tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-43934991571422771862024-03-14T00:32:19.404+11:00the maidenhair treeJo Windmillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09172664001268350281noreply@blogger.comBlogger190125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4393499157142277186.post-8346975558336527062015-04-13T08:35:00.001+10:002015-04-13T08:37:49.920+10:00FoxieHe is finished.<br />
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Jo Windmillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09172664001268350281noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4393499157142277186.post-71051770886366800092015-04-11T11:45:00.001+10:002015-04-11T11:51:47.389+10:00Quick April PostLife in dot points:<br />
*Cooler nights, sunny days, leaves turning gorgeous tunes of red!<br />
*Ms Mabel is practicing her cello inspired by Jacqueline du Pre. Makes my heart glad. Last night I enjoyed her youth ensemble performing the riotous Comedy of Errors and the "killed it".<br />
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*<a href="http://ravel.me/fernyfrond/o9k5t">Foxie</a> nearly finished..a morning knit with<a href="http://kirti-lavidarustica.blogspot.com.au/"> Kirti</a>, of Lavida Rustica, Madame of the sock. <span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light', HelveticaNeue-Light, helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"> </span></div>
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*Percy and I spent a week at the safari zoo!!</div>
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*Ivy reminds me what a sublime age 12 can be. </div>
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*Full on life of supporting my very lively three. </div>
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*Day dreams of a fibre filled Autumn.<br />
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Jo Windmillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09172664001268350281noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4393499157142277186.post-59717383702167056352015-03-07T21:00:00.004+11:002015-03-09T15:10:35.139+11:00AutumnI'm not going to talk about the fact I have neglected my blog. I'll just break the drought.<br />
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knitting has been slow for a while, but a fox is in the making: pattern is <a href="http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/sophisticated-mr-fox">Sophisticated Mr Fox</a></div>
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The cooler weather is on it's way and I turn my mind to woolly things, knitting, spinning, cosy nights creating. I even read a book which whet my appetite for the cool inner creative evening: <a href="http://hannahkentauthor.com/books/">Burial Rites </a>by Australian writer Hannah Kent. set in Iceland in 1829. Wonderful read, and the best part was being immersed in the domestic world of this time and place. scenes of knitting, mending, even gutting animals was so goooood!<br />
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I loved it so much I was grieved to finish, so I used a gift voucher which had been sitting around since last year (from my choir of seven years I finished up with) to purchase some fluffy clogs, so I could feel I was still in Iceland (there was no mention of clogs in the book I might mention, but even wearing Swedish shoes was close enough).<br />
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my girls have been keeping me very busy as their "mum-ager" of <a href="http://www.charmoffinchesband.com/">Charm of Finches</a> since mid last year. There were <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ecdtgr236ME">videos</a>, paper mache boats, shows upon shows and vintage dresses. We spent a lot of the summer going to Folk Festivals so they could perform. It meant seeing and meeting many wonderful musicians and having adventures. And it continues. as does school, driving kids around town, juggling my work....<br />
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I took over directing a community choir last year, and I love them so much. they are there for the joy of each other and singing together. We have a ball! half of them showed up for a community event to perform some songs, and they fearlessly and joyfully sang their hearts ourt and filled the room with the most heavenly atmosphere. that's me at the front introducing a song.<br />
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joining the yarn along with Ginny <a href="http://www.gsheller.com/2015/03/yarn-along-217.html">here</a>.Jo Windmillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09172664001268350281noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4393499157142277186.post-14952902549790942002014-10-22T17:03:00.001+11:002014-10-22T18:06:21.344+11:00Meet Ellen of Shadow FeetI have a new friend! We met over two intensive days of rehearsing for a big extravaganza fashion-y theatre-y thing, and my job was kinda to make her laugh because the director said she hired her for her smile! I have to agree, <a href="http://www.ellensorensen.com/">Ellen Sørensen</a> lights up the room when she smiles.<br />
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Now, Ellen does something stunning. She cuts paper very intricately. She makes layers! She lights her pictures from behind, sometimes they are in a box with a peep hole! All this is exciting enough! Then Ellen tells me she loves telling stories in this way and, well...we got on a roll about storytelling...more on that later!<br />
