![]() ![]() ![]() In the interview Norah talks about making the move from a science major to becoming a knitwear designer and the key women who have influenced her journey. When this happens, it creates such a renewed excitement, thrill and passion for our wonderful craft of knitting. I can still remember the first time I saw a design by Norah, it was the Chainlink sweater from the Brooklyn Tweed Winter 2015 collection and the beauty and originality of the design took my breath away. ![]() Norah Gaughan is an incredibly accomplished knitwear designer who continues to knock out one stunning and unique design after another. Norah does this in our interview, so you’re in for a real treat! On top of this, we go to Scotland for a special ‘Meet the Shepherdess’ segment, we feature a design by Laura Aylor in New Releases and we show off two finished garments in Bring and Brag. Norah also really enjoys teaching and she’s great at explaining the more advanced topics and techniques. This comes through in her garment shapes, her crazy and beautiful cables and the unusual constructions that she keeps coming up with. Norah stands out as being very much on the cutting edge of innovative designers. Vogue Knitting has just published a book which showcases a collection of her designs spanning from 1987 until the present. Episode 61 is really exciting, featuring an interview with the amazing knitwear designer Norah Gaughan. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() He was awarded the highest cultural honor in The Netherlands, the Prince Bernhard Culture prize, in 2013, was named “Officer in the Order of Orange-Nassau” by the Dutch King Willem-Alexander in October 2018, and he received the first ever Royal Horticulture Society Horticulture Hero Award during the Hampton Court Flower Show in July of 2018. Over the course of his career which spans over four decades, he has constructed dozens of private and corporate gardens, and collaborated on public spaces throughout the world, including Lurie Garden, the High Line in New York City, and temporary installations for the Venice Biennale and the Serpentine Gallery pavilion. Piet Oudolf is a renowned Dutch garden and landscape designer at the forefront of the New Perennial movement. ![]() ![]() Piet Oudolf designed the perennial plant design of Lurie Garden. The design team at MVRDV work with landscape architect Piet Oudolf to integrate the Valley’s extensive planting, which includes 13,500 young plants, shrubs, and trees. ![]() ![]() I can’t not give this five stars, im sorry. I feel like the odd one out with how much everyone didn’t seem to enjoy this□□ ![]() So when my dumb-as-bricks frat bro is scoping out the house for a little experimenting fun, I throw out the offer like it isn’t the most nerve-wracking thing I’ve ever considered. When is it my turn to let loose for a moment? Study, frat duties, planning for the future. My brothers get annoyed when I put a damper on their plans, and wrangling drunken frat brothers isn’t how I pictured my Saturday nights of senior year. The problem is, the one guy who’s up for the ride, is the last one I’d expect.īeing risk manager of a frat house is nobody’s idea of a good time. There’s only one way for me to get this obsession out of my head and that’s by jumping in with both feet and putting it into practice. So when one of my brothers hooks up with a dude from another frat house, it catches me off guard when I can’t stop thinking about them … together. ![]() It’s what I’m known for, and if it’s not fun, I’m not interested, simple as that. ![]() As social chair of Sigma Beta Psi, I’m the life of the party. ![]() ![]() No one has ever written the history of the Defense Department's most secret, most powerful, and most controversial military science R&D agency. NATIONAL BESTSELLER A Pulitzer Prize Finalist and t he definitive history of DARPA, the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency, from the author of the New York Times bestseller Area 51 Lewis George Orwell Mary Pope Osborne LeUyen Pham Dav Pilkey Roger Priddy Rick Riordan J. ![]()
![]() ![]() To address this need and help all types of families, they founded in 2007. Sadly, they could not find an adoption grant organization that was based on a mission of equality. After adopting their first child, Becky and Kipp, were so grateful that they had the financial means to adopt that they decided to make a donation to an organization that would help ease another family’s financial burden. Becky and her husband Kipp adopted their daughter, Jane, in 2005, and their second daughter, Brooke, in 2009. In 1999, she founded The Fawcett Group, a full-service public relations and marketing firm with offices in New York City and Philadelphia. After graduating from Franklin & Marshall College, Becky had a successful career in the magazine industry, first for Baltimore magazine, and then for Philadelphia magazine as the director of marketing. Becky Fawcett is the founder and president of, an equality based organization that seeks to reduce the financial burden of adoption by awarding large, life-changing, problem-solving grants. ![]() ![]() ![]() However, the collaboration process proved to be remarkably smooth, especially considering neither had worked on a comic before. ![]() The