pages and replacing my colours on her list. The GSCPG was it !
Had a feeling I’d once seen something of this kind on-line, so searched under “mathematical way of using many colours” or the like, and sure enough, there it was. O happy day !
Enter 9 squares wide by 7 square high by 4 colours in each square and press GENERATE and Bob’s yer uncle.
Oh,...
June 12, 2019
‘Tis done ! (and dusted)
Whoever thought I had the staying power ? – pas moi !
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But I listened to several audiobooks with Lui snoring between my knees on the recliner chair, and it is actually finished: 6 balls of Scheepjes Colour Crafter @ 300m each. Nearly two kilometres !!!
I shall post this off to my eldest sister – unhappily, just as Paris is warming up. Never mind: she can stash it away in some nice-smelling drawer, ready to be brought out as soon as the weather turns cold-ish. It’s not a heavy lapghan, but sof...
June 9, 2019
My hometown’s doing alright
This is REALLY impressive. So damned simple !
An obvious question (which would be received in silence were I able to put it): to all the town and city Australian Councils – why haven’t you taken this up ?!
Oh, and P.S.: when I grew up in Perth, Kwinana was, like, a completely different part of the topography. The thought of its ever being listed as part of Perth would’ve had us in fits of laughter, scorn or amazement …
Need a screengrab !
From anyone who casts a bleary eye on this post.
Please.
I am unable to see a “follow blog” option of any kind on my site, no matter how many times I apply the widget hereto. Whilst I do not kid myself that there’s a large and swelling crowd growing ever more restless as they wait to sign up, I do think it’s pretty silly not to have the option available.
Its absence has caused me to wonder what else might be missing.
So if anyone would be good enough to take a screengrab of whatever fills his...
June 4, 2019
If I had a house
Thank all the gods I don’t ! Stringer and I only ever had two: the first was the house he built for us from the ground up to the roof of the second storey on Dangar Island in the mighty Hawkesbury River, on the northernmost fringe of the Sydney suburban area. The second was the semi-detached we bought in Sydney’s Inner West, a suburb called Annandale, after we sold the Island house. He made astonishingly wonderful changes to that one, putting in a cellar office underneath and a stairway up to...
