Stitching up a memory . . . .

You might remember that a few posts ago I mentioned having tosew on one last button for a baby sweater I’d knit. The project had stalled because I lost one of the 5 buttons bought…

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Give you a Hand?

Thought I’d wake you up this Saturday morning with a bit of pattern-mixing! My newly-completed Camilla mittens (pattern free, from the wonderful Spillyjane Knits ) I’m reasonably pleased with how these turned out — I’d wanted…

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Reading the Signs . . .

A window of a small independent publisher’s bookstore/office, somewhere in Paris’ St. Germain area, if I remember correctly. I have a wealth of bookstore window photos — can’t seem to resist them. And those chairs…

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2012 Reading List

I’m not sure why it’s taken me three weeks into the year to get my 2012 Reading List posted, given that I compile it on an ongoing basis throughout the year, but I suppose I…

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Dressing for Comfort (with a dash of style, I hope . . ).

Cold, damp cold, the kind that insinuates itself nastily between every fold, burrowing deep into joints, making old injuries whine. And then the other kind of cold, the one that attaches a soggy kleenex to…

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Copyright

Unless otherwise stated, all words and photographs in this blog are my own. If you wish to use any of them, please give me credit for my work. And it should go without saying, but apparently needs to be said: Do not publish entire posts as your own. I will take the necessary action to stop such theft. Thanks.