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It kinda began for her in her second year in Art school back in her hometown of Auckland. But not really! You see, Ellen grew up with her mum and dad, big sister and grandfather all encouraging her to tell stories! And they told her their made up ones. Her grandfather (Danish born) and her mother would spend their time embroidering, and this instilled in young Ellen a sense of beauty and taking time to make something, the handmade, and how normal and very human it is to tell stories. Team that with living in some very beautiful seaside, forest-y places near Auckland (did you know there are NO SNAKES in New Zealand; not one ), which Ellen wandered through, and you have the makings of a richly imaginative child with a deep connection to nature.<br />
I think now is a good time to show you what Ellen has been up to!! (it's 8 minutes)<br />
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Now as you can see, Ellen is also a musician! That's really a bit unfair, I hear you say, for one person to have such a concentration of talent. Ellen started tinkering freely on the piano when she was 6 years old, and began lessons at 7, doing piano exams, becoming quite accomplished by the sounds of it. She went to art school when she finished school, moving into urban Auckland to live an old dentist surgery.<br />
Last year (2013) Ellen moved to Melbourne, looking to connect with other artists and to feel less isolated. She's already had a solo exhibition of her paper cuts entitled ""A Place To Call One's Own" at the Melbourne City Library. The works were placed in little nooks and backlit with little lamps. Damn! I missed it!<br />
Only yesterday I heard Ellen's song, "Big Bear" played on 3PBS on the show <a href="http://pbsfm.org.au/homebrew">Homebrew</a>. <br />
I tell Ellen she really has landed on her feet, as we sit in a cute Thornbury backstreet cafe.<br />
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Ellen explains she now belongs to a collective of musicians called <a href="http://www.airpunchmusic.com/">Air Punch Collective</a> , who have a novel song club idea going and are who are putting on a show soon. The show concept is interesting: it's called "mixed doubles" and everyone pairs up and collaborates on each other's songs. She gave me a listen on her phone of a recording she'd made at the rehearsal with her "doubles" partner David Carlin . It sounds sweet! In fact, Ellen's harmonies are very striking on her song Big Bear. I asked her did she sing all the harmonies? Yes. They sound free, and intuitive, and in fact, the recording sounds like a big party! Just loose enough to have energy, intimate enough to draw you in. And the story: Ellen's own grim fairytale. I ask her which fairytales she loved as a kid: Hansel and Gretel and she had a Danish copy of The Little Mermaid by Hans Christian Anderson. Unsanitised. The mermaid has to cut her own tail off. We start ranting about how great real fairytales are! How children need the dark, they need those archetypes intact. If we make fairytales nice and polite and safe we are robbing children of the images we as humans need in life to access our own stories and our own shadow self.<br />
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And telling her stories through fairytale imagery and leaving space for others to relate with their own stories is what Ellen likes.<br />
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I ask Ellen about her moniker "Shadow Feet".<br />
"It has to do with the retrospective way I write my music: I had this image of a character wandering back through time being followed by it's shadow and memories of places and experiences that I've had forming my present, and that's how I felt about my self when I wrote them, being informed by my shadows." I love that!<br />
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Thank you Ellen for a lovely chat!<br />
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<br />Jo Windmillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09172664001268350281noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4393499157142277186.post-12886210033933838202014-10-02T20:49:00.003+10:002014-10-02T21:18:17.579+10:00when the brain goes foggy...knit.....After spending the day reluctantly trying to deal with bureaucracy so I can continue to moonlight as a casual relief teacher occasionally, my mind feels particularly clouded. Ughh!<br />
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This kind of head space calls for some knitting: curative occupational therapy for sure! I'm almost finished my<a href="http://ravel.me/fernyfrond/eztv7"> Agnes </a>in the most divine silver grey Drops Eskimo. I decided to make the ribbing extra long, starting higher; and a small child I met on the weekend suggested I do extra long arms and put in thumb holes. I rather like that idea!<br />
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It's been school holidays here, and the girls have had a well earned break from their busy life as full time school girls and busy musos! We spent the weekend in a mountain range with many wonderful folk musicians, doing workshops. One lovely man recorded birdsong and a snippet of Mabel practicing her song. Here it is (a few minutes in):
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And here is an amazing film which my three thespian children made yesterday as a birthday present for their dad!!! Enjoy!! Here is the You Tube <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8cbiKszyHBI">link</a> if you prefer to view larger.<br />
