I just got a new washer and drier. The drier is gas; I'm still waiting for the hook-up.
Glad to hear the Bear's lair is livable! That's always nice!
I'm gonna guess between $50 and $100 dollars, only because eBay is so unpredictable.
I mean, you could get $20 for it if things suck or the right person DOESN'T see it.
Good luck with that!
I'll guess $200.
You don't have an Oregon cardigan kit sitting around there somewhere, do you?
I'm glad that you're getting back to your knitting. I know how doing my art always soothes and grounds me and I can sense it's doing the same for you.
I'm not sure if "Congratulations!" is presumptive; I'll assume it's not, since having time to knit means having mostly-finished all the things you had to do over the summer.
So, Congratulations!
At least $500US - have you priced her kits from Virtual Yarns in the 'new colours'?
Now that we’re back to textiles, it might be well to recall the critical importance that textiles and lace in particular figure in the annals of the philosophy of law. In his treatise on criminal law published in 1932, Francis Wharton posed the classic hypothetical called "The Case of Lady Eldon's French Lace." Here it is in full:
Lady Eldon, when traveling with her husband on the Continent, bought what she supposed to be a quantity of French lace, which she hid, concealing it from Lord Eldon in one of the pockets of the coach. The package was brought to light by a customs officer at Dover. The lace turned out to be an English manufactured article, of little value, and, of course, not subject to a duty. Lady Eldon had bought it at a price vastly above its value, believing it to be genuine, intending to smuggle it into England.
Now, the philosophical question is whether Lady Eldon should be guilty of attempting the crime of smuggling the lace into England – as one might be found guilty of an unsuccessful murder or robbery attempt – when, even had she fully executed her plan, she could not have committed the intended crime. Dr. Wharton thought that she ought to be found guilty since she had a criminal intent. American jurisprudence, however, has favored the opposite answer. It reasons that there is no need to punish someone for initiating actions which could not possibly constitute a crime even if fully carried out as desired and, therefore, threaten no public harm. Thus, for example, a court once decided that a particularly inept hunter who shot at a stuffed deer believing it to be a live animal was not guilty of attempting to hunt out of season.
But my main interest in the hypothetical is the human tragedy we see unfolding here. In the early twentieth century, the British aristocracy was reaching the end of a precipitous decline and, like other aristocrats of the time, Lady Eldon was probably already living far beyond her means. Why else would she be reluctant to pay the duty on the lace, and why hide the fact of the purchase from Lord Eldon? So, in one more effort to maintain the illusion of prosperity, she purchases a quantity of what she thinks to be expensive French lace, except that she is swindled by an unscrupulous French lace merchant eager to take advantage of her desperate situation.
Already burdened with the knowledge that she has purchased lace that she cannot possibly afford, she is utterly unprepared for the humiliation which awaits her in Dover. A lowly government functionary – a customs official – (far beneath her high station in life) discovers the lace, and she must now face both Lord Eldon and the civil authorities with her deceit. Lord Eldon, of course, is mortified, and the local constabulary cannot conceal its glee at Lady Eldon’s arrest and appearance before the magistrate. But wait! There is yet one more blow which Lady Eldon must endure, the final insult. The police inspector informs her that she is now free to go because she cannot even recognize common domestic lace when she sees it.
The public disgrace is now complete. She returns in silence with Lord Eldon to their dark estate, its former splendor faded as years of neglect have taken their toll, soon, we expect, to be auctioned off or opened to the rabble as – horrors – a tourist attraction.
Dr. Wharton, of course, would heap on this poor woman a prison sentence or transportation to the colonies. Perhaps this is the real reason for the American rule: Lady Eldon has suffered enough.
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