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Eat your greens
I have come back from Sussex absolutely refreshed and inspired and it was exactly the sort of adventure that was required. I have come back also with a very warm head. The pattern is Red Lipstick’s Headigan, available to buy from her webshop here and worth every penny. I knit the hat with a combination […]
Words and Pictures
When I was an undergraduate I did my first printing project using any real consideration of type. The printing involved making tickets for a performance I created called ‘Concert for a closed cinema.’ The concert comprised flute, accordion and voice lamenting the closure of an independant cinema in Dublin, in 3 movements. I based the […]
Mending
I appear to be having some kind of small arthritis flare up. The joints I know for sure have been actively flaring up in the past are very slightly aching but more than that, I’m absolutely shattered. One of the side effects of long-term illness and conditions is that they place an ongoing and difficult […]
Mystery object revealed
It is time to reveal the truth about the mystery blueness in the last post. You see Mark’s niece left some little mice here, last time she stayed with us. I found them all nesting under a pillow on our cornerseat: I quickly discovered that – being an adventurous bunch – they had ambitions to […]
Blue
I am knitting with the yarn I dyed myself, making a simple feather and fan scarf according to this pattern, which I found through Ravelry. I love the feather and fan pattern so much; it looks really complicated but is unbelievably easy with a simple 4-row repeat. The resulting fabric has great structure and shows […]
Finished Object: DROPS design top
The vest is finally done. I ripped back the seams 3 times before I was happy with the way they were looking; I think mattress stitch on bias fabric with ribbing on it is ridiculously difficult to seam neatly and if I knit this again, I’ll adapt it in such a way that it can […]
Letterpress Time…
At 3pm today, GMT, I will be on Radio 4’s Questions, Questions, talking about my washing up recordings. That is the BBC Reading flag, photographed at the studios on Tuesday, when I went over there to link up to Radio 4. At the end of this post I have put links to some of the […]
Domestic unbliss / washing up…
You may remember the code I devised for ‘washing up types’ many months ago whilst working on the Fantastical Reality Radio Show with Mundane Appreciation?According to that scale I position myself resolutely as a type C washer-upper; i.e. I dislike doing it, I leave it until it absolutely must be done (i.e. there is nothing […]
Apples and Pea-tatoes
Our apple tree has produced its annual glut of fruit and we have gone crazy making stuff from the fruit. Today we had apple and cider sauce with parsnip mash and duck for tea, and baked an apple harvest cake. Tomorrow, parsnip and apple soup are planned as well as an invented trout and apple […]
Brassica Brassica Cabbage (BBC)
I am working on a short, 10-minute piece for OCM’s BBC Oxford broadcasts about Magic Hour and my work with sounds. It is proving harder than I thought to link the ideas – for example – the work I made for FRRS, with my role in the feedback shed. Thankfully, it should all make sense […]
Volcanoes
Until I went to Naples I had never been anywhere near live Volcanoes. It was very exciting to experience volcanic landscapes; to listen to the bubbling mud at Solfatara and to hear water steaming out of the hot ground at 150 and 160*C temperatures. I made lots of recordings of the steam at Solfatara but […]
Collage
Yesterday I was helping Sam with his homework. His assignment was to make an all-blue collage. I loaded up the dining room table with blue goodness; envelope interiors, old offcuts of J-cloths used in Fantastical Reality Radio Show productions, airmail stickers, tissue paper from my birthday package that Caro sent me (I save *all* the […]
rainbows…
The dyed yarn is all drying off. It has been a very exciting but intensive few days! What a lot of boiling water, rinsing yarn, drying yarn, weighing out mordants, chopping up leaves, cleaning mud and spiders off things and lugging big kettles of water around has been going on! Hats off to Katie for […]
Vegspiration
I am amazed and delighted by the sheer quantity of produce emerging from our garden right now. Coming from untrained and totally suburban roots, the fact of growing my own food or producing stuff from the garden still feels like a constant miracle to me. Skills and knowledge are effortfully and deliberately acquired rather than […]
Learning the ropes…
I won’t bore you with loads of details re: WordPress. Let’s just say I’m learning. What I really want to do now, though, is get all editions of the Fantastical Reality Radio Show up in the podcast player I just installed. Let’s see how this goes…
Ravelympics update finally!
It is time to reflect on my performance in the Ravelympics. Firstly, I have learned that I am no knitting athlete. I am better at over-committing to things than completing things and I have boundless optimism when it comes to gauge-ing how long my projects are going to take. That’s a nice way of saying […]
The End, already…
The shed has been dismantled and my Pops collected it early today to take back to the family home for use as a potting shed. I am really happy that my Mum will get some use out of it and it was really great to be able to share the joy of the whole project […]
The Shed of Dreams
I have fallen deeply, madly and passionately in love with my little feedback shed. I do not need or want or have the space for a garden shed in my life and so I will not be keeping it in any long-term way. I also know that if it ever comes home with me, it […]
Magic Hour
On arriving back from my holidays I found myself faced with a new job. The job is amazing; it is to think up creative ways of getting feedback from people about their experiences at Magic Hour. Magic Hour is the latest exciting endeavour from Oxford Contemporary Music. I love working with Oxford Contemporary Music and […]
The textures of Napoli…
A different language is a different reality; what is the language, the world, of stones? What is the language, the world, of birds? Of atoms? Of microbes? Of air? – Jeanette Winterson, Art Objects The images, interviews and sound clips that I collect will sound foreign; it’s noisy here, it’s big, and I think truly […]
Home from Naples.
I always love to come home from a holiday, but one of the things that makes that homecoming extra special is a good bit of post. For instance, a letter from the AHRC saying that yes, I have funding for the remainder of my PhD studies. That’s the very best sort of homecoming to be […]
08 08 08
Today is the official start of the Olympics and therefore the Ravelympics. I have kit and projects, and I am all warmed up thanks to yesterday’s squash-knitting exercises. All I have to do is start. I also participated in an 08 08 08 swap. The deal was to send 8 postcards in exchange for 8 […]
Because sometimes you just have to…
…be very, very silly. Thanks for the pattern, Gewerken.
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