Also this summer, I took my younger sun to Hopkinsville with a friend and her son to view the total eclipse. This was just after returning from taking my elder son to his first year of university (sob!), so the timing couldn't have been better. The four of us packed up and headed to Hopkinsville, Kentucky to the epicenter of the total eclipse of the sun.
Amazing.
Hopefully this isn't a once-in-a-lifetime event! The horizon turned pink and the quality of light around us was ethereal. The planets shone like stars and the corona around the sun was fantastic.
As Hopkinsville was the epicenter of the eclipse, the eclipse lasted longer there than anywhere else -- 2 minutes, 40 seconds.
Today marks the first day of school in many places across the country, including for my niece and also for Michigan where I grew up. Schools in our area have been in session for a month. Amazing!
But, since Labor Day marks the end of summer, I'm planning on posting a few things here that I did this summer. Here's the first:
I've had my eye on this pattern for a long time, but no real reason to knit it. Now that I know some one in the Slytherin house of Harry Potter, though, I let my knitting needles fly. Meet House of Slytherin.
The first three pictures above are taken directly above the scarf. You can clearly see that the scarf is just black and green stripes, but that the stripes vary in terms of knit and purl stitches.
The fourth picture is taken from an angle. Now, you can see that the patterning of purls and knits combines to create an raised image, most visible when seen at an angle. This image is the Sign of the Dark Mark.
The recent PieceWork came in the mail. It, too, has one of my projects as well as a companion article in it. (If you click the link above, it will take you to a digital version of the magazine.)
The current July/August PieceWork magazine. My article is inside.
Inside is an article I wrote about the Australian crocheter and designer, Mary Card. I really appreciate her artistry in the many designs she made, and her incredible courage when she moved to new continents, first to the US and then to England during WWII. She was a single woman and moved seeking career advances in the designs and crochet business.
Poppies breakfast curtains
The curtains I designed and crocheted for the project were an amalgamation of two of her designs -- a poppies crochet piece for a hand towel, and the background for another piece.
My thoughts were also with the various centennial anniversaries of WWI -- or the war to end all wars. This is especially poignant since my family visited Flanders Fields just two weeks ago.
In Belgium
I have made two of these curtains, now, and they brighten my breakfast area at home.
This is my first pattern in the Love of Knitting magazine, and I'm so glad to be in it. Love of Knitting is the first knitting magazine I have published in that is carried locally.
The yarn is a beautiful, soft Malabrigo. It's a wonderful, easy pattern to knit for the fall or for a cold office.
