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Sheep nibbles

Shoulder Problems

I've been "sketching" out a sweater pattern in some Red Heart black acrylic for too long. I think I started this sweater a few years ago and I'm still trying to figure out the sleeve. Normally a gusset in the armpit would be added but there won't be a tapered sleeve, it'll have a 3/4 full sleeve in a moss stitch pattern. Just can't figure out how to shape it. The sleeve will be taken apart and I'll try short rows along the cable on the top ridge. . .

Vintage Friends

I live in a building with more residents than my entire hometown. When I moved in almost ten years ago I was taken aback by how chatty everyone is, I've never entered the elevator without someone greeting me kindly and on the short ride we chat casually about the weather. It is Chicago after all and the old saying goes "if you don't like the weather, just wait until the afternoon."
Weather is what brought up a discussion on what to wear in Chicago's ever-changing climate. I've been known to grumble about not being "put together" on many occasions. Part weather. Part budget.
My neighbor, Wini, mentioned that she stopped dressing up as she got older but still had many of her more "formal" gear. I mentioned I wore vintage dresses in college and had a hard time finding the longer, formal gloves that went with a 3/4 sleeve. Wini said she had LOTS, some even handed down from her mother and other female relatives. A day or two later the doorman called me to tell me I had a package. Wini had left a box of about two dozen vintage gloves at the front desk for me. The photo above shows her kind gift.

Bureks I have loved

I've never met a burek I didn't like.
A last-minute invite to a Local Beet staff meeting at Deta's Cafe in Rogers Park was more than welcome. It came after I finally posted a Farmer's Almanac update to their site, which I had put on hold after last summer's devastating tomato blight (which wiped out my entire crop as well as any residual energy I had left).
My late arrival didn't stop Deta from going back to the kitchen to get me a warm bowl of chicken soup before I dug into the spinach-filled burek (a Balkan-style savory pastry) and beef goulash. I don't know if the staff mentioned my Balkan heritage before I got there but she quickly picked up on it and Deta and I were chatting in Serbo-Croatian before too long. You have no idea how excited I am to be invited to visit her kitchen to learn how to make the hand-stretched dough used to make burek and Deta seemed a little thrilled to meet a farmer who grows a lot of peppers and eggplants. I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship.

Flickr Finds

Spun and Crocheted audio tape Cell Phone cover
Originally uploaded by dumpsterdiversanonymous

My friend Adamandia told me about seeing work made with hand-spun audio-cassette tape. At first I thought "scratchy" then I saw this link she sent me.
Lovely.
Want.

pink hyacinths

pink hyacinths
Originally uploaded by Verica