tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28203207265144759.post386076167343055945..comments2024-03-09T00:25:22.754-08:00Comments on City Views, Country Dreams: City Views, Country DreamsFranceshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08352407314710067616noreply@blogger.comBlogger50125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28203207265144759.post-23374084969062718902015-06-26T16:24:41.900-07:002015-06-26T16:24:41.900-07:00Thank you so much for your very kind words. I kee...Thank you so much for your very kind words. I keep reminding myself that knitting is just one stitch at a time, and this project is giving me a chance to refresh some math skills that were getting a bit rusty.<br /><br />Please do visit again.Franceshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08352407314710067616noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28203207265144759.post-58399525636200094862015-06-26T12:04:39.834-07:002015-06-26T12:04:39.834-07:00Your knitting is spectacular, I can't believe ...Your knitting is spectacular, I can't believe you are making it up as you go along. Such pretty colours<br />Caz xx Wainwright and Wright.Cohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14861281622417274521noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28203207265144759.post-3138979632040511862015-06-20T07:00:55.015-07:002015-06-20T07:00:55.015-07:00Elizabeth, you are too kind...thank you so much.
...Elizabeth, you are too kind...thank you so much.<br /><br />I guess the thing to keep in mind about fair isle is that you've just got two colors going on each row...it's the accumulation that adds to the colorful fun. I do encourage you to give it a go. xoFranceshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08352407314710067616noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28203207265144759.post-64103525057331270622015-06-19T11:54:33.482-07:002015-06-19T11:54:33.482-07:00I am in awe of your beautiful knitting Frances! W...I am in awe of your beautiful knitting Frances! What a complicated and challenging thing to do. I love knitting and regard myself as a competent rather than accomplished knitter but I would not know how to start something quite so difficult. And yet for all its technical difficulty it looks so light and gentle and perfect. You are very talented!Elizabeth Musgravehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09473705107636868753noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28203207265144759.post-2654644441012689592015-06-17T06:17:25.332-07:002015-06-17T06:17:25.332-07:00I am so glad that you've visited here and left...I am so glad that you've visited here and left me a comment...because it gave me the chance to make my own visit over to your beautiful coastal site.<br />it's also great to meet another Kate Atkinson fan. What a fine writer she is.<br />Best wishes.Franceshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08352407314710067616noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28203207265144759.post-45081764951473227802015-06-16T14:11:16.397-07:002015-06-16T14:11:16.397-07:00My mum gave me a hardback copy of Life After Life ...My mum gave me a hardback copy of Life After Life when it was published – such a treat – and I absolutely loved reading it (as I have all Kate Atkinson's books). It's good to hear that her next is also very fine. I do love the look of your cardigan. My knitting skills are extremely basic and so I am in awe that you've actually made this up! I'm very pleased to have recently found your blog. Best wishes to you from the south-east coast of the UK. SamAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28203207265144759.post-70378690883147284492015-06-16T06:55:05.905-07:002015-06-16T06:55:05.905-07:00Chris as I read your comment, I thought to myself ...Chris as I read your comment, I thought to myself that what I am attempting with my "from scratch" knitting is far simpler than what you have done in your novels. You create entire communities and their inhabitants!<br /><br />I'm also always interested to see how books initially published in the UK get a new cover for the States, and wonder why that is true. I am now approaching the final chapters of this KA book and do not wish it to end.<br /><br />xoFranceshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08352407314710067616noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28203207265144759.post-34831891159127122142015-06-15T06:19:09.387-07:002015-06-15T06:19:09.387-07:00I love the colours in your beautiful work and am f...I love the colours in your beautiful work and am filled with awe and admiration at the 'making it up' bit! Wah! I could never do that in a million years!<br /><br />I love Kate Atkinson, she's one of my top five favourite authors. I was also very interested to see a different cover for A God in Ruins. Truthfully though, for my money the publishers could just issue a plain cover with the title - so long as it was by Kate Atkinson, I'd read it. I haven't read this one yet but I'm very much looking forwards to reading it soon. Cx<br />Chris Stovellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03741359642268813093noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28203207265144759.post-3617683685956029692015-06-14T15:12:17.598-07:002015-06-14T15:12:17.598-07:00Vagabonde, I am delighted to see your kind words. ...Vagabonde, I am delighted to see your kind words. I do appreciate what you mean about trying to find time for all that we wish to do. (That's got to be so much better than being one who's bored with too much time on his/her hands!)