like these DPNs?
how 'bout these?
now these are DPNs! actually they're the same DPNs!
a few years ago my aunt gave me these. she found them when she was cleaning out her attic - she lives in the same home my nana and pop-pop lived in. she was doing the purge of her own, and thought i'd like them. we don't know who they belonged to, but someone did some serious circular knitting with them. they are at least 18 inches long.
there were also smaller DPNs (sock knitting ones), buttons, a bag full of spools of thread, and a box full of lace. some day i'll go through the lace, and see if i can salvage it - it might be useful for edging something. there were also bobbins and shuttles - someone tatted lace. i'd love to learn that. it's a disappearing art. maybe next year at KDO, someone will teach tatting again.
i love carrying on the family tradition of crafting. nana crocheted, and i knit. hopefully petunia or the boys might want to knit or crochet too. not a bad legacy to pass on.
we're in the midst of the big snow #2. we have at least 8 inches on top of the 6 we got over the weekend. i have to laugh when people call this cluster of storms "snowmegeddon". obviously they never lived through the blizzard of '93 or the month of winter hell that was january '96. i remember those storms fondly. we had just moved to sunbury days before the '93 blizzard, and dad couldn't preach his second sunday because of state snow emergency. and in '96, we had a big snow, a heat wave (i remember running around campus the middle of january wearing nothing but a baby doll dress and clogs), which led to flooding, then a big freeze that froze the flooding and made ice jams. that was especially fun - i had school registration, and we drove over a road that was closed becos of frozen flooding. and the isle of que got hammered with flooding.
i hate to admit it, but the snow is pretty.
how 'bout these?
now these are DPNs! actually they're the same DPNs!
a few years ago my aunt gave me these. she found them when she was cleaning out her attic - she lives in the same home my nana and pop-pop lived in. she was doing the purge of her own, and thought i'd like them. we don't know who they belonged to, but someone did some serious circular knitting with them. they are at least 18 inches long.
there were also smaller DPNs (sock knitting ones), buttons, a bag full of spools of thread, and a box full of lace. some day i'll go through the lace, and see if i can salvage it - it might be useful for edging something. there were also bobbins and shuttles - someone tatted lace. i'd love to learn that. it's a disappearing art. maybe next year at KDO, someone will teach tatting again.
i love carrying on the family tradition of crafting. nana crocheted, and i knit. hopefully petunia or the boys might want to knit or crochet too. not a bad legacy to pass on.
we're in the midst of the big snow #2. we have at least 8 inches on top of the 6 we got over the weekend. i have to laugh when people call this cluster of storms "snowmegeddon". obviously they never lived through the blizzard of '93 or the month of winter hell that was january '96. i remember those storms fondly. we had just moved to sunbury days before the '93 blizzard, and dad couldn't preach his second sunday because of state snow emergency. and in '96, we had a big snow, a heat wave (i remember running around campus the middle of january wearing nothing but a baby doll dress and clogs), which led to flooding, then a big freeze that froze the flooding and made ice jams. that was especially fun - i had school registration, and we drove over a road that was closed becos of frozen flooding. and the isle of que got hammered with flooding.
i hate to admit it, but the snow is pretty.
the bird bath's under there somewhere...
any water in those barrels are popcicles now.
poor hubby. the snow coats him like a second skin. and may i add, he shoveled the front, plus the back, our driveway and part of the alley, by hand. no snowblowers here!
thank goodness for snow days.
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