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Showing posts with label pineapple. Show all posts
Showing posts with label pineapple. Show all posts

Thursday, October 20, 2011

sarah coventry






The Sarah Coventry pineapple.
It's really known as 'Autumn Haze' (1966).
Image sources (1), (2), (3)

Saturday, February 5, 2011

Crochet

I'm a sucker for crochet.
I think it's a combination of mad colours and symmetry.

Crochet-top storage stool (Rice via jeri's organising & decluttering)

I've now bought two of these cushions
from the very talented art & wool on made it



Her tea-cosies are amazing too. 
My all-time favourite crochet tea-cosy is from Wendys Woollys
the pineapple in pineapple stitch:


I need to persuade my mother to take up her hook again. 
There are bags of granny squares here somewhere.

Thursday, November 25, 2010

pineapple

I love this:


But then again I also love the Big Pineapple.
Read about the pineapple in Georgian London

Image: the Dunmore Pineapple (1761), Dunmore Park House, Falkirk, Scotland (via the tiny pineapple)

Saturday, November 22, 2008

Pineapple Ephemera


From the wonderful new Google digitalization of Time Life photographs: "Sen. John Kennedy & his bride Jacqueline in their wedding attire, as they sit down together at table to begin eating a pineapple salad at formally set table outdoors at their wedding reception." (Location: Newport, RI, US; Date taken: 1953; Photographer: Lisa Larsen; ©Time)