<br /><br />Yes, another breakfast together would be grand. Perhaps your knees might get some sort of rest this summer, and be able to handle the MTA subway system's stairs...or even experiment with the above ground bus routes. Let us explore all this more via emails.<br /><br />This week's news from Paris has included updates about alternatives to those heavy love locks' dangers to a certain bridge. I thought of you when I read these reports.<br /><br />Love to you and your husband, dear Vagabonde. xoFranceshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08352407314710067616noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28203207265144759.post-32756999843794869002015-06-14T14:39:10.849-07:002015-06-14T14:39:10.849-07:00With our last trip and the other one coming up I n...With our last trip and the other one coming up I need to catch up. I looked at your past posts. I had to enlarge your pictures of wisteria and lilac in the park and admire them. I think wisteria is one of the most romantic flowers ever. The Dance Parade was quite a parade – I looked at all your photos closely – such an array of color, costumes and people – the music must have enhanced all this tremendously. What a great coincidence for you to be there to buy your veggies.<br /><br />I enjoyed your pictures of your neighborhood. I’d love to have breakfast with you again in the New Wave restaurant. I’d like to plan a trip to New York for the fall but my knees have gotten so bad that it is getting very hard to walk – and the stairs on the subway scare me – they are not like in Paris with many escalators. <br /> <br />I also had much pleasure following you in your walk in the Conservatory Garden. The flowers there are charming and so different from those I saw in Key West – vive la difference! Your last photo could have been taken for the movie Blow Up – I watched this film years ago. I remember it – a photographer thinks he may have witness a murder while taking pictures of trees – that was a good movie.<br /><br />The colors of your fair isle cardigan go so well together – you could make a painting from your design. You are an artist on needlework and an engineer too with all the complicated calculations that have to be made to get the accurate pattern – it is an impressive work. I do not know Kate Atkinson’s books but will make a note of her name for future reference.<br />Vagabondehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10774109692564954568noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28203207265144759.post-41554147739776341402015-06-13T19:18:26.531-07:002015-06-13T19:18:26.531-07:00Friko, thank you so much for your praise. Knittin...Friko, thank you so much for your praise. Knitting is just a matter of pulling a loop over a loop. Where the fun comes to play is when you can add color and texture and some sort of graphic plan to the game. I've loved knitting for...oh let's say over 50 years.<br /><br />Knowing what a fine writer you are, I"m not surprised that you'd be a Kate Atkinson fan. I am always intrigued at how she finds ways to manipulate what must be autobiographical elements into a variety of characters that mix about in her various novels' plots. <br /><br />I borrowed the new one from the library and was saved the temptation of buying a copy and trying to find shelf space for it.<br /><br />xoFranceshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08352407314710067616noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28203207265144759.post-14962915571468860212015-06-13T19:06:00.322-07:002015-06-13T19:06:00.322-07:00Jeri, I appreciate all that you've said about ...Jeri, I appreciate all that you've said about this Fair Isle project, particularly since I am well aware of the wonders you create...and know that there is no way I would be able to do what you do.<br /><br />Isn't it fun to make new creations...whatever form they might take? Many thanks to you.<br /><br />xoFranceshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08352407314710067616noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28203207265144759.post-92095263430037174542015-06-13T09:57:10.577-07:002015-06-13T09:57:10.577-07:00Goodness me, what a fantastic team that will be wh...Goodness me, what a fantastic team that will be when it’s finished. Such expertise, such artistic creativity, such sheer devotion to the job.<br /><br />I am hugely impressed. I really hope you will show the finished article.<br /><br />I too like Kate Atkinson’s books very much and have read every one of them. Not the last one, yet; that’s a pleasure still to come. It’s still only out in hardback here, as well as an eformat. Frikohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04277167831642088694noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28203207265144759.post-50278920297933929122015-06-13T06:08:41.161-07:002015-06-13T06:08:41.161-07:00Frances, you are truly a marvel with the needles! ...Frances, you are truly a marvel with the needles! Your wonderful jacket is so full of delightful pattern and the colors are a lovely soft mix. I do not knit, and if mathematics is involved, I suppose I never will. If you succeed in creating your own pattern, as it seems you will, a new world of sales will open up in your Etsy shop.jerilandershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07418564262425621746noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28203207265144759.post-80302086492005986652015-06-13T05:55:28.053-07:002015-06-13T05:55:28.053-07:00Linda, thanks so much for those kind words.Linda, thanks so much for those kind words.Franceshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08352407314710067616noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28203207265144759.post-72557857363350133242015-06-12T11:39:37.409-07:002015-06-12T11:39:37.409-07:00Beautiful! You