SWALEDALE MAN.

Yesterday my Mother telephoned from the lake District to say they had awoken to a light flurry of snow, about an inch deep. Much to her suprise, when she went into the village to collect the bread, everyone was talking about it as if it were a problem. The school children had been sent home and the post wasn't delivered. My Mother went about her business as usual and here at Prick Your Finger, we didn't get any snow but we did build a snowman from our own Swaledale Ropey and Dk which is 90p for 10g.

RECIPIES OF EMOTIONS.

Marie Paysant - Le Roux staged an extraordianry experimental  performance at the Hockney Gallery at the Royal College of Art Friday last. These photos do not fully capture the beautiful colour work, and intense atmospheres, all created through the medium of eggs. 

Marie found an egg box lying on a street in Norway, and it got her thinking about emotions. 

"We are like a container of emotional stories. Our shell is porous, we need to protect and build up our precious happiness...

Playing with the qualities of eggs, I suggest an assortment of four main dishes to explain four different emotions. The laying of this experimental table offers a rich vocabulary for a new language. Through an appetizing sensitive research, I hopefully reveal the emotional expressiveness of the specified colours."

Marie, worked with the egg boxes, making them grow with crochet, colouring the eggs by injections of dye, mixing colour with raw eggs, dying boiled eggs, and making meringue. 

The menu contained Hard boiled eggs on green salad for fear, eggs injected with red and boiled in anger, yellow Royal golden boiled egg for sadness, and Lemon meringue pie for happiness.

As dishes were slowly added to the table by Ode Marie and Marie Gibet, Nahum Mantra made sounds taken from the kitchen, reflecting the colour and emotion of every dish.

Check out her blog....

It's at http://mariepaysant-leroux.blogspot.com

WE MUST OUTRAGE!

Thanks be to Anne for adding even more sparkle to our week.

Anne is down sizing her glamorous wardrobe and we are the proud recipients of a Dior Belt and a gorgeous handbag. Anne who was born male, insists that women must have their own lives before they dedicate any time to a man. She has led an outrageous life so far, working on the QE2 as a hairdresser, climbing up flagpoles, making porridge with gin, and flirting with some of the world's most handsome men.

I asked Anne wether she had any photos of herself on the QE2 and she came back with this one. 

Anne is the Conservative candidate for Bethnal Green Council. We hope she gets the vote so she can promote outrageous and caring behaviour in which ever way she wishes. 

MATIA BAZAR - TI SENTO

This week, Claudio the Italian philosopher recommends to stitchers everywhere - 

 Martia Bazar - Ti Sento

SWEEPING PARIS HILTON.

It is a pleasure to sweep the floor under my spinning wheel.  Nothing is wasted.  The bits go straight back through the carding machine.  This weekend it's been  'Paris Hilton' chunky pink hand spun. Available now £2 / 10g.

MAN CRUMBS.

I've noticed since I was a child, that some men, display their last meal on their chests. Women do it too,  but mostly it is the trait of the type of men I know.   I am not dissing them as dirty or clumsy - quite the opposite; men with dinners displayed on their chests are content and thinking to high purpose. He who is well fed is never angry; until he discovers a collection of holes down the front of this best cashmere.  

Moth larvae eat protein fiber, especially if it's greasy. That's why we get holes in our knitwear. The cashmere jumper pictured here provided the larvae with a delicious meal of goat wool, gravy, coffee and biscuit residue. 

Holes continually appear on this garment, so I thought it easier to make the darns a feature. I worked them  in primary colours.  To my delight, I saw the said jumper this weekend, in all it's glory, showered in croissant crumbs, now camouflaged in the darning 'design'.  This man no longer looks like a dribbler, he displays decoration.

Gucci have announced darning is 'in' for men this season.  

BYE BYE BIMBO!

Bimbo was admitted to Prick Your Finger on 15th November with exhaustion from over loving. His face had collapsed, there was loss of stuffing, and he'd mislaid his waistcoat. Julia and Bimbo have loved each other for nearly 60 years, and through that time, it became unclear wether he was a monkey or an elephant.

We put him to bed, under Rosemary's charge, and she has nursed him back to full strength, with a fatter nose, new seams and v neck black jumper. Dancing to Miles Davis, with a new spring in his step, we did wonder wether he was in fact a mouse?

Anyway, Julia is coming to pick Bimbo up on Saturday and we do wish them both well...

It's been a joy to have you around Bimbo! Bye Bye!