We're hoping for better weather this week. It's been a bit too warm (low 30s to low 60s) and all my bulbs and baby trees are going to wake up too soon! They need to sleep for a couple more months. Last year at this time, it was snowing every other day, but last week, we were running around in t-shirts. Oh, woe! My beautiful winter pretending to be spring (though it's really the lack of rain that worries folks around here)! But, maybe by Friday...
Meanwhile, how long's it been since I threw some pine-needle-basket pics up?
I finished one with black wooden beads on Sunday (while watching Dr. Who), but I've been knitting more than coiling, lately. Here are a couple of others, though, that I made late last year (just the bottom view for one of them).
I've been practicing a technique for starting the baskets called "teneriffe". It's a lacy sort of circular design woven on a metal ring. See what you think...
Tomorrow is the Inauguration. I'll be knitting or basketing in front of the tube most of the day (whoopee!), but after that, I'll post the calligraphy and knitting I did last week (during the heat wave)...
