I came home late after a movie last night. Feeling a need to do sewing - I looked for a radio show to stitch along with and found an Ivor Cutler series - so entranced by his sweet weirdness, I gobbled up 3 episodes and made this skirt.
here's a taste of Ivor:
My niece and nephew have arrived for the weekend, the four-year-old insisted on showing me all her jewels before coming into the house while the eight-year-old went to inspect the house, apparently it mostly meets with his approval except that my bedroom 'could do with a tidy-up'
You end up committing yourself to what you are left with Robert Wyatt
I don’t know what I want; I am inconsistent, non-committal, passive; I like the indefinite, the boundless; I like continual uncertainty. Gerhard Richter
A man should swallow a toad every morning to be certain of not encountering anything more disgusting in the course of the day. Nicholas de Chamfort
The Oral Literature of the American People
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Justin Smith-Ruiu at Romanticon: One of the loveliest documented moments of
the 1966 Newport Folk Festival features Bukka White and Howlin’ Wolf in a
rare ...
Arabic Typography: An Interactive History.
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Vita Nouva has a remarkable interactive introduction to the terrific
experience of rendering Arabic typography and its technical debt: Once upon
a time, a ...
Math Notes
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Multiply 92 by 8, then multiply that product by 8, and so on. List the
products, indenting them successively as shown and continuing indefinitely:
92 736 5...
Listening to Noise
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As decibel levels continue to rise, threatening human existence we turn to
two listening experts for help. George Prochnik and George Foy both
investigat...
Unknown Unknowns. An Introduction to Mysteries
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The show addresses a series of themes including: gravity as “the greatest
designer”, extraterrestrial architecture, deep space mysteries, future body
modif...
Almost never losing
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My whole life is about winning.
I don’t lose often.
I have a great relationship with the Mexican people.
All of the women on *The Apprentice*
flirted w...
Nice skirt ... and done so quickly! I admire sewing skills. What sewing machine do you use?
ReplyDeletePS: I'm guessing from his observation that this is the "Well, pants" nephew.
I have a tiny electric Singer that used to belong to my grandmother. Yes it is the 'pants' nephew and his cookie-making sister
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