This
episode is sponsored by my
Longaberger Home Business and Quince& Co. I am also a Craftsy Affiliate.
Quince
& Co Piper
is our pretty little southern bird. We sourced the softest super fine kid
mohair we could find from a Texas herd of angora goats and blended it with
super fine Texas merino to make a lighter-than-air, almost lace weight
single-ply yarn. Piper has a pretty halo and a subtle sheen, thanks to the
long, silky fibers of the mohair. Knit it on a larger needle if you want. It
fills in nicely. Great in sweaters, hats, and, of course, shawls. Find Piper
and the other Quince fibers at www.quinceandco.com.
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can also find me here:
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Events
Stitches
Midwest 2014
Nature
Notes
Our
Barred Owl is making more frequent stops here.
I had two very good photo opportunities this week and will share some of
those photos on the blog. Last night we
heard a Screech Owl very close to the house.
That is more unusual here although we heard them a lot in town.
Varmits. I love the word Varmit. Raccoons.
Oh my. We often have two or 3
under the feeders grazing in the evening. They fight and hiss. I read in the June 2014 issue of Watching
Backyard Birds (Companion to Backyard Bird Digest) Top 10 Tips for Dealing with
Raccoons by Julie Zickafoose and Bill Thompson III. If you feed birds you attract other animals
as well.
Take in feeders at night. We do take in hummingbird feeder at night
because the racs will trash it.
Female raccoons are lactating in June
so they are very hungry and will do just about anything to get more food. Don’t cross them. They can be vicious.
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| One of the benefits of living on the prairie. Sunsets. This photo is not enhanced. |
The sun, with all those planets revolving around it and
dependent on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as if it had nothing else in
the universe to do.
Needle Notes
Beyond
Puerperium by Kelly Brooker. This
time the intarsia version.
First time in fingering weight and first time with
intarsia border.
Button issue...buttons are perfect except the holes
are quite small. I’m not sure I can sew them on properly.
The
Blethering Room
Tornado update:
Last week Chicago
Bears came to town to help clean up.
Brain Reveal:
Marilyn
vos Savant from her column:
Irene Hurst
of Dallas writes:
I associate days of the week,
numbers, and names with colors. For example, Saturday is brown, five is red,
and Sharon is pink. I’ve always done this; it’s normal for me. But I’ve never
told anyone about it except my husband, who’s never heard of such a thing. Is
there a word for it?
Marilyn responds:
The term is synesthesia, and
you have the most common form—colored letters and numbers, etc. Not that the trait is common!
Studies have found an incidence of about one person in 2,000, with several
times as many females as males. Other mixing of senses (sounds, smells, and
more) also occurs, but these types are extremely rare. (Be thankful that five
is just red—not red, smelly, and sounding like a crow.) Rest assured that
people with synesthesia are otherwise perfectly normal.
Synesthesia is a neurological phenomenon when one or more senses
overlap
Billy Joel,
Duke Ellington, and Stevie Wonder oh and Lady Gaga all have/had synesthesia. Maybe Vincent Van Gogh
Scientific
American What is Synesthesia?
Some people have
temporal/spatial synesthesia, where time, weeks, months, etc have a pattern or
location around the person. Described as looking at a map.
Time/spatial
synesthesia is more rare.
For me, a
time/spatial synesthete, time and numbers including months of the year, days of
the week, all numbers, hours of the day are in a pattern or map. Each map is individual so I don’t mix up
months and days of the week. If you say
a number to me I see it on a map in relation to all other numbers. It gets hazy
after 1,000.
Casting
on: I think I count in my head although
I don’t believe this is related to synthesia.
Are you a
synesthete too?
In
The Pipeline
Reading
Lunch
in Paris: a love story with recipes by Elizabeth Bard
Knitting
Piper by quince & Co
Pam Allen’s
Blog post about Angora goats in Texas
Tubularity by
Martina Behm
Hitofude
Cardigan by Hiroko Fukatsu
Foolproof by
Louise Zass-Bangham
Nymphalidea by
Melinda VerMeer
Tripartite by
Stephen West
Sarapomegranate
of Yarns at Yin Hoo
In
The Piping Circle
Good Neighbor Days in Washington
Tonight playing at a dedication in Morton IL
I met Molly at the Highland Games in Wauwatosa.
We won 1st place in Grade 5! Here I am with my buddy, Kevin, whose voice you hear at the beginning of each episode of Knitting Pipeline.
Next competition is June 21 in Itasca IL ChicagoGames.
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| One more Prairie Sunset photo |
Have a great week, haste ye back, and hold your
knitting close.
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