Most of my unpacking seems to be devoted to lugging books up from the garage to stack them in the living room. I think about 1/2 of our shipment was devoted to books. And so far we don’t have any bookcases in the house. Craft books, fiction books, non-fiction books, art books, cook books, etc. etc. I’m looking forward to making space so that I can actually get some book cases and position them appropriately.
2 treasures from my craft books – the book on the left, Rug Weaving by Margaret Seacoat, is a book I have had for a long time and I have referred to it over and over again. The book on the right, Norwegian Knitting Designs, is also one I have had for a long time. I sent away to Norway for it in the early 1970’s. Just recently I knit a top down sweater and I used the instructions in this book to knit it. I unpacked that sweater today also – here is a photo taken earlier in Dublin. I made up my own Scandinavian type design.
And as if I didn’t have enough books already, I have also been buying a few new ones here in Seattle at The Secret Garden Bookshop and Half Price Books.
Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCann – a very good book, woven around the Man on the Wire, Phillipe Petit who walked on a wire between the Twin Towers in New York in 1974. We saw the DVD a few nights ago and I now I’ve read this book – really good.
do you remember the Mills and Boon covers jigsaw which we did in Dublin a month or so ago – well, here’s the book to go with it. A graphic design book published by the Princeton Architectural Press. A great book of book covers – makes me look at book covers with a fresh eye.
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The sweater’s beautiful. Good for you! I’ve been thinking about you and hoping everything’s going well. One day at a time. . .