Sunday in MA

It was predicted to be a rainy day, yesterday. But only a drop fell on us.

I met my brother in Cambridge to spend a few hours together. It was a wonderful afternoon. Too bad we live so far apart.

We started the MIT press bookstore. http://web.mit.edu/bookstore/www/ It took us an hour to browse through all the indie press titles. That bookstore is a wonderful resource. The art selection is not the ordinary. One book, about Crochet, was crochet shown and created using math configurations. Thus, MIT's interest!

I bought Inspiring Writing in Art and Design: Taking a line for a while by Pat Francis. This fit right in with my current classwork by Susie Monday: Text on the Surface. http://www.susiemonday.com/ I am one of her test pilots and the class is motivating me to create more art.

Back to yesterday: Following the hour of browsing through all the terrific books. We lunched at Legal Sea Foods in Kendall Square. www.legalseafoods.com Umm, the Asian Vegetables with Scallops were delicious.

Two very full people decided to walk. And we did. Around MIT and across the Harvard Bridge to Boston. Along the Charles River : things were so beautiful and in bloom. Then across the crumbling Longfellow Bridge to Kendall Square. - 1 1/2 hours! It seems everyone was jogging or sailing or walking.

Rick, my brother went on to fly to Germany to work in Europe for the week. I drove home and two hours later it rained! What luck.

(This is a bridge in Back Bay Boston.)

HELP! Seeking advice for the UFO

Several years ago I took a fair isle class from what was then the Webs’ Master Knitting program. They had personnel issues and the program changed. To make this short, I did not continue with the program. I had started this fair isle sweater during the Master Knitting Class and the new program leader washed her hands of helping the previous customers. Thus, I am left in a lurch with a sweater I am trying to complete.

Here is my dilemma. I created the body of the fair isle sweater using Knitting the Old Way by Priscilla Roberts-Gibson. I never bound off the shoulders and instead went to my LYS, which has since closed, to try to learn how to finish this sweater. She had me steek the front and put the front bands on. Before I got that done, she closed her shop. (Sounds like a bad luck story here!)

Now, the sleeves are knitted. I want to finish the sweater and I can figure out the neck band but I have all the stitches on the needle – neck and shoulders, etc.

Shall I bind off doing a three needle bind off for the shoulders now or knit some more? And shape the shoulders? Or shall I count off the neckline stitches and create it, after which I can do the bind off for the shoulders.

Any suggestions are welcome!

March 26 reception

Its' almost here. I am wall to wall with work. Here are two of my most recent collages which are being framed so I can feature them for a month.

Not the best photos but it works in person.

Be sure to visit me at the Walpole Artisan Cooperative Friday evening 5 -7 pm.

Gallery Artist Opening

Save the date! Friday, March 26 will be the opening reception for three featured artists at the Walpole Artisan Cooperative. I am one of the artists and am doing new work. Pictures will follow.
Joe Beer and the Ideal Board are the other two. The opening begins at 5pm. Please join us!
See you there.

Glass gallery opening

Beth's show at Heller Gallery opened on the 4th March with a huge crowd. Here is Beth setting up the show with her work which is being set up. Check out the final look at www.hellergallery.com.

Hiking Mt. Wantastisquet

Last week I took a break from doing my ebay sales to take a hike mup Mt. Wantastisquet. Not far up the trail, I found this A frame house. Is it for people or deer?

Who knows. It does offer some snow protection.

Then I kept hearing a hammering noise. Not many people were out and I couldn't understand who would be hammering. About 100 yards futher into the trail, I saw a beautiful woodpecker with the longest beak, ever! Despite my attempts, I could not capture him in a photographer. He was really putting a hole in the top of this tree! That beak created the hammering noise.

Today, it is sooooo cold outside that working on ebay sales is just the thing to do.

Yesterday I finished the birthday cards for the 1 year old twins who are in Tacoma, Washington with their folks until Thursday. Beth, their mom, is working at the Museum of Glass Art Studio for an artist residency. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2INvZWb9a-4

Not a good picture. It is fabric collage with the big 1 in the center.

The Holidays are over!

After a nice calm Christmas, we went to WI to see our daughter and exchange a few gifts.

Knowing my affection for all things heritage, I received this box of notecards. The Museum of the City of New York hosts my cousin, Sam Gottscho's photography. He worked the the New York Times as a photographer.

The photography is stunning ; it makes my heart sing. http://www.mcny.org/shop/18/167/9249/new-york-note-cards.html

Our flight went well. Air Tran was a goood airline and because they aren't a biggie, for once, the TSA was kind to me. WI is very cold. Glad to be home, even if it is snowing now.