Woah -- you MACHINE-quilted that? I promise you that's harder than hand-quilting ("wrestling alligators" is one metaphor) -- anyone who doubts it, look at the space between the needle and the solid body of the machine and picture moving an entire quilt, rolled or otherwise, through there. Besides, the feed-dogs move the bottom at a different rate than the top, unless you let them down (hence the textural pleats) and if you DO let them down then you're entirely in charge of moving it at a reasonable rate. Wow. Impressed doesn't begin to cover it. (Beautiful should go without saying -- but maybe beautiful should never go without saying.)
I call extra points for the Centerville/St. Joseph County fair having the word "Grange" in its title: http://www.centrevillefair.com/ Not only a ferris wheel, but a county courthouse WITH lighted clockface next door so that if you go up at sunset you're eye-level with it.
And Zelda @5? Many thanks. I'd missed the MacDonald Protocol for Folk-song Safety the first time around. I had identified the Scottish gift for I-shouldn'ta-hadn'ta-oughtn'ta-ganged songs, but this is so much more exhaustive. And now I want a tee shirt which says "No good will come of it."
Looks like rain here -- hope you have all their bases covered.
Teresa may remember Stephanie Pearl-McPhee/The Yarn Harlot criticizing a yarn by saying it was as splitty as J-Lo.
@21 Clifton Royston -- Which blessed Sellar and Yeatman in *1066 and All That* further torqued by translating it as "Not Angels but Anglicans."
I saw Francine Prose speak in May; her current project is a study of the three Anne Frank diaries: the original one, the complete rewrite she did after hearing the broadcast (she took Peter out) and the version her father did for publication (he put Peter back in.) She's convinced that the diary deserves to be taken seriously as a text (or set of texts) -- the book should be interesting.
Dave Bell @ 195
Eulalie's! (i.e. Black Shorts!)
Deep sigh of pleasure.
Michael@115 -- I can't be having with that. It's not like she referenced hedgehog impenetrability. Still, thanks -- if you haven't got respect, you haven't got anything.
Caroline@67 -- "Aten't dead?" Nice slipping it in, there, Granny. (A reward for careful reading - thanks!)
John H @25
Hello mah baby, hello mah honey, hello mah ragtime gal...
Well, given Jim McDonald's timely flu-post and bearing in mind that the "sangre" in "sangria" is blood, could we have a white sangria if we called it NKgria? (From what you say of eating the fruit the next day the NK would even be appropriate.)
Waiter, I'll have the Sturgeon.
Polyunsaturated ghee!
Oh,TOO bad -- you didn't beat the Reaper...
Sarah S @132 -- Took me a minute -- I was hearing "Pratchett spins" as a variant on "Jesus wept," meaning "...in his grave..." Light dawned. Wheel? Spindle? I was touched by the new spindler above who worried about what she would do with all the yarn -- like the gardener worrying about how to can peas. Not generally a big problem...
Well, and there's the repetitive-motion soothing aspect, like rocking or quilting. Fuzzy Valium, that's what it is.
(Spinning's more potent -- we're talking flatliner territory, there.)
And two handshakes between me and Lincoln. But I'm a straight shot to The Yarn Harlot -- bring it.
#17 -- Not the movie of Women in Love? She's the Ottoline Morrel character, and a joy.
Well, I suppose I could look before I whine.
http://socklady.wordpress.com/2009/01/18/pete-seeger-in-a-socklady-hat/#comment-77
a Vermont company (bien sur) was the source of the hat. Oddly, they've discontinued wool hats AND wool socks. Less oddly, they're being besieged with requests for the pattern. Me, I'd settle for a clear shot of it.
Yo, knitters! What about Pete's amazing cap? Looked like a rainbow version of a French Liberty cap (who, me, project?) One point for whoever finds its source, ten points for a pattern. (Allons enfants de la Raverly!)
And, to an earlier comment, of course we're expecting too much. It's our job to expect too much.
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