it's october enough now. for all intents and purposes september has come and gone, and for the most part, in philadelphia, it was nothing but august junior. feh! but things are better now. lamb and barley stew is on the stove and we are soon to be entering the halloween-through-christmas days: my favorite days of the year, but also the time on the knitting blog when posting gets scanty, because i am keeping gifts under wraps.
not so much this year. i don't believe i'm knitting anything for anyone, now that i think of it!
but, back to september, and what the readership has missed. september began with an unexpected package on my doorstep. it turned out to be a big stack of blackwork books on loan from a friend. and she had written the note enclosed with the books in a really lovely copperplate! because that's the kind of people i hang with. copperplating freaks.
i had wanted to try some blackwork motifs rather than just borders. i wondered, could you do a motif in double-running stitch? not me, i found. maybe somebody can. i used backstitch.
then i made (partially) a victorian string art frame for my little bird. i have yet to quite finish it up. it does appear to be a little bird staring at a levitating pair of scissors, doesn't it? that's a bug, on the left. not scissors.