These are my two ebay plates. The first one says Haviland France. The second plate says E & C France 1899.
My new Vittoria Our Lady of Lourdes. It’s made of pulverized stone and marble and made in Italy. I just like it. I think for now I’ll keep her standing above and behind my computer to remind me to be nice online.
I just finished a baby hat and baby booties in pink. The pinks won’t really match the sweater, but it might do well enough together. That’s another button hat in Rowan Soft Baby and the booties are in that wonderful Debbie Bliss baby cashmerino. I need to buy some more of that!
Bailey managed to take up one whole picture. You can just see the top of the hat over his back. He must have jumped up there 6 times while I tried to snap a picture.
Finished a new sweater. I started it on the July Alaskan cruise, so this sweater has been in or over many states, plus Canada. I used Opal cotton yarn, which actually has 38% wool, 32% polyamide, and 30% cotton. I used the free opal yarn baby sweater pattern, on their website. The pattern goes sideways which is neat, and wasn’t too hard. I didn’t have trouble following the pattern but I usually like more complete directions than this had. Maybe this means I am lazy but I just don’t like having to figure out how to space out buttonholes and how to make buttonholes and so on without directions. It’s probably good for me to have to figure it out. I used the entire ball except for some orange bits to make the sweater in the newborn/3 month size with size 1 needles. It would take a second ball to make the hat and booties, and if I had used a size 2 needle, I would have definitely run out of yarn too early. It blocked out very nicely.
size: 9.5 inches tall, if the collar part is measured. 11.5 inches across the body.
Spent the weekend fixing the piles of stuff in the office. It’s all useful, educational junk, but unaccessible stuffed into piles like that.
$35 and three days later:
The mahogany shelves are just the right size for magazines, and they fold up for easy storage when I get all those magazines read. (riiiiight)
Bailey hung out in the office with me and helped a lot, when he wasn’t napping.
With two vaccines, that is. He spent the entire day sleeping. He had a busy morning, though–we were an hour early for the vet so I let him explore the car. He had a blast. Then the vet wiped gunk out of his eyes and stuffed some toothpastey hairball remover into his mouth, and then gave him two shots. So he had reason to be tired, poor baby. By the next day he was his normal clingey, whiney, post-vacation (not post-vaccination) traumatized kitty self. Hope this phase ends soon. This picture was taken while he was still drugged out on vaccines.
Here’s my second evening purse. This one is made with a ball of Ella Rae classic worsted weight wool, felted. I used the Suzzanne’s Purse pattern, with about 20 extra stitches. I had to change all the rest of the numbers used in the pattern as well, but I winged it and didn’t write the changes down. I also used an icord strap with 5 stitches. It all worked out just great. I like it plain just the way it is. It’s plenty stiff enough to hold its shape. I would like to use a magnetic snap for the flap but haven’t found any yet. Finished size: 8 * 2 * 2.
Here’s another shot of the evening bag, and also the alpine lace scarf, being modeled by my mother.
Finally, here is the 8 * 10 nativity icon I found at a Russian store in Alaska. Love it. Not sure it looks as… authentic as some of the other images, the style of the figures is different, but I still love it.
