Five days into the new year, and I’m slowly letting some priorities emerge. I’m curious about whether any words or goals or even resolutions might reveal themselves, but so far I’m content to make the shift into 2023 slowly. What about you? Click through to read, and maybe we can compare notes.
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In a fishing town in Lazio, Italy, I was delighted to see signs of another Mender of Textiles . . . in a surprising medium: fishing nets! Click through for my photos of this Practical Random Beauty . . . and my musings on the way this encounter with mending far away from home brings Travel and Domestic Life together.
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Over a lifetime, I’ve learned how to balance a variety of competing interests and activities, so that I maintain skills and continue to enjoy the most important without feeling overloaded. But in retirement as in my former “working life,” that balance and daily or weekly rhythm can get disrupted by certain elements on the calendar. January, for example. . .
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Mice and mending, socks and sweaters: yes, my needles (both knitting and darning) have been steadily busy these past few months. Here are a few finished projects, and some thoughts about sustainability in our fashion and in our fashion-ing (see what I did there?). Warning, though, a surfeit of CUTE happens halfway through this post. . . Oh, and don’t miss the homage to Chanel. . .Yes, it’s the post about knitting that’s got it all! Read on!
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Some of you may remember that I took a class in Sashiko Stitchinga few years ago and then a few months later played around with mending some sweaters using this technique. Since then, I’ve become…
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