The Domestic Soundscape making, listening, thinkingfelicityford@outlook.com
New Year’s knitting resolutions
I enjoyed Megan’s ‘best of 2008’ that I wanted to write one myself. Clockwise from the top left: Jaywalker in Lorna’s laces, DROPS design vest, Tatami, sock swatching tube, dyed yarn for vest, natural dyed yarn feather and fan scarf, bobbins at cold harbour mill, my stash, Mr Bump beanie, Headigan, Hop Scotch Sock, knitted […]
Personal Treasures
Object play – for adults as well as children – engages the heart as well as the mind; it is a source of inner vitality…during all stages of life we continue to search for objects that we can experience as both within and outside of the self. – Sherry Turkle, What makes an object evocative? […]
Cooking with Banana Leaves
Ever since I read the recipe for fish cooked in banana leaves, I was filled with desire. But Banana leaves proved to be A. not very plentiful in the shopping precincts of Berkshire and B. impossible to grow. So I abandoned the mission. Until, that is, I saw the formerly unobtainable leaves glistening with promise […]
FO: Mr Bump Inspired Double Knit Beanie
I present the completed Mr Bump-inspired*-double-knit-Beanie-Hat I made for Mark this year for Christmas. Ravelled here. A tantalising glimpse of the hat. Shamefully, I presented this article of clothing to Mark in an unknitted state on Christmas morning, but I think I redeemed myself by completing it in time for the walking holiday. Beautifully wrapped […]
Start as you mean to go on
I was lucky enough this year to get up to the Highlands between Christmas and New Year for a few days of serious walking. Mark and I have been talking for some months now about how we want to get in better shape and about how happy walking actually makes us. I have also been […]
Sound hunting
Some of you may remember the top twenty irritating noise chart show that was a feature in The Fantastical Reality Radio Show. In order to collate the top twenty chart, I went in search of the noises people cited as being irritating. I got most of these sounds recorded but one sound in particular was […]
The Impatient Knitter
Does anyone remember this satanic evilness? It is the long-ago abandoned Moonlight Sonata Shawl project in Fleece Artist Goldiehair and it has now to my deepest relief, been frogged and repurposed for an alternative project. I have been trying to design some patterns recently and after a few false starts, some really bad maths, lots […]
poster competition
I have just received an email from the Oxford Brookes University annual poster competition, calling for entries. Entrants can put in any poster they have designed themselves, for consideration within the competition. The guidelines concerning the nature of the poster are somewhat vague: PLEASE ATTACH A SHORT (APPROX 250 WORDS) ABSTRACT OUTLINING THE WORK TO […]
More walking and listening
I stayed in Sussex last week with Julia and spent the days mostly marching around on the South Downs and in the Romney Marshes. This activity has given me some much needed high quality sleep, plenty of fresh air and a lovely sense of vitality that has been somewhat missing from previous, less active weeks. […]
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