![]() May Fairway never stop carrying it, along with the Heinz baked beans, the wine gums, and the Bird’s custard, on the Exotic English Items shelf. There is no “leaf” concept: it’s almost powder. I like the way one bag makes a large amount of very strong but not bitter tea in less than a minute. I like that it has the name Yorkshire in it. No muss! No fuss! We’ll crank up the random number generator and announce the winners tomorrow. ![]() Snip-snap, it’s done! Remember the instant lemon-flavored ice tea mix? It had that paper seal on the jar that was so fun to jab with a spoon? And how weirdly delicious the wet powder tasted?) (This is a Nestea Instant Tea type of contest. Leave a comment to this post telling us your favorite tea. I have successfully cadged five copies of Jane Gottelier’s fabulous new book, Tea and Knitting, so let the contest begin! Here’s how to enter: The shawl is long this is key.)Īlternate: You can tie it in back like an apron, if you’re working a market stall or something and don’t want your tails coming undone.Ī DELICIOUSLY RICH AND REFRESHING CONTEST (Orna made me promise to crop this area, on general principle (the principle being Do Not Show My Butt on the Internet, which is hard to argue with), so you have to trust me on this. This is critical, as one of the aggravating factors of Jemima Puddleduck Syndrome is when the point of a triangular shawl appears to be directing the viewer’s eye to the wearer’s keister. NB: The point of the shawl hangs below the seat-of-pants area. Jemima Puddleduck could use this information. Here we see how the tails hang down the back in dramatic fashion. ![]() Toss one long tail over the opposite shoulder, then the other tail over its opposite shoulder, effectively swaddling the wearer. Step 2: Place shawl, orienting yarnovers down center back, with tails hanging down in front. (“Kay, you don’t think the glasses, indoors, look….stupid?” No! What are you talking about? Who’s running this?) Step 1: Put on your vintage Chanel sunglasses. I asked my assistant, Orna, to demonstrate. (Not to mention how to knit the thing now that it’s done I’m sort of amazed that I did it.) Readers tell me that it’s hard to visualize how one would wear a shawl that has a wingspan of something like 90 inches.
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