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Jo Windmillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09172664001268350281noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4393499157142277186.post-6774028455559427052014-09-14T16:01:00.002+10:002014-09-15T10:24:05.071+10:00a simple knitting post, well , almostKnitting up a last minute Melbourne Winter turning slowly into Melbourne Spring thick warm Agnes for myself.<br />
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And my recent foray onto the Catwalk: <a href="http://www.slv.vic.gov.au/event/liberty-of-the-press">Liberty of the Press</a>! A collection of amazing outfits designed by <a href="http://nmbq.net/">a local couple</a> who screen print (and still cut out their images by hand), based on the incredible Press dress of 1866 designed by one Mrs Mailda Butters! Such a lot of fun!! I look a lot like the Bride of Frankenstein: the middle years, yes!<br />
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<br />Jo Windmillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09172664001268350281noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4393499157142277186.post-13949781296618016692014-08-09T08:38:00.001+10:002014-08-09T08:39:03.268+10:00post from a "mumager"I have neglected my blog, as I have neglected my knitting, spinning and everything else to do with my fibre passions! But for a good cause I believe, and not for to much longer.<br />
I have become what somebody described a few days ago as a "mumager". Meaning I have been facilitating my two talented singing daughters and their music project <a href="http://www.charmoffinchesband.com/">Charm of Finches</a>.<br />
A beautiful delicate project, involving much love, trust, enthusiasm and support from many people, friends and strangers!<br />
Last November Mabel decided she wanted 2014 to be the year she recorded her music. It coincided with her being given her Year 8 project to consider over the Christmas holidays, in which time we enlisted the help of a lovely new friend who offered to record the girls. From a few casual home recordings in the hills burnt onto a few blank CDs for friends with hand drawn covers, the project grew, and after an astounding<a href="http://www.pozible.com/project/180716"> Pozible</a> crowd funding campaign involving many hours of planning, recording, filming, listening, photographing, performing, sewing and stitching, the project is almost coming to it's conclusion with the official launch in two week. It's been huge and fun, wholly creative and exciting!<br />
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And in two weeks, the girls will play a concert to launch this little EP with six beautiful heartful songs into the world. In actual fact, the music has already begun its own life in the universe, already playing in lounge rooms and kitchens and cars all around the world. I love that idea the most. Whether you are writing a book, making a film, painting a picture or recording music or some other creation, once that little piece of you has burst out of its egg, it will have adventures you will never dream of, and many times, never even know of!<br />
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and the music: you can listen <a href="http://charmoffinches.bandcamp.com/releases">here</a>!<br />
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I'm proud, I'm excited, I'm amazed, I'm in awe of my girls, I'm grateful for all the wonderful people in my girls' life who made this project a success. I'm a wee bit tired right now, and I must now go and sew some bento bags and post them off to the last Pozible supporters patiently waiting for their CD!<br />
<br />Jo Windmillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09172664001268350281noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4393499157142277186.post-8196700696335378452014-06-26T12:48:00.002+10:002014-06-27T13:29:39.924+10:00holiday!<div style="text-align: center;">
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we are in Darwin with family, packing the camping gear for a week in Kakadu National Park. Looking forward to reconnecting with the spirit of that country and soaking away the past few months extreme busy city life within the hot healing springs bubbling out from the rocks....<br />
feels so good to be knitting....love this colour yarn, fjord. I bought the yarn purely for the delicious soft peacock blue! (joining the yarn along with <a href="http://www.gsheller.com/2014/06/yarn-along-183.html">ginny</a>)<br />
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Here's their first beautiful song on bandcamp: <a href="http://charmoffinches.bandcamp.com/releases">Girl In A Lighthouse</a>Jo Windmillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09172664001268350281noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4393499157142277186.post-81277920831522936202014-06-22T15:22:00.001+10:002014-06-23T08:28:46.800+10:00the quickest post ever!Midwinter! See the exquisite lanterns my eleven year old and all her mates made!<br />
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and I have been so busy with my dear girls and their <a href="http://www.charmoffinchesband.com/">music</a> I have scarcely had a chance to knit!! But in the park I sat and took up the second sock of the pair I started three years ago!! Yes, three.<br />
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<br />Jo Windmillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09172664001268350281noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4393499157142277186.post-20725014963476106692014-06-04T17:21:00.000+10:002014-06-04T17:44:30.010+10:00birthday post::today is my birthday.<br />
