A Bluestocking Knits

Well — I totally get that.

So I was tidying up my pictures folder on my computer, and saw all this stuff that I've been saving, and it's really a bunch of odds and ends, but here it is.

My new Daguerrotype Boyfriend —

Okay, two —

who happens to be Fritjof Nansen, actually….

Speaking of polar explorers, here's a blog button, just for fun —

One of my favorite scenes in one of my favorite films, the 1995 "Persuasion" with Amanda Root and Ciaran Hinds.  This scene is just after Fredrick has written that heart-stoppingly romantic letter, and Anne's brother-in-law asks him "Which way are you going?" and he replies, looking at Anne, "I hardly know."  Oh!  Plus I crave a spencer like hers.

Just because we're all so used to seeing her as quite old in her dust-jacket photo, here is Edith Pargeter, also known as Ellis Peters of the "Cadfael" books, young and with a drolly quizzical smile —

Why I love the British (I):

Why I love the British (II):

Well, I don't think I'm going to get my last two projects done for my self-imposed WIPapalooza — I admit I got distracted by FutureLearn courses, then David said he needed something to keep his hands warm on his Shanghai trip, and could I make fingerless gloves instead of just mitts? and then there was this pretty little thing,

which is a miniature William Morris carpet in cross-stitch.  I can probably finish the Norwegian mittens this winter, but the scarf is still a really long-term, a-few-more-rows-a-week kind of project.  Such is life.