A tatted swap

Finally, I finished re-making/replacing the wrist cuff bracelet I’ve been working on. I wanted to do a simple pattern and work it into a bracelet, so that is exactly what I did: This is four strips of tatting– two bands of two rows each worked into each other, then the two bands are woven together […]

Another tatted thing

In mid-January, I tackled some silk hankies: which I bought in December at Pam’s store. Hankies are single silkworm cocoons that have been prepped and “spread out” into squares that are about the same size and shape as handkerchiefs. I spun them on my drop spindle, into this lovely laceweight yarn: There’s all of 2 […]

Kennedy Space Center and other stuff

As Johnny mentioned in the last post, we’ve been exploring SPACE the past two weeks. We went to the Kennedy Space Center twice to see the exhibits and the shuttle and learn a bit about the space program. There’s a full-scale orbiter to explore at the KSC, so we did…. A very large area in […]