I really wanted to cast off the jumper/sweater I have been knitting for my big girl before my birthday arrived. I cast on in February! It's finally off the needles and she wore it to school this morning happily! The "misti alpaca" is divine and squishy and warm and an amazing rich toasty brown. I added length by picking up stitches with a pale grey silk/merino/angora for a rib, though it's very hard to see in the photo.<br />
<a href="http://quinceandco.com/store/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=2_5&products_id=11">Annabel Sweater</a> by Carrie Bostick Hoge<br />
Ravelry notes<a href="http://ravel.me/fernyfrond/mel0"> here</a>.<br />
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::the reason I was so keen to cast off the jumper was that I really wanted to cast on a new project with my new wool, some divine Shibui Cima in the fjord colour which I bought from our local; yarn store (LYS) just for the colour!!! yep. I am planning a <a href="http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/woodland-shawl">Woodland Shawl</a> after a glorious coffee date with my dear friend oggling together over my knitting patterns, which hilariously someone mistook for my PhD!! I have more patterns from Ravery than I could possibly complete in three lifetimes! I quite like the sound of Doctor of Knitting, don't you?<br />
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:: my birthday table which greeted me this morning with my present: a Tibetan singing bowl! It's divine, literally, and sings most mysteriously and enlivingly a perfect mellow C sharp!<br />
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::of course I treated myself: to a membership to the Australian greens, because they speak for me and are incredible and I want my children to have a real woodland to walk through with their children; and, a subscription to <a href="http://www.pompommag.com/">pom pom quarterly</a>...what a great mag! not just eye candy, oh what eye candy! great interesting inspiring articles! what's not to love!<br />
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::my life has been rather dominated by my role as unofficial band manager for my dear talented <a href="http://www.charmoffinchesband.com/">singing birds</a>. It's all been happening, with their crowdfunding campaign being a stunning success, their recording done and dusted, and the artwork for their EP being created by a <a href="http://www.belindasuzette.com/">beautiful and generous local artist </a>this week! It's all very exciting and inspiring, and sometimes time consuming. So my knitting has been on the back burner.<br />
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connecting with Ginny for her <a href="http://www.gsheller.com/2014/05/yarn-along-179.html">Yarn Along </a><br />
<br />Jo Windmillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09172664001268350281noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4393499157142277186.post-83548772286901027162014-04-26T15:44:00.001+10:002014-04-26T17:12:48.970+10:00life.pacifism.needlesI watched a play reading last night as a conscious effort to find my own resonance for what is regarded as a huge deal in Australia: Anzac Day. We have a public holiday and people get up before dawn to go into the War Memorial in droves to remember the soldiers, raise/lower the flag etc. While I have much much empathy for the soldiers who have returned from the horror of war and have to somehow continue their lives, I struggle with the air of nationalism, glory and heroism war and soldiering. Like most of humanity, I feel so averse to the idea of governments sending men to slaughter each other in fields and forests. I am newly horrified this week by a photo of our irrefutably <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/apr/24/theres-zero-public-demand-for-fighter-planes-but-well-spend-12bn-anyway">unhinged prime minister</a> sitting up in a war plane costing several billion dollars grinning like a boy with a new toy.<br />
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Well, last night I went to a <a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/278692262298414/?ref=22">play reading</a> my friend <a href="http://featinspace.com/about/mark-tregonning/">Mark</a> invited me to. It was "War Hero" written by <a href="http://www.playmarket.org.nz/playwrights/michael-galvin">Michael Galvin</a>, a New Zealand actor and playwright. The play is about <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archibald_Baxter">Archibald Baxter</a>, who in 1916 was a pacifist conscientious objector and was tortured and punished terribly for it. I loved the experience of sitting there in the theatre with the actors all sitting in chairs reading this beautiful, funny, moving story. The experience was akin to how I remember listening to radio plays and story records as a kid. I watched the actors with fascination, but part of me could see every scene as well.<br />
At the end, I felt so heartened that there are people telling the story of non-violent resistance to sanctioned murder. I look forward to spending the next Anzac day in a similar way, perhaps even watching the full production or listening to it as a radio play.<br />
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I have been knitting up a storm of little leaf bookmarks for the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/creatingawelcome">Creating a Welcome</a> (blog <a href="http://creatingawelcome.blogspot.com.au/">here</a>) market at Chalice Uniting Church, Northcote. It's so lovely to have something tiny and portable to knit wherever I find a spare moment. Simply an i-cord with leaf pattern from <a href="http://www.lionbrand.com/faq/502.html">here</a>.<br />
