tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-65127986083394934342024-03-06T03:14:50.127-05:00 Rosemarsh Knits and Other StuffUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger27125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6512798608339493434.post-66212667806527869522022-09-02T17:41:00.015-04:002022-09-06T07:01:40.443-04:00Pudgy Pigeon - Free Pattern and Shameful Book PromotionI’ve always been fond of pigeons and doves—the big fat city dwellers, the mourning variety that are so quick to amass below my bird feeders, and the too talkative diamond doves that I’ve cared for in my home.That may be why I’ve had a pigeon pattern slated for so many years.Now that I’ve finally gotten around to finishing and publishing A Moonserpent Tale, this is probably the best time to Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6512798608339493434.post-27952649933094858232019-12-17T19:52:00.001-05:002019-12-18T08:55:57.556-05:00Christmas Ornaments Of Patterns PastI don't think that post title works but I am too tired to do anything about it.
So after the obese squirrel, I wasn't in a rush to create a new ornament. I felt like that rotund fellow covered my bases for the rest of the year, until Puffits and I upgraded our tree from a modest three-footer to a very impressive pre-lit five-footer. It's very extravagant, so much so that it felt like an excuse Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6512798608339493434.post-30200104106347414802019-11-19T12:39:00.003-05:002019-12-18T09:14:48.916-05:00Obese Squirrel Ornament - Free Pattern
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Wow, so it's been nearly a year. Whoops.
I haven't updated because I've been doing a lot of learning this year. I've been exploring stitches and techniques, working on new patterns, getting them on Ravelry, and also learning how to process fiber and spin yarn.
I've also learned that I am a crappy blogger as I find that I just like making things or writing, not making things and then Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6512798608339493434.post-16586422011387899432015-12-21T15:17:00.000-05:002016-12-09T10:13:27.134-05:00Knit A Donut Ornament - Free Pattern I'm not sure if I'll ever find myself saying I enjoy Christmas, at least not overall. It's just not my type of holiday. I know it's supposed to be your favorite as a kid but Halloween always held that title for me and probably always will.
As I grew up, the season's ability to excite and enchant was gradually lost in the the crescendo of stress, debt, and questions that repeat, year after year. Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6512798608339493434.post-3410846590205017522015-12-11T13:43:00.001-05:002016-12-09T10:13:59.219-05:00Knit A Mushroom Sprite - Free PatternI'm trying to get a couple new patterns out before the new year. I don't really count this one among them since it is a pretty apparent inception of the puffball inspired fungisprite. Though, apparent as it is, it sure took me long enough to get the damn thing on the blog, but gimme a break people, it's gift season and my hands hurt.
Anyway, if you're going to make a knitting pattern based on a Unknownnoreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6512798608339493434.post-55189875585114947862015-10-26T15:47:00.002-04:002016-12-09T10:14:43.635-05:00Knit A Spooky, Sparkly Spider - Free Pattern
Spooky
and seasonal salutations out there.
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6512798608339493434.post-27074961578922025542015-08-09T17:22:00.000-04:002015-08-09T17:24:19.772-04:00Fungisprite - Free Pattern
Have you ever come across a puffball fungus? I'd occasionally find them when I was a kid and I loved them. I still do. While I think all mushrooms are neat, there's something extra endearing about those rotund white puffs. They're the primary inspiration behind one of my latest little knitting creatures: the fungisprite. I have to thank Puffits for helping finalize that moniker.
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6512798608339493434.post-23578978477706355502015-07-19T16:13:00.001-04:002015-07-19T17:13:14.361-04:00LurleenAbout a month ago, Lurleen died. As a result, I haven't felt like blogging.
I don't know how much I've mentioned her before, but she's always been an inspiration.
That's not to say I haven't been knitting, I have, but it's been to cope and pass time. I've hidden myself away in blanket squares (53 down, 43 to go). I did finish an Alan Dart pattern, which I call my Grief Cat. Following Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6512798608339493434.post-68725661050561151122015-05-18T22:37:00.000-04:002015-05-19T19:52:28.687-04:00What Happened?Where are the paintings? What's with the knitting?
As mentioned in the previous post, a bit has changed. I'm not sure if anyone read this blog back when it was about art and I'm not sure if anyone will read it now that things have gotten a little softer and fuzzier, but just in case, I supposed I should give a little explanation on the transition.
I'm afraid I have to admit it's because of a Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6512798608339493434.post-75294640737784399192015-05-11T17:22:00.002-04:002015-05-11T17:22:28.658-04:00Well This Is DifferentRosemarsh, a murky bog of a blog about art has become Rosemarsh Knits and More. It will be different but it will also be kind of the same.
