Not at all what I expected
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treeskinWent to Leavenworth this morning to meet Betty, the gal in charge of the recorder group, at the museum we'll be playing at next Sunday. It's the Carroll mansion, a lovely 1880's home. Betty grew up iwth the family who built the house, and is working on cataloging the collection there, so I got an inside scoop on where some of the things came from. She was there to help with a tour,a dn keep an eye on the phtographers from Victorian Decorating magazine, who were doing a Christmas shoot (she kept chasing them down to shove gloves on their hands before they touched any of the artifacts).
Anyhow, I ended up as part of the photo shoot, which was weird. The stylist caught me tatting, and decided she just had to have shots of my hands. So I ended up standing by the window, wearing the stylist's velvet coat (because my sweater wasn't very Victorian), holding my hands in my usual "show the silly people what I'm doing" pose, and thinking that the magazine is going to get some irritated emails from people, telling them that's not how you hold a tatting shuttle. That's got the be the longest I've ever stood still while holding a tatting shuttle.
Best dumb question of the morning, from the stylist of the magazine: "Tatting? Do people still do that?" To me, as I'm standing there, shuttle flashing and half a doily dangling from my hand....
Let's see, the last couple of days...Friday was cold, and slow. I spent the afternoon at work helping Donna move her free plants into the greenhouse where we could take inventory and be warm. 370 mixed perennials, some common, some not--pasque flower, 3 varieties of meadow sage, foam flower, 5 or 6 kinds of dianthus....Donna let me & some other people take somethings, "as long as you leave me 3 or 5 for a nice grouping" she said. I came home with 25 things, which I got planted yesterday afternoon.
Saturday was colder and slower at work than Friday. Got some knitting done; spent some time online looking at art card galleries and paper arts sites. Found some tempting paint stuff I want to try.
Spent Sunday morning lounging and reading; planted my perennials and daffodils and pulled weeds in the iris beds in the afternoon.
I was having trouble concentrating on anything Friday night, so I started another shawl with the grey wool yarn (which was also used for the Faroese shawl). Started out with the Pi shawl in Knitter's Almanac by Elizabeth Zimmerman, then started adding lace patterns. It's at 288 sts around right now, about 25" across, in a feather and fan pattern.
Not sure what's on the schedule for the afternoon. By's off to measure the back bathroom closet, then out to the garage to make new shelves so we can store blankets back there. The old shelves in that closet are due to become smaller shelves in the candle closet, which will make that much more useful. Slowly, surely, we will make places to put everything away.
Anyhow, I ended up as part of the photo shoot, which was weird. The stylist caught me tatting, and decided she just had to have shots of my hands. So I ended up standing by the window, wearing the stylist's velvet coat (because my sweater wasn't very Victorian), holding my hands in my usual "show the silly people what I'm doing" pose, and thinking that the magazine is going to get some irritated emails from people, telling them that's not how you hold a tatting shuttle. That's got the be the longest I've ever stood still while holding a tatting shuttle.
Best dumb question of the morning, from the stylist of the magazine: "Tatting? Do people still do that?" To me, as I'm standing there, shuttle flashing and half a doily dangling from my hand....
Let's see, the last couple of days...Friday was cold, and slow. I spent the afternoon at work helping Donna move her free plants into the greenhouse where we could take inventory and be warm. 370 mixed perennials, some common, some not--pasque flower, 3 varieties of meadow sage, foam flower, 5 or 6 kinds of dianthus....Donna let me & some other people take somethings, "as long as you leave me 3 or 5 for a nice grouping" she said. I came home with 25 things, which I got planted yesterday afternoon.
Saturday was colder and slower at work than Friday. Got some knitting done; spent some time online looking at art card galleries and paper arts sites. Found some tempting paint stuff I want to try.
Spent Sunday morning lounging and reading; planted my perennials and daffodils and pulled weeds in the iris beds in the afternoon.
I was having trouble concentrating on anything Friday night, so I started another shawl with the grey wool yarn (which was also used for the Faroese shawl). Started out with the Pi shawl in Knitter's Almanac by Elizabeth Zimmerman, then started adding lace patterns. It's at 288 sts around right now, about 25" across, in a feather and fan pattern.
Not sure what's on the schedule for the afternoon. By's off to measure the back bathroom closet, then out to the garage to make new shelves so we can store blankets back there. The old shelves in that closet are due to become smaller shelves in the candle closet, which will make that much more useful. Slowly, surely, we will make places to put everything away.
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Date: 2003-12-08 01:02 pm (UTC)Oh - the last time i was spinning (not at an event) someone actually sat, watched, asked fairly decent questions, then remarked, worriedly: they do have machines for that now, don't they?
Re: They have machines for that now, don't they?
Date: 2003-12-08 01:38 pm (UTC)Most recently, last time I was working on a pair of socks at work, which sparked a 20-minutes long silly-comment-session about how you can buy those at the store now, very cheaply, and why would I want to bother? My answer of "because I can" caused a great deal of confusion, and stopped the conversation.
I had trouble not laughing at the photographer, who kept calling my shuttle a "tool" because he couldn't remember the name for it. ANd he was torn between getting a good shot of my "tool" and my hands being in the right position for tatting. The good photo won.
The stylist was taken aback when I informed her that no, my shuttle was not antique, I bought it at Walmart a few years ago (a simple, cheap Susan Bates brand steel shuttle, nothing fancy).
Humans.