Karen's Craft Odyssey

I emailed in last night’s post — you can tell because gmail automatically added my email signature. I’m at my own PC tonight, so I have pictures!
[thumb:468:l]Here’s what all my doilies looked like when I pinned them out. I used a fairly heavy dose of starch (3 heaping dessert spoons mixed in about [...]

Hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas. Here we have been breaking
in Frank’s new toy — he got a Wii for Christmas. I think we put 14
hours on it yesterday and probably 10 today.
I’ve also been knitting. I finished another doily and pinned out 3 others.
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Holidays have been a great time to catch up on reading books that I’ve been meaning to read. Frank and I are both in the middle of On Beauty by Zadie Smith and The Omivore’s Dilemma by Michael Pollan. (one fiction and one non-fiction)
On Beauty has an academic setting. The two main [...]

I’ve actually had a bit of time to knit now that I’m on holiday. I knit two lace doilies this week (still need to block them, so no pictures). The first was “Freda Frase’s Small Doily” from this book. The second was “Doily with Star” from the YarnOver website. Both were [...]

Ok. It’s holiday time. I should be posting more.
So, what have I been up to? Well, the first part of the month was spent finishing up on a few baby projects. One of my colleagues at work has gone on maternity leave, and my brother Steve has just had a son [...]