Kate, the blogger that cheers my day up most, is poorly - please send her your 'get well soon' wishes with me...I do miss her blog posts: a rare and heady mix of Scotland, yarn, ale and fashion (all my most favourite things) but I'm sure she'll be blogging again shortly, she sounds like the steely sort!
In the meantime, I am frogging some inherited yarn and getting it ready so that I can cast on the much-awaited knit on my list: Kate's Owl jumper pattern (pic from Ravelry on the left).
Being a palaeontologist in a previous life, evolutionary biology has always intrigued me...and last year I managed to find an exhibition that combined Darwin with knitting....you can imagine my delight!
I saw it in Oxford with friends...it was exquistely put together and the details was incredible! My only gripe was that the expo was covered in an awning with a rope over the entrance, meaning that you couldn't get up-close and the lighting was terrible. The outcome was that you couldn't really see it very well - I felt the efforts of the creators were quite wasted :(
You can see some of the creatures here.
(2009 saw the bicentenary of Darwin's birth, and the 150th anniversary of the publication of his seminal work 'On the origin of Species'. Sadly, I'm not sure Darwin's Leftovers is still showing in 2010....does anyone know?)
The lovely Eirlys took me to a Jazz event at the American Museum in Britain a little while back and we popped into the American Beauty exhibition...
It was wonderful stuff - and we drooled over this quilt for ages. Laura Beresford, the curator, joined us - she told us that each picture was drawn by a school child and then (an adult presumably) stitched over it. I don't think we know the precise year of its creation - but the civil war themes of some of the pictures (heartbreakingly) date it around then.
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Look out for the Museum's upcoming quilt exhibition 'Classic American Quilts' coming in March 2010!
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