by a new appleturnover
my warm woolly wrist warmers knit by Elisa
Motherly pride is showing when I write how I’ve long enjoyed our daughter Elisa’s blog appleturnover since she started in the spring of 2006. As demands of family and an art practice grew, the blog waned at times, was revived and waned again.
This summer while visiting us at home here in Vancouver, away from their present home in London, UK, Elisa redesigned her blog and started it afresh, focusing even more on the natural, can we say old-fashioned, side of homemaking much like her grandmothers practiced and which skipped some of my generation. I never took to knitting myself and did not do much canning, preferring freezing. I used to do a lot of sewing and was challenged this summer to teach a bit of those now rusty skills such as hand-made buttonholes.
Do visit the new and beautiful appleturnover and say ‘hello’. Don’t miss reading her wonderful ‘about’ page. Enjoy!
P.S. In case you are a newer reader and have not made the acquaintance of the blogs of our other two daughters, here is Anita’s and here is Erika’s. Yes, I’m proud of all of them.
Added October 16th, 2010: If you are a knitter, you may be interested in a pattern for a similar pair of fingerless gloves that Elisa has made and posted on her blog.
September 27, 2010 in Blogging, Other artists by Marja-Leena
thanks for all your encouragement and inspiration! x
my mother knits me fingerless gloves, too. I wear them at times when I keyboard; other times when bicycling!
I will visit your girls’ blogs…
Elisa, I’m enjoying your little twitter posts on your blog, following you on your adventures!
Taina, I wore these a lot last winter when on the computer because my wrists would get cold on the leather desk mat. There’s a matching pair of socks too!
I looked at all three and you do indeed have lovely and talented children.
I can see why you’re proud of them – beautiful blogs all. I’m going to bookmark all three. It seems that all of your creations are elegant and smart and beautiful!
Susan, thanks, we’re lucky.
Elaine, thanks so much for your generous praise! They do lead busy lives and sometimes leave their blogs a bit idle. Anita doesn’t say much about herself so I thought I’d explain she’s a writer and her blog is mostly about their home and garden renovations and life in the rural interior of BC.
thanks x i’m still trying to persuade you over to twitter!