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We also frolicked in a forest filming their lovely campaign video. It was so fun and free and beautiful.<br />
Then the girls played a small concert in my friend's lovely old 1862 church which is now his home.<br />
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::looking forward to the school holidays and sleep.Jo Windmillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09172664001268350281noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4393499157142277186.post-73778481364944997332014-03-21T14:38:00.001+11:002014-03-21T14:40:51.544+11:00dear cedarThe excitement of the week involved playing a wee morning <a href="http://www.ceres.org.au/shop/marketandshop.html">veggie market gig</a> on Wednesday morning with some lovely friends. we ladies call ourselves <a href="http://kirtimills.wix.com/dearcedar">"Dear Cedar"</a> and have been lucky to have various beautiful fiddlers join us. This Wednesday we were joined by an old mate of mine, Steph, and my didn't he add a special deliciousness to the morning.<br />
We met a gentleman, Peter, who was kind enough to record a song and take lots of photos. We also had a television crew stumble into the veggie market and upon us, and they filmed us too.<br />
My favourite part of the day was when two tiny girls decided to dance to our songs, and one wee dot was in particular very taken by Steph and his fiddle music, and danced softly and attentively just under his nose, her eyes not leaving the fiddle for a moment! ah, the power of music, the great communicator between souls.<br />
The song in the video, "I wish my baby was born" is one of my favourites. It is found in the movie "Cold Mountain" (the director Anthony Minghella wrote extra lyrics, according to the CD sleeve notes), though of course the song is a traditional folk song from the Appalachians, no doubt with roots in English folk music. Like many of these songs, there are numerous songs with variations on these lyrics or melodies floating about. It's a melancholy and fragile song, yet so beautiful and plaintive.<br />
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it's a very easy knit (took 2 days of occasional knitting): <a href="http://www.churchmouseyarns.com/products/shoulder-cozy-pattern">Shoulder Cozy</a> by Churchmouse Yarns <br />
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my first, freshly dyed-up hand spun skeins! gloriously nubbly and unintentionally thick and thin, which I'm told is quite the fashion. I used some l<a href="http://kraftkolour.com.au/Landscapes_Dyes.php">andscape dye</a> shades fern and chamomile. First time dyeing wool too, and oh sooo much fun!<br />
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my knitting::the <a href="http://quinceandco.com/store/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=2_5&products_id=11">annabel pullover</a> in misti alpaca tonos worsted (leatherly), almost done.<br />
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I found this book at an op shop. Pearl S Buck's <a href="http://www.amazon.com/The-Big-Wave-Pearl-Buck/dp/0064401715">The Big Wave</a>. As soon as I saw it, I was struck by what I can only call a memory-feeling or feeling-memory. I can't remember what age I was, but I remember reading this book and it fascinating, or maybe, haunting me. That's all I remember, nothing about the story itself, but when I saw it I had a faint rush of awe mixed with fear, and fascination.<br />
It now waits for me...it's kinda spooky.<br />
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listening to::incredible Australian indie folk talent:the <a href="http://www.themaetrio.com/">mae trio</a>: <a href="http://oneuptwodown.bandcamp.com/">one up two down</a>: <a href="http://dominiforster.bandcamp.com/">domini forster</a></div>
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read'n'::<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Cold-Mountain-Charles-Frazier/dp/0802142842">Cold Mountain</a> by Charles Frazier::so tasty, but why oh why did i watch the movie first...nicole or jude ever present on each page...<br />
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lov'n'::the sunflower forest planted by my beloved and now making us all happy outside and in.<br />
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knitt'n':: finished <a href="http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/mama-vertebrae">Mama Vertebrae</a> in <a href="http://www.ravelry.com/yarns/library/cleckheaton-merino-angora-silk-8ply">cleckheaton merino angora silk 8ply</a>::love::open front but covers the kidneys::ravelled <a href="http://ravel.me/fernyfrond/ftp97">here</a><br />
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yarn'n' along:: with <a href="http://www.gsheller.com/category/yarn-along">ginny</a>Jo Windmillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09172664001268350281noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4393499157142277186.post-18105753276046478252014-02-01T16:57:00.002+11:002014-02-01T17:58:26.412+11:00in a spin...<br />
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I never thought I would go there. you know, bother learning to spin. But one day I spent a day as a relief teacher in Steiner Class 4, and the children had drop spindles made from cds and dowel and a screw in hook from the hardware store, and were spinning like demons! Some were even knitting fair isle scarves with their spun yarn! Finally I got the connection. I felt the need this year to connect another part of the chain which links those lovely smelling sheep to my knitting!<br />
