girl number twenty: Works in Progress...

Tuesday, 23 February 2010

Works in Progress...

My sock (yes, still the first one :-)

My freezer project happily underway; food for when The Bump arrives (so far we've got curry, spaghetti sauce, cookies, pancakes, soups, and some slices of the amazing toasted walnut and sundried tomato polenta that Mr. S. made on Friday...)

The Bump :-) A little over 2 months to go and all of the sudden, there seems so little time...

4 comments:

Things Hand Made said...: thats a lovely little bump you are grwoing there. You have 2 months to go... wow. Hope it goes well; 5 March 2010 at 15:26
Kitchen Sinks said...: It is so much pretty.....love this bump....and only just with threads.wow...keep it up; 24 March 2010 at 02:34
gallery 802 said...: Good Work..please update it with some new designs..thanks for sharing this information.; 24 March 2010 at 02:36
Secret Admirer said...: I have been too nervous to attempt to knit socks but that pair is just so inspiring they look super snuggley. Good luck getting them on when your bump is bigger.; 7 April 2010 at 22:03

Welcome!

This is my hopefully simpler, make-do, make-more, dirt-under-the-nails life. We've relocated from our little house in the middle of big Toronto to a slightly larger house in the smaller (but equally excellent) city of Hamilton, with many adventures on the way. Feel free to poke around, start a conversation, borrow ideas, and share ideas.

Please note that tutorials are not intended as patterns for commercial use. Also, do not copy content or photographs without my permission, but feel free to contact me if you wish to do so.

Thanks,
Marnie Saskin

*and hence, the name

'Now, I'll try you again. Suppose you were going to carpet a room. Would you use a carpet having a representation of flowers upon it?'

There being a general conviction by this time that 'No, sir!' was always the right answer to this gentleman, the chorus of No was very strong. Only a few feeble stragglers said Yes; among them Sissy Jupe.

'Girl number twenty,' said the gentleman, smiling in the calm strength of knowledge.

Sissy blushed, and stood up.

'So you would carpet your room -- or your husband's room, if you were a grown woman, and had a husband -- with representations of flowers, would you,' said the gentleman. 'Why would you?'

'If you please, sir, I am very fond of flowers,' returned the girl.

'And is that why you would put tables and chairs upon them, and have people walking over them with heavy boots?'

'It wouldn't hurt them, sir. They wouldn't crush and wither if you please, sir. They would be the pictures of what was very pretty and pleasant, and I would fancy --'

'Ay, ay, ay! But you mustn't fancy,' cried the gentleman, quite elated by coming so happily to his point. 'That's it! You are never to fancy.'

'You are not, Cecilia Jupe,' Thomas Gradgrind solemnly repeated, 'to do anything of that kind.'

- from "Hard Times" (chapter two) by Charles Dickens