tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1735607038531483282.post7838275406402172657..comments2024-03-28T19:51:07.901+01:00Comments on PÅ LIVETS TRASSLIGA BASTMATTA: Fascinerad av en fascinatoremhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01463254055979575950noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1735607038531483282.post-807953389794629602018-03-07T17:54:46.019+01:002018-03-07T17:54:46.019+01:00Helena,
Jag grunnade också över det där "hand...Helena,<br />Jag grunnade också över det där "handtaget", funderar på om man lär det hänga ned på baksidan av stolen för att fästa virkningen där. Eller om det var avsett för armstöden, som väl behöver större/längre yta än huvudet.<br />Margarethaemhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01463254055979575950noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1735607038531483282.post-48834886185601371512018-03-07T17:52:28.515+01:002018-03-07T17:52:28.515+01:00I sin bok "Caper-Sauce" (http://www.gute...I sin bok "Caper-Sauce" (http://www.gutenberg.org/files/39944/39944-h/39944-h.htm), i kapitlet "Mrs. Washington's eternal knitting" (http://www.gutenberg.org/files/39944/39944-h/39944-h.htm#Page_47), skriver Fanny Fern:<br />This writer says that Mrs. Washington's "knitting was never out of her hands; that when callers came, the click of her needles was always an accompaniment to her conversation. That she deemed it[Pg 48] a privilege to attend to the details of housekeeping, and regarded the days when her official position required her presence in the drawing-room as lost."<br />Now she is a specimen of what I should call a one-sided woman. I am glad she was an accomplished housekeeper, and better still, was not above attending to her duty there. It was splendid, in her high position, that she should set so good an example in this regard. But it was not good to keep her needles clicking when callers came, as if to say, You are an intruder, and I can ill endure your presence. This, I maintain, was neither necessary nor polite. It was not good that she could consider her "drawing-room days" as lost, and not perceive that they might be turned to account in elevating, as an intelligent woman can, the tone of the society she moved in. That she took the contrary view of it shows, to my thinking, that she was not truly an intelligent woman. I believe her duty, as the wife of an American President, lay there quite as much as in looking over her household economies. But that was Then, and this is Now! In those days one-sided men and women were plenty, and many-sided men and women rare. We can point to-day to many glorious examples of the latter, thank Heaven.<br /><br />Beror det inte på hur väl man känner sin besökare? - till småprat med en god vän är det väl helt ok att handarbeta. Jag tycker nog det beror på situationen. Jag stickade och virkade under lektionerna i skolan - somliga lärare tyckte det var i sin ordning, medan andra blev nervösa av det.<br />Margaretha emhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01463254055979575950noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1735607038531483282.post-26430606864145507602018-03-06T23:45:28.231+01:002018-03-06T23:45:28.231+01:00Den där antimakassen fascinerar mig, en sån märkl...Den där antimakassen fascinerar mig, en sån märklig form.Helenahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01719361819592072861noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1735607038531483282.post-86565198327205247912018-03-06T21:51:20.402+01:002018-03-06T21:51:20.402+01:00Mycket spännande här!
Men jag fastnar särskilt vi...Mycket spännande här! <br />Men jag fastnar särskilt vid det där med att man bör lägga ifrån sig stickningen när någon hälsar på. Och minns när en granne tittade in när jag bodde i USA. Jag satt och stickade och fortsatte med det när vi satt oss med en kopp kaffe. Då frågade grannen "Is that something religious?" Jag kanske var lite för ivrig där med mitt stickande?Karinhttp://www.karinenglund.comnoreply@blogger.com