are very talented! :)Beautiful! You are very talented! :)Lindahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12692170857496442623noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28203207265144759.post-86514526968874928842015-06-12T05:48:10.968-07:002015-06-12T05:48:10.968-07:00Lucille, I began this jacket with a lot of little ...Lucille, I began this jacket with a lot of little sketches and thinking about all the blue, green and harmonizing colors of yarn I had accumulated. Once I decided on the blue for the ribbed edges, other bits sort of fell into place. I've even been enjoying the math and figuring out how to keep those fair isle motifs centered properly...that bit is a bit tedious and more easily done with a fresh morning mind!<br />Sorry about your son's soaking in Central Park...those storms can arrive suddenly...we might have one this afternoon, although got by without actual rain on several other recent afternoons with thunderstorm potential. I think the forest he's talking about is The Ramble. It's beautiful, but also a place to be a bit wary at certain times of the day. <br />Glad that he did get to see the Park. Hope to show it to you in person some day. xoFranceshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08352407314710067616noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28203207265144759.post-88362227683630293222015-06-12T05:41:10.512-07:002015-06-12T05:41:10.512-07:00Carol, I'm so glad you are a regular reader, a...Carol, I'm so glad you are a regular reader, and thank you very much for this comment. It's fun to share bits of NewYork that just might not be in any travel guide book. Although...some of the spots I visit are in lots of guide books!<br />Thank you also for your kind words about the current knitting project. xoFranceshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08352407314710067616noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28203207265144759.post-66542273423223583822015-06-12T05:38:31.378-07:002015-06-12T05:38:31.378-07:00Vicki, I'll always be so grateful for having m...Vicki, I'll always be so grateful for having my Great Auntie Mae teach me to knit when I was very young, so many years ago.<br /><br />I think that if you were to read Kate Atkinson's books in the order in which they were written, you will love seeing how her writing range has expanded from her brillian debut. xoFranceshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08352407314710067616noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28203207265144759.post-44400715271080396522015-06-12T05:35:55.464-07:002015-06-12T05:35:55.464-07:00Kristin, isn't it fun to play with color...whe...Kristin, isn't it fun to play with color...whether it's with paint, yarn, fabric, or even in a garden. Yes, the Conservatory Garden is a real gem. xoFranceshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08352407314710067616noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28203207265144759.post-70364095133671879142015-06-12T00:26:22.591-07:002015-06-12T00:26:22.591-07:00The detail and complexity of that detail in your j...The detail and complexity of that detail in your jumper is quite awe inspiring. Those colours will suit you beautifully. I have so enjoyed your garden walks. My son was astonished by the size of Central Park and said there was a forest in the middle of it! Did I tell you he got caught in a torrential downpour and had to shelter in a grotto. No umbrella! He was soaked to the skin and had to borrow clothes from the friend he was visiting.Lucillehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14414527658216916537noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28203207265144759.post-53852502038263805742015-06-11T21:45:23.004-07:002015-06-11T21:45:23.004-07:00Hi Frances,
I always read your posts, but don'...Hi Frances,<br />I always read your posts, but don't comment all the time. But I so appreciate all your wonderful photos of NYC, and the flowers and parks, etc. And your knitting is super! What a clever person you are to figure out a pattern and knit with all those gorgeous colors. Can't wait to see the finished product!Carol Crump Brynerhttp://blog.carolcrumpbryner.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28203207265144759.post-16979978898666105442015-06-11T18:33:33.134-07:002015-06-11T18:33:33.134-07:00I am in awe of your knitting talent! I only just ...I am in awe of your knitting talent! I only just discovered Atkinson via HUMAN CROQUET and am eager to read more -- perhaps I'll begin at the beginning.Vicki Lanehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08114677510459055768noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28203207265144759.post-48888647721448762352015-06-11T11:41:55.831-07:002015-06-11T11:41:55.831-07:00Beautiful fair isle Frances! Loved the photos of t...Beautiful fair isle Frances! Loved the photos of that gorgeous garden in Central Park. Stunning. <br />Kristin Nicholashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09038900681076035087noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28203207265144759.post-91853141597915250592015-06-11T06:07:58.017-07:002015-06-11T06:07:58.017-07:00Thanks Su! As summer heat begins to stake out its...Thanks Su! As summer heat begins to stake out its NYC territory, I am going to try to keep going with this project. I am so curious to see how it will all turn out. Promise some updating along the way to the final cast off and sew up. xoFranceshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08352407314710067616noreply@blogger.com