OT: Retirement

I'm not retiring, but my cousin is, since he's nearly 40.  He rose from life as a professor's son to head off to college financed by the kindness of someone named George Steinbrenner.  I've heard there was a bit of family drama when his grandmother, my acid-tongued aunt, wanted to invite Mr. Steinbrenner to Thanksgiving dinner as a thank-you, but we dodged that bullet and Brad actually had a baseball career of sorts.

Since he has the family gift of gab and is smarter than most of us (and we are all clever in my family), I hope to see him as a successful manager of a baseball club one day despite the obstacles so carefully skirted by his teammates in Houston in this farewell video.

http://mlb.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20080930&content_id=3575060&vkey=news_hou&fext=.jsp&c_id=hou

Maybe he could make a living as a sportscaster in the meantime.  Or teach surfing.

Good luck, cuz!

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Fringe

 

Last night I adding some straight stitches in three of the four scarf colors to mimic fringe. I didn't use the blue Impressions since it would visually disappear against the overpowering blue sparkly background. After that, I did stem stitch using my light rose silk/wool Impressions on top of the ends of the scarf since knitted items are bound off on the ends. That made it look more real.
As you can see, the piece is finished but distorted. The next step will be to block the piece. I'll work on that tonight and explain how I did it tomorrow.

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