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I fell in love with Ellen Lesperance‘s paintings at the Seattle Art Museum.
Ms. Lesperance – a Portland resident! – takes archival footage of female activists doing direct action while wearing sweaters and uses the images to create knitting charts of those sweaters.
Ms. Lesperance’s sweater chart paintings are meant to memorialize female participation in social ...
Well, my “wife” and I have been together for 7 years now! To celebrate our anniversary, we went on a dinner-movie date last night. We ate vegan yumminess at Blossoming Lotus cafe and then went out to the new Jane Eyre movie at the Hollywood theater. So many wonderful things in one place…good food, good wine, good lady, good movie….I feel blessed!
Alright, enough...
Life has been stressful lately. I needed a crochet project BAD. So, I took out one of my vintage crochet magazines…..
and found this stunning pattern for a cocktail dress…..
Of course, as always seems to be the case with these things, I didn’t have enough yarn to make it.
So, I ended up altering the pattern so that I could just make a shell (the top part)...
I spend a lot of time looking for inspirational images on the internet. I wanted to share this last batch with ya’ll because they are soooo spectacular and really interesting on so many levels.
I’m beginning to understand that my hat fetish and my snood obsession kind of go hand-in-hand. I’ve been doing research on vintage snood patterns and I’ve been having a little...
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