Earlier this year, I made a shawl. Regrettably, I forgot to take pictures. I used Kodama by Andrea Jurgrau; the yarn was a lovely, now-discontinued heathered oatmeal, and the beads were silver-lined russet. It was a beauty (of course, I can get away with saying this because there are no pictures to verify it…) I …
November-December Forecast
For it was the beginning of what the papers call the Holiday Rush. London and its young, like Xenophon’s Ten Thousand, were heading for the sea. — P. G. Wodehouse, Hot Water It’s that time again—all my local stores are festooned in tinsel, string lights, and plastic Christmas trees, some more obviously fake than others …