Planet Nice Crafts

I apologize greatly for the delay of this blog post. My schedule for school is intense, but it is going well – it is reassuring to know that I can be a full-time student once again because I keep finding classes that I would like to take. Planet Nice is adjusting to the latest schedule as best as it can and I am really happy with the material that I want to share with you. First of all, the cap is complete! And it had a photo shoot on a head mannequin as well as flat. I like the reflection in the mirror of this shot. This flat one is nice because you can see the pattern. I am VERY satisfied with the end product – I am not sure if it was worth all the messing around, but I can sleep soundly now. I have not washed it again, but I plan to when I have another piece to wash it with. It will be interesting to see if the superwash wool keeps up its antics of stretching - I did make adjustments to the number of stitches to compensate if it does or perhaps it will not stret...

Though the hours of daylight have been increasing as we march to the Summer Solstice, here in the workshop of Planet Nice, there has been a loss of ambient light. How? Is this evidence that the workshop is truly on another planet? No, the workshop is not on a different planet but now that the trees have budded out and the leaves are nearly full size, the great Southern windows are shaded. Though ambient light is now more strongly filtered, the advantage is that temperatures are almost always comfortable no matter how hot it gets outside…humidity is another story. 😉 An update to the cashmere neck warmer or scarfette is well – here goes. It made it to 8 inches: Then it made it to the previous goal of 15 inches with plenty of yarn left: The FINAL length is 24.5”, which is a wonderful length for a scarfette. So, I am very very pleased because at this length, it can be a useful item for someone. The knitting did become familiar but because of the multi-ply nature of ...

Well, because PBS did NOT ask me to do a guest post on their blog for Civilizations, I am just going to have to do one here 😊 The first 2 episodes have aired and are available at http://www.pbs.org/civilizations/home/ . I thought they were fantastic.  As promised, the show delivers a global perspective from Mesoamerica Mexico to Prehistoric Spain to Ancient Greece, Italy, Egypt, Jordan, and China. T he photography, both of the close-up details and the landscape with the help of drones, is breathtaking. Just from my traveling experiences, it may be better than actually being there meaning to watch these remote, historic places from the comforts of home so that you can focus on the actual objects of interest without having to worry about anything else is kind of a treat.  The “big” pieces of art, no matter how early in time they were created, are beautiful and represent the awe-inspiring potential of human achievement in my mind. Other pieces are more haunting such as the ...