Textile Project update
Follow your arrow shawl
The Textile Projects are continuing to amuse us – a winter shawl is coming along… I am doing a knit-along mystery pattern from Isolde on Ravelry – you get an option of two patterns once a week, so the result at the end depends on which of the patterns you choose. I am going for the simplest patterns, and am very grateful that I have help from the genius knitting daughter of the family. Since the Hittys noticed that it is not going to be a Hitty shawl they have been a bit disgruntled, but Rose helpfully hands me the stitch markers (with only a tiny humph).
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Cherry Blossom
Sweet Treat
Though it is a tad early for the botanical kind of cherry blossom, Carline got a sweet treat from the Hittys favourite photographer…
February Beach Gallery
Boardwalk
A wet beginning to February! Agathe and Opal headed down to the beach to see if anything interesting was going on.
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The Tales of Hoffmann
Constance Plays Olympia
Constance really enjoyed going to the MET’s Live in HD presentation of the Tales of Hoffman by Offenbach. The story is a bizzare fictional account of the several great (but unsuccessful) love affairs of the real poet E. T. A.Hoffman who died in 1822. One of his Operatic inamoratas was a mechanical doll called Olympia. Constance approves in principle, after all she knows several people who feel very fond of dolls, even without wearing magic glasses! She also feels that to be beloved by a cutie like Vittorio Grigolo would be no hardship.
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More January Gardening
Green and pink
Opal and Agathe think that if January donated a couple of days to February, the winter would seem shorter. They are anticipating Spring by bringing a little bit of the garden indoors,
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