Dragonbait (Fallen Friends)

"Для изучения межпланетного пространства привлекательно весьма
использование котов, поскольку являются они животными весёлыми
и к пессимизму несклонными."
К.Э. Циолковский

I bet you didn't realize that giraffes were born to disco.

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Laminaria, complete but not yet blocked Sorry about the blurriness of the photo: I am not comfortable standing on a chair to photograph big things at the moment, so had to just hold the camera up and hope. The edges look ruffly now, but the shawl actually blocks into points.

Detail of primary lace pattern and edging Including several of those creepy faces that made me want ot knit this in the first place!

Closer detail of edging and creepy faces They all look a little different. ;-)

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Was it hard? No, but I wouldn't have said that about this project even five years ago. In fact, it was dead easy, so easy that I found the patterns extremely easy to memorise. This became train knitting. In fact, I finished the knitting on a train this afternoon and cast off this evening in front of the television. :-)

I suppose if I'd been interested in knitted lace five years ago, I could have got up to speed on lace. But I only really became interested in lace when I first saw Victorian Lace Today. Something about the colours they chose in that book and the realisation that, duh, lace doesn't have to be made out of white cotton or mohair and it's not all about doilies and tablecloths made me change the way I thought about lace. It suddenly became interesting, and I started adding lace to socks, made some simple lace scarves, a blue alpaca neckwarmer. This is my first large scale lace project. I had 629 live stitches on the needle before I was done.

For you experienced lace knitters, yes, Laminaria is a walk in the park. It's very simple, very repetitive, you don't have to think much about the increases.

The plan is to block it tomorrow morning, but I've got to take into account my current state. It might take a while to work up the energy, and it might take a long time to pull the points out, given that I'll have to bend over something. Or I could just wait and get somebody to help me block it at some point in the amorphous future. I definitely want to wear it to class on Monday, though. It is deceptively light, and very warm. In the sunlight, the colour looks like, well, sunlight on grass.

• 21:37 Help, help, this cheesecake is attacking me! I'll have to eat my way out! #

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"Sea breeze" 2010. 100х90cm. Oil on canvas
Anna Silivonchik. silivonchik.ru/

***

We are all heavy-drinkers and whores,
What a joyless, miserable crowd!
There are flowers and birds on the walls,
And the birds all grieve for a cloud.

You are smoking your old black pipe,
And the smoke looks strange over it.
The skirt that I’m wearing feels tight,
But I hope that it makes me look fit.

What’s the weather – thunder or ice?
Here, the windows are all boarded shut.
I examine your face and your eyes
Have the look of a sly cautious cat.

Oh, what sadness I’m feeling inside!
Am I waiting for death’s solemn bell?
And that girl, who’s been dancing all night, -
She will surely end up in hell.

Anna Akhmatova, 1914

• 21:13 Wish I could still give blood, they do keep sending letters asking. Pity really. #
• 21:19 Unrelatedly, I'm curious as to exactly what impulse moved the girl at the checkout to spend an extra 7 seconds folding my receipt so neatly. #
• 21:25 It wasn't just in half, oh no, she really went to town. Apparently I'm so deprived of interest I find this small thing quite intriguing. #

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TITLE: Lady of the Valley
MEDIUM: Acrylic on canvas
SIZE: 8" x 6"

I was watching DVD episodes of a show called "Monarch of the Glen," which is set in Scotland, while painting this. The scenery in the show was so beautiful that it influenced my background for this painting.

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