Tag, you're it! Annette got me, so here's my list...1. I've actually been to the place* in the picture.
2. This designer* is one of my favorites, and I've done a needlepoint piece of one of his designs.
3. It is almost impossible to find yarn in this city* although I certainly tried!
4. My first (and so far only) publication in a national magazine was a crossword puzzle in the Disney mag when I was 14.
5. English is not my first language--it's my second. I had to learn to speak it when I started school, and I hated it! (French is my first, Spanish the third.)
6. I went to bilingual schools for 12 years.
7. I learned to crochet when I was 7. I learned to knit when I was 8.
8. My first sweater was hot pink, cabled. I didn't know cables were "too hard."
9. I learned to sew on an industrial machine--my mother made doll clothes at home for a major manufacturer, back when home work was not regulated. My job was cutting the threads to separate the pieces.
10. I think that's probably why I took to "production" methods for piecing quilts, and it's certainly why I was able to make 4, 5, or more of the same little dresses at a time!
There. That wasn't too painful, was it?? Now let's see yours!
*It's the Willow Tea Rooms in Glasgow, Scotland, designed by Charles Rennie Mackintosh
5 comments:
Wow, Marie - what an interesting background. No wonder you're so good knitting and quilting. It's in the genes!
Let's hear it for hot pink cables!
I've been to Rennie's Tea Room, too. :) Isn't Scotland a wonderful place?
Hi!
I believe that the shawl on my blog was from an Italian magazine "Lavori artistici mano e fata" but I don't know which issue. I'll go home and see if I can find it. All I inherited for this shawl was the chart and some notes on graph paper. I'm not sure that I ever had the whole publication.
If I find something, I'll get back to you. Thanks for visiting my blog!
Caroline
Oooohh, that is a great shot! And hot pink cables! Whooohooo! My first sweater was a fuschia, acrylic, fuzzy lace thing....no gauge...thank you very much...that could have fit three of the intended recipiant. It is in a landfill in Australia somewhere.....
I guess that's why I love talking to you, you always have interesting and fun things to say.
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