A bit has changed but there may be more on that later, or at least it will become more apparent later. I hope you'll stick around for it!Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6512798608339493434.post-6847394811778835562011-08-12T16:17:00.001-04:002011-08-12T16:22:07.265-04:00Rosemarsh Sale!From August 15th through September 15th, use this coupon code: MARSH01 to get 15% off anything in the Rosemarsh Etsy shop
For those of you who've never attempted to sell on Etsy, or if you're one of those incomparable sellers who has never had an item sit in your store for more than four months, you may not be aware of Etsy's relisting/renewing racket. The folks over at Esty Bitch and Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6512798608339493434.post-82378944803220513072011-07-25T15:05:00.001-04:002011-07-25T15:21:36.408-04:00The Very Necessary and Precise Task of Eating CupcakesA good friend of mine recently had a birthday. She's always been one of those genuinely supportive friends-- the type that gives you a thumbs-up or drops you a "good luck" when the cynical, broken, husk of your former self isn't expecting it from anyone. She's promoted my stuff without me even having to ask, and she does it time and time again, past the point where I'm sick of talkingUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6512798608339493434.post-79508148297651109242011-07-19T16:35:00.023-04:002011-07-21T10:20:07.223-04:00Chicago Artist and Fellow Etsy Seller, Jane Sloss - A Look at Her Work and Process
Just a few short weeks ago, a fellow artist and Etsy seller by the name of Jane Sloss was kind and generous enough to make me a featured artist on her blog. I'm in very good company, as Jane has featured many talented individuals. It was super exciting!
Naturally, I had to interview and feature Jane here, not only because it's the least I could do to Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6512798608339493434.post-61572332205865933442011-06-11T15:59:00.005-04:002011-06-14T18:05:40.698-04:00In Lieu of Flowers and Chocolates, Here's Art and ScienceI've been on a lot of bad first dates. I've also been on a few awful ones. But, I'm happy to say I've had a couple great first dates in my lifetime-- the kind that I expect to always remember and use to gauge just how meh to awful all my other dates are. What makes a first date great? Well I'm not going to go too far into that for the fact that this is supposed to be some Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6512798608339493434.post-34270007375497182662011-06-04T16:29:00.006-04:002011-06-11T16:51:34.173-04:00Etsy First Impressions, Output Problems, Creative Communities and the Prevention of Soul SuckingPainting just hasn't been in the cards lately, nor has it been on the coffee or kitchen tables and certainly not at the desk. That explains the nearly month-long gap between the last update and now-- but what explains the not-painting? Well a couple of things.
Psssttt.... This is going to be a wordy one, and since there's no single painting to breakdown or discuss, I've sprinkled Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6512798608339493434.post-62665620175421171902011-05-09T19:01:00.005-04:002011-05-09T19:21:53.690-04:00What's Brewing At The Rosemarsh?Well, this cup of tea:
Which was created, anticlimactically enough, by brewing a cup of tea and photographing it with just the right amount of steepage(?). A simple idea that, upon execution, turned out to be more time consuming and detail intensive than expected.
Setting the stage was straightforward enough.
A white slab of scrap countertop, that I use for soldering and clay work, Unknownnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6512798608339493434.post-88460942779404975582011-04-23T15:04:00.000-04:002011-04-23T15:04:43.565-04:00Little Help - April Art ContestI hope to have an actual, eggster-appropriate entry ready for you few-but-mighty readers before the end of this weekend, but also to be done before the end of this weekend is the entering of a painting in this month's Faces of Pearl Art Contest on Facebook. It will be my second time entering and hopefully not my second time not winning, although that seems rather likely. Like most Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6512798608339493434.post-28442083538627653792011-04-20T11:06:00.002-04:002011-04-20T11:40:15.316-04:00English Cottages and a French BulldogOne of those excess of brothers I've mentioned in the Violin post (though not the one who needed braces) will occasionally come home from his library job with no-sells from book sales. I love attending library book sales, but I also love getting library book sale rejects, meaning free books. According to him, they just toss out the ones that fail to find a buyer-- which seems so Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6512798608339493434.post-31905795031126058542011-04-18T23:14:00.005-04:002011-04-20T11:39:16.090-04:00Ingesting Sunshine and Painting Progression Four - Bee and Grape HyacinthsI've grown especially fond of bees in recent years. Since noticing and learning more and more about their declining populations, when I do spot a bee, I gain a small sense of comfort and hope. For me, seeing a bee cross from bloom to bloom has become a little sign-- as if she's saying, "Yeah, things aren't as good as they use to be, but it's not over yet. I'm still here, doing my thing, andUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6512798608339493434.post-24278377565027352002011-04-12T22:29:00.003-04:002011-04-20T11:38:49.465-04:00Taking A Painting Break with Polymer Clay FunWhile I have plenty of reference photos and a full list of ideas in the ole moleskine, I'm still not back in the painting groove. So last night, I decided to pull out my tin of polymer clay. I don't use it very often, but when I do, I use it to give new life to old jars.
Here's the frog I completed last night using a jar from those little
sample jams. I'm using this one to keep the Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6512798608339493434.post-79153066964740630552011-04-09T17:58:00.007-04:002011-04-20T11:39:52.641-04:00Garden Neglect and Painting Progression Three - Grackle by WaterAlready well into April, and here on Long Island, we've finally gotten what feels like a spring day. To properly soak it up, I'm writing this post on the cottage deck-- in view of this year's first jar of sun tea, one of many feral cats who enjoy napping on my deck chairs, and my previously neglected garden.
I kind of let Mother Nature take over when things got a little extreme last summer.  Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0