Tamakis, although cousins, did not know each other well before beginning the project. ![]() The book was originally to be 96 pages, but Jillian explained that by the time she had completed the art for Parts II and III, it had “ballooned” to 144. That comic forms the basis for Part I of the graphic novel, although it has been revised substantially. Skim has gone through several transformations since Mariko originally conceived of a “gothic Lolita story.” After morphing into the tale of a lonely, plump, tarot card-loving high school student, it appeared as a 30-page comic in the comic series Kiss Machine Presents, an indie-oriented Toronto arts and literary magazine. “Groundwood is a very literary high-end children’s publisher,” Aldana said, “and Skim was the same quality or higher than the rest of the books we publish.” Groundwood publisher Patsy Aldana said Skim will have an initial print run of 20,000 copies and the house was “thrilled” to find a graphic novel that fits well with its list. ![]() ![]() ![]() It also altered the traits of the male leads to make them more appealing to contemporary viewers. Thompson's screenplay exaggerated the Dashwood family's wealth to make their later scenes of poverty more apparent to modern audiences. ![]() Though initially intending to have another actress portray Elinor, Thompson was persuaded to take the role. Studios were nervous that Thompson-a first-time screenwriter-was the credited writer, but Columbia Pictures agreed to distribute the film. She spent five years drafting numerous revisions, continually working on the script between other films as well as into production of the film itself. Producer Lindsay Doran, a longtime admirer of Austen's novel, hired Thompson to write the screenplay. Hugh Grant and Alan Rickman play their respective suitors. ![]() They are forced to seek financial security through marriage. The story follows the Dashwood sisters, members of a wealthy English family of landed gentry, as they must deal with circumstances of sudden destitution. ![]() Emma Thompson wrote the screenplay and stars as Elinor Dashwood, while Kate Winslet plays Elinor's younger sister Marianne. Sense and Sensibility is a 1995 period drama film directed by Ang Lee and based on Jane Austen's 1811 novel of the same name. ![]() ![]() To the rescue comes a small girl who knows that pangolins are friendly fellow creatures who have feelings too, and who convinces her mother to buy Pangolina and set her free. ![]() ![]() Pangolina is especially vulnerable, since her scales are prized by humans who believe they have curative powers. But one day cruel hunters trap Pangolina, putting her into a cage along with her friends, and bring them to a market to be sold as wild game. "From legendary naturalist Jane Goodall, an absorbing fictional tale that will steal hearts and open minds about the plight of the pangolin, the only mammalian species with scales, and endangered by illegal trafficking.Īfter a blissful babyhood being cared for by her loving mother, Pangolina ventures out alone into the forest to become an independent adult, helped along by wise, older animal companions, including a civet and a bat. ![]() ![]() 2023 Within a northern Mexico safe house, a 30-something-year-old asylum seeker ran his fingers across the bumpy scar tissue that had healed unevenly around his wrists. 2021 That’s the world Painter is going to live in for the next eight months, and the scar tissue is very real. 2023 Zalatoris doesn't have scar tissue, not yet. 2023 The body responds by forming scar tissue, which gradually walls off the electrode from the neurons that it is supposed to record or stimulate. 2023 Now, to get to the specifics: There are edges that act as muscle scrapers to work through tight scar tissue. 2023 Misoprostol can also be used to soften the cervix in preparation for reparative uterine surgeries (to remove fibroids, polyps, or scar tissue) and to contract the uterine muscles to prevent blood hemorrhaging after a miscarriage or delivering a baby. ![]() 2023 Unfortunately, brow serums can not prompt new growth on areas with scar tissue. Recent Examples on the Web In 2014, doctors finally discovered the cause of the rare condition: a perforated appendix that had been bursting and healing itself repeatedly for years causing her organs to be wrapped in scar tissue. ![]() ![]() ![]() Until she sent off the manuscript, nobody in the comics world had ever heard of her - I certainly hadn't - but this extraordinary book has instantly rocketed Ferris into the graphic novel elite alongside Art Spiegelman, Alison Bechdel and Chris Ware. The first of two volumes - the second comes out this fall - it's the brainchild of a 55-year-old Chicago illustrator Emil Ferris. That's what happened with My Favorite Thing Is Monsters, a new graphic novel just out from Fantagraphic Books. ![]() This makes it especially thrilling when something dazzling just appears like that alien spaceship in Arrival, startling even those whose business it is be in the know. These days, almost every new movie, TV show, album or book feels so anticipated and pre-packaged that we're already tired of it by the time it's released. My Favorite Thing Is Monsters explores the theme of "monstrousness " from various angles. ![]() |