I enrolled in a <a href="http://handweaversandspinnersguildofvictoria.org.au/">spinning course</a>. Today was the first day. Oh my goodness, I was so excited. I have always looked at spinning wheels with a mix of awe and confusion. Well, now, they are demystified, and after three hours I have the rudimentary skills to spin on a wheel! My goodness the brain does hurt making those new neural pathways, but somehow it's coming together.<br />
I'm not sure this will take over the knitting passion, but it kinda feels good to know if for some reason all the knitting mills in the world closed, I could still make yarn!<br />
<br />Jo Windmillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09172664001268350281noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4393499157142277186.post-20425231706535902952013-12-29T12:28:00.001+11:002013-12-30T09:00:15.458+11:00in between timedays of drifting, children reading and making up songs, playing with Christmas presents, me, dreaming into new knitting books, catching up on stuff around the house, forgetting what day it is...wondering how on earth we will ever eat all the shortbread and chocolates we brought home from Christmas gatherings....doing nothing much...those in between summer days<br />
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These pencil rolls were so quick to whip up, possibly because I was a little slap dash and didn't do any measuring! The girls absolutely love them. I checked out a few tutorials online for ideas by googling "pencil roll tutorials". The pencils are Lyra Giants, our all time favourite pencils for drawing. There's an extra layer of flannelette in the middle to make them padded and the ties are wool <a href="http://www.parentingfuneveryday.com/make/fun-basics/how-to-make-a-twistie-rope-out-of-wool/">"twisties"</a>.<br />
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I must admit I have been lagging behind in the Yule cheer, personally, even though I love Christmas. However, today, even if mostly for the sake of my dear wee excited full-of-wonderment 3 year old, a surge of Christmas enthusiasm swept over me. Or should I say, I dug a little deeper to attempt to invoke enthusiasm by simply partaking in Christmas preparations.<br />
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Star making, the intoxicating smell of a freshly cut Christmas Tree, some bling and lights and a bit of <a href="http://music.sufjan.com/album/songs-for-christmas">Sufjan Stevens</a> carols and I'm feeling a lot more in the mood for the season! Hooray! Thanks to my three ever willing Christmas elves.<br />
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And on the knitting front: I've started a cardi for moi. It's called <a href="http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/mama-vertebrae">Mama Vertebrae</a>, a little frontless number for summer. I'm using a surprisingly delightful <a href="http://wondoflex.com.au/Products/282/merino-angora-silk">yarn</a> (sadly being discontinued) by Cleckheaton containing angora, silk and merino.<br />
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Life seems to be about a swinging from rushing to pausing (or gasping?).<br />
Something must be done about this periodic quickening... this November malaise...knitting seemed the antidote...but it's being pushed out by the packed agenda of a family of five.<br />
That said: I finally finished my "hitch"jumper/sweater! hooray for that! (ravelled <a href="http://ravel.me/fernyfrond/36qzj">here</a>)<br />
It feels good to finish something, and it's a stunner in the <a href="http://www.loveknitting.com/rowan-felted-tweed-dk">Rowan Felted Tweed</a>.<br />
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and while I dither about between projects, I have some finishing of socks underway...<br />
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oh, and on a hot afternoon, I picked up the girls after school and we all five, yes the whole family, drove in peak hour traffic across town to the bay for a first of the season swim and a fish'n'chip dinner on the beach!! worth the fumes, I can tell ya!<br />
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and just because, I'm joining the <a href="http://www.gsheller.com/2013/11/yarn-along-152.html">Yarn Along</a> with Ginny, though I haven't read much at all except of course, bedtime stories! The favourite is <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Charleys-First-Night-Amy-Hest/dp/0763640557">"Charley's First Night"</a> by Amy Hest and illustrated by Helen Oxenbury (I love her work); about a child and a new puppy.<br />
<br />Jo Windmillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09172664001268350281noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4393499157142277186.post-23584558053980333342013-10-03T11:01:00.001+10:002013-10-03T12:43:34.859+10:00Spring nature fix and a yarn bombing party!went to family music camp:<br />
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the gumboots say it all...ready for wet weather and plenty of knitting...<br />
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my chickens made new friends and jammed in the forest.<br />
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Taught a friend to knit!<br />
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climbed a mountain,<br />
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and explored the rocks and caves.<br />
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and then back for my 11 year old's birthday bash complete with a lesson in granny squares and bike bombing (just a bit!)Jo Windmillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09172664001268350281noreply@blogger.com2