Knitting, cooking and other enthusiasms
Posted in Knitting, Life, woodworking on Feb 22nd, 2010
Mother Nature stomped all over our traces of spring this weekend, leaving behind five inches of snow and ice. I started the morning shoveling snow, not for the first time this winter. Dare I hope it will be the last?
Not.
I went to a woodworking show with Jack this weekend. Small by comparison to events [...]
Posted in Spinning, woodworking on Jul 13th, 2009
When last we visited, our intrepid woodworker was getting ready to glue up the end piece assembly on our porch rocker. The stiles, cross brace and arm rest were ready to be assembled and attached to the rocker base.
In the course of construction Jack decided to turn the tenons into wedge tenons. This involves making [...]
Posted in woodworking on May 27th, 2009
Back in March I mentioned that Jack was planning to build a porch rocker for our deck as his next big project. To give you a break from peony and cat pictures, I thought you might like to see some of the construction process. (We got the plans from this website.
I’m not a woodworker but [...]
a Box made of Bubinga wood that Jack made for me for Christmas. The top is cherry (pretty sure) and is a shade lighter, which I think is attractive. It’s about 4″ x 4″ x 8″, just the right size to hold small knitting tools. Unfortunately, if I put it on the coffee table in [...]
Did you miss me? I snuck in a trip to Texas when you weren’t looking. We had a new dollhouse to deliver to the granddaughters so we loaded up the van and headed south. We arrived in time for their birthday and spent a great weekend going to a soccer game, pool party and dinner [...]
