Putting Two and Two Together
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stapsdoes101thingsTwo I Finished
No. 98: Another row of badges on the camp blanket
Well, I tried to take a photo of the entire row, but I had to stand on the bed to do it, and the result was all wobbly and you couldn't see what the badges were - which, to my mind, takes all the fun out it. This, therefore, is a picture of the bottom right hand corner of the embellished portion of my camp blanket. Do you see Würzburg up there at the top right? That's the last badge I added to the blanket before starting 101 in 1001. Edinburgh, down at the bottom right, is the last one. Going by this picture, it looks as if I added two rows; actually, it was only one and a half.
I cheated a little bit - the lion is a cheat, and Snoopy was my reward to myself for finishing NaNoWriMo in 2008. Mostly, though, they're legitimate.
Even in this modest collection you can see evidence of some of the goals I finished. There are three of the cathedrals from no. 20 (the magenta cross of nails is from Coventry); there's Edinburgh - I'd never been to Scotland before, so that took care of no. 68; there's France (no. 39 - there's a badge for Paris off to the left, as well).
This goal was fun, though occasionally frustrating - you wouldn't believe how many touristy kickshaw shops I went into in Durham, looking for a badge. I don't think I'll put it on the next list, but that's because I suspect that it will happen all by itself, just so long as I make myself go to enough interesting places.
No. 18: Herb Garden
From the very top left: rosemary, sage (two plants, one happier than the other), chervil, mint, oregano (or perhaps marjoram - it never had a label), parsley, dill (very weedy, but the only one I grew from seed), tarragon, lemon verbena, chives, thyme. Also included in the picture are a lot of dead ivy leaves, which drop off the tree above the herb patch quicker than I can pick them up.
Some of these plants came from the Guildford house, where they had been permanently in pots, and were put into the earth pretty much as soon as we moved. Most of those have responded very well - all apart from the rosemary, which received wisdom says is impossible to kill. None the less, I seem to be managing it. Oh well.
Others came from the herb stall at the Guildford summer festival, and a couple more, along with the lavender out the front, from Woking market.
It's not the beautiful Elizabethan knot garden I had in my mind, but it's herbs, and they're growing in my garden, and I cook with them. I don't think I can ask for much more, really.
Two I Didn't
No. 40: get photos printed and create album of university years
This is an easy one, it's a cheap one, and it just didn't get done because I didn't get around to it. (The 101 in 1001 game is intended to facilitate the breeding of round tuits, but it didn't work on this one.) By the time the 1001 days were up I'd had the photos printed (thank you, Frank, for the Boots giftcard!) and bought an album. I'd blu-tacked quite a lot of the photos into the album.
I've now got all the photos I want in the right place, I've stuck most of them down with permanent adhesive dots (and run out of permanent adhesive dots) and begun on the captioning. There really isn't any reason why I now shouldn't get it done well before I start on the next list. I have other album projects in mind for that...
No. 9: finish patchwork quilt
This is one of the great roll of projects begun, continued and... abandoned at Tolksoc. (Let us be honest here. The only person who ever finished much at Tolksoc was![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
jedda, and occasionally me, when I cheated and bought vital bits from the charity shops.) What, you may reasonably ask, has a patchwork quilt got to do with the immortal works of J. R. R. Tolkien? And I am bound to answer, Not much. However, after I'd dressed up as Eowyn for the 2004 party, and Ioreth for the 2005 one, and done my fairy godmother act on various other people's dresses, I'd had about as much of long skirts as I could cope with, so I got out my bag of silks.
Originally it was a collection of remnants from a Suffolk silk mill. Pretty much as soon as I got it I started cutting out diamonds and tacking them to templates. (This was, in fact, even before I went to university, and therefore began well before Tolksoc.) Then I lost interest and abandoned it for a while. In 2005 or 2006 I picked it up again, and that was what I did of a Wednesday evening: evensong, supper, snip and sew.
I think this one would have got finished had it not been for getting married last year. Making two bridesmaids' dresses took a lot of my sewing time, as did other pre-matrimonial tasks. As it was, there are offcuts from my wedding dress (gold) and my bridesmaids' dresses (royal blue) in there. I finished taking the templates out last week. Now all I have to do is put a bottom layer together, get a middle layer, sew the lot together, and quilt.
