Feng Shui in a Family Room

So this fall a really interesting client emailed requesting an online consult. K and her family have just recently moved into a new house, and are working toward creating a harmonious home incorporating Feng Shui.

I was at once intrigued. I have a very loose knowledge of the Feng Shui principles, having applied certain bits to my own home. Even if you do not specifically subscribe to the belief that our homes have energy passing through them, and we can funnel that energy in ways that are beneficial to us, I think that anyone who is consciously working to create harmony and order in their home to better their life is probably applying this same effort in other areas of their life, and this will likely bring them some great results. There are also some facets of Feng Shui that simply reflect good design principles, such as incorporating mirrors to bounce light (or energy :) around, eliminating clutter and restricting your colour palette. There is also the familiarity factor: it may bring a certain sense of peace to a person knowing that specific areas of your home are always going to contain certain colours, for example.

The first room K wanted to work on was her family room. A traditional modern family two-story, the family room is open to the kitchen/eating area.

Here are some of the before shots:





Beautiful wood floors that complement the cabinetry tones, a lovely fireplace with built-ins, a breakfast nook and plenty of natural light and space - this home has great bones to work with!


K wanted to work with blues or greys, to bring the best fang shui for the particular positioning and placement in the home found here. I agreed that cool-toned walls would work, as her space receives warm southern light and has all that lovely warm wood for balance. Blue pairs effortlessly with orange-toned woods because they are complements on the colour wheel, and blue brings out the richness of the wood. K has bold colours present throughout her home, and wanted this space to have some character.

After working out that K quite liked modern furnishings, we needed to find a way to mesh those styles with her home, which is much more traditional. She had already ordered a white leather sofa. The first thing to work on was the floor plan. By placing the sofa against the wall we opened up the room, creating a better flow (for Feng Shui and design purposes!) I suggested K purchase two chairs to face the sofa, thereby adding comfortable seating without blocking the doorway off. A low bench positioned where the sofa had previously sat provides additional seating for larger gatherings but still allows the two areas to be connected.

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Fiber Factory of One

Its a good week when I look at current projects and theres been some progress on most of them.

The Tour de Fleece continues, and to my great surprise Ive managed so far to meet the challenge of doing something spinning-related every day. After the Corriedale was finished, I dove into the two almost-forgotten tubs of unspun fiber and came up with a bag of green-and-brown roving made from what must be superwash merino, because the little slip in the bag says "100% superwash merino." I have no idea who made it or where it came from. For all I know, it was already in the tub when I bought it.

The lucky thing for me is that the roving is already divided into three equal pieces–and my next challenge is to make my first three-ply. Ive been spinning long draw still–not because I think its necessarily the best way to spin this fiber, but because I am enjoying the sheer hell out of it.

There have been no pictures, because as any Tour de Fleece rider will tell you, pictures of gradually filling bobbins are of only moderate interest to the spinner and hold no thrills for the general public. However, I probably should show you the fiber, shouldnt it?

I just realized forgot to photograph it.

Damn. Next time.

The green merino (that sounds like a niche-market superhero, doesnt it?) is on hold anyhow, because after filling two bobbins I went in search of a third only to discover it was already full of something. I dont know what. Yet there it was, filled with worsted spun...something. Either I spun a bobbin and completely forgot about it or elves have been at work. And, with apologies to my Icelandic friends, I dont believe in elves.

I needed the bobbin, so I pressed pause on the green merino (a sheep who travels around the world preventing ecological disasters?) and decided to chain ply whatever it is just to get rid of it.



I am the first to confess that this is, to put it mildly, an indifferent job of chain plying. I tried and failed to welcome an unforeseen opportunity to brush up an old skill. I rushed, with half my attention on old episodes of Absolutely Fabulous, glancing back at the remainder on the lazy kate every few minutes and thinking, "Dang it, are you still here?"

Old boyfriends reading this will be reminded of the last two hours of any given date with me.

I Swatched a Yarn and I Liked It

Lornas Laces sent me a nice supply of one of their new yarns, Haymarket, and Im turning it into a baby sweater pattern/sample piece in aid of my Snip n Zip (Steeks and Zippers) class.



Cannot say enough things about this yarn. Its knitting up very much like Léttlopi (which I used in my Icelandic sweater), but its extremely soft and feels sweet as it runs through your fingers. The colors, as you would expect, are luscious. It doesnt seem to pill much–what you see above has been knit and raveled six times and carried around in a bag for months. It still looks new.

Ive finished the trickiest part–designing the yoke pattern–after only four tries. Put out the flags.

Crotch Shot

And the Victorian bathing drawers for the Nautical Knitting cruise proceed apace. These are gonna be the talk of Belize.



Preliminary fittings indicate that the proportions in the original pattern are spot-on. That being said, the fit is startlingly revealing. Thats in keeping with period images of this sort of swimwear, but it really hits home when Ive got them on. One false step and HELLO EVERYBODY!

The things I do for art.

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Farewell Bear Facts Limerick

I think this one is my favourite of the three bottle episodes, partly because its the purest of them. We only hear the four main characterss voices - theres not even an ATC line;  it all takes place not just on the plane, but in the flightdeck; and its also, though people dont seem to notice this, all one long scene, taking place in real time. The idea was that this episode would be exactly what you would hear if you listened to twenty eight minutes of the flight deck voice recorder. Its also a rare episode where everybodys Want is the same - to stave off boredom - and so theres little or no conflict, bar some very mild teasing about Martins watch. Normally, Id say an episode cant work without conflict- both the other bottle episodes have plenty -  but I think here, partly because of the secret-telling and partly because there are so many games and other threads going on simultaneously, it somehow works. The effect of which is that this episode seems to me to be the heart of the show - theyre not battling a crazy passenger or other antagonist, or even each other; theyre just getting on with their job, somewhere over Russia, passing the time, teasing each other, playing games, telling secrets, and very very slowly heating up a pie.

Speaking of which, heres a deleted scene:


CAROLYN:     Admirals Pie.

ARTHUR:     Ok. Is that the same as the Fishermans Pie?

CAROLYN:     No, its not. The Admiral and the Fisherman favour entirely different pies.

ARTHUR:   Right. Theyve both got fish in though, right?

CAROLYN:   Yes.

ARTHUR:   Thought so. Because I was thinking, its funny, when you think about it, that the Admirals pie has got fish in it. I can see why the Fishermans pie has. But youd think the Admiral would be sick of fish. I mean, he must have had to eat loads of fish when he was just a sailor. And now hes an Admiral he can have whatever he likes. Id have thought hed want something he couldnt have at sea. Like lamb pie. With turnip.

CAROLYN:   Arthur. Dear heart. Could we have a little less philosophising about the pie, and a little more cooking of the pie?


Also, of course, this episode has Arthur learning the phonetic alphabet, which might have been the single most fun thing for me as an actor in the whole show. Especially Boo! / Bye-bye! / Boncore!

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