Not much, then!
No. 98: Another row of badges on the camp blanket
Well, I tried to take a photo of the entire row, but I had to stand on the bed to do it, and the result was all wobbly and you couldn't see what the badges were - which, to my mind, takes all the fun out it. This, therefore, is a picture of the bottom right hand corner of the embellished portion of my camp blanket. Do you see Würzburg up there at the top right? That's the last badge I added to the blanket before starting 101 in 1001. Edinburgh, down at the bottom right, is the last one. Going by this picture, it looks as if I added two rows; actually, it was only one and a half.
I cheated a little bit - the lion is a cheat, and Snoopy was my reward to myself for finishing NaNoWriMo in 2008. Mostly, though, they're legitimate.
Even in this modest collection you can see evidence of some of the goals I finished. There are three of the cathedrals from no. 20 (the magenta cross of nails is from Coventry); there's Edinburgh - I'd never been to Scotland before, so that took care of no. 68; there's France (no. 39 - there's a badge for Paris off to the left, as well).
This goal was fun, though occasionally frustrating - you wouldn't believe how many touristy kickshaw shops I went into in Durham, looking for a badge. I don't think I'll put it on the next list, but that's because I suspect that it will happen all by itself, just so long as I make myself go to enough interesting places.
No. 18: Herb Garden
From the very top left: rosemary, sage (two plants, one happier than the other), chervil, mint, oregano (or perhaps marjoram - it never had a label), parsley, dill (very weedy, but the only one I grew from seed), tarragon, lemon verbena, chives, thyme. Also included in the picture are a lot of dead ivy leaves, which drop off the tree above the herb patch quicker than I can pick them up.
Some of these plants came from the Guildford house, where they had been permanently in pots, and were put into the earth pretty much as soon as we moved. Most of those have responded very well - all apart from the rosemary, which received wisdom says is impossible to kill. None the less, I seem to be managing it. Oh well.
Others came from the herb stall at the Guildford summer festival, and a couple more, along with the lavender out the front, from Woking market.
It's not the beautiful Elizabethan knot garden I had in my mind, but it's herbs, and they're growing in my garden, and I cook with them. I don't think I can ask for much more, really.
Two I Didn't
No. 40: get photos printed and create album of university years
This is an easy one, it's a cheap one, and it just didn't get done because I didn't get around to it. (The 101 in 1001 game is intended to facilitate the breeding of round tuits, but it didn't work on this one.) By the time the 1001 days were up I'd had the photos printed (thank you, Frank, for the Boots giftcard!) and bought an album. I'd blu-tacked quite a lot of the photos into the album.
I've now got all the photos I want in the right place, I've stuck most of them down with permanent adhesive dots (and run out of permanent adhesive dots) and begun on the captioning. There really isn't any reason why I now shouldn't get it done well before I start on the next list. I have other album projects in mind for that...
No. 9: finish patchwork quilt
This is one of the great roll of projects begun, continued and... abandoned at Tolksoc. (Let us be honest here. The only person who ever finished much at Tolksoc was
jedda, and occasionally me, when I cheated and bought vital bits from the charity shops.) What, you may reasonably ask, has a patchwork quilt got to do with the immortal works of J. R. R. Tolkien? And I am bound to answer, Not much. However, after I'd dressed up as Eowyn for the 2004 party, and Ioreth for the 2005 one, and done my fairy godmother act on various other people's dresses, I'd had about as much of long skirts as I could cope with, so I got out my bag of silks.Originally it was a collection of remnants from a Suffolk silk mill. Pretty much as soon as I got it I started cutting out diamonds and tacking them to templates. (This was, in fact, even before I went to university, and therefore began well before Tolksoc.) Then I lost interest and abandoned it for a while. In 2005 or 2006 I picked it up again, and that was what I did of a Wednesday evening: evensong, supper, snip and sew.
I think this one would have got finished had it not been for getting married last year. Making two bridesmaids' dresses took a lot of my sewing time, as did other pre-matrimonial tasks. As it was, there are offcuts from my wedding dress (gold) and my bridesmaids' dresses (royal blue) in there. I finished taking the templates out last week. Now all I have to do is put a bottom layer together, get a middle layer, sew the lot together, and quilt.
Not much, then!