Penny Richards' photos
2025 Book Blanket
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In 2025 I made a crocheted square for each book I read, usually inspired by the cover art. This is the finished blanket. Cider can for scale.
The list of books is at my blog:
pennamite.wordpress.com/2026/01/01/what-i-read-in-2025
Square by square posts were made at Ravelry all year; if you're a Raveler, here's the project link:
www.ravelry.com/projects/pennamite/book-blanket-2025
Pandemic chalk: Sonrel oranges
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The chalk on our walk this month is loosely based on an early 20c painting by French artist Élisabeth Sonrel. (Our orange tree is fruiting right now.)
Pandemic chalk: Medieval musicians (1)
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This month the chalk on our walk is based on an image from the Cantigas de Santa Maria, a 13c. Spanish codex featuring many images of musicians. Many of the images have grid backgrounds that make them chalk ready. This is the layout with the source image for comparison.
Pandemic chalk: Medieval musicians (2)
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This month the chalk on our walk is based on an image from the Cantigas de Santa Maria, a 13c. Spanish codex featuring many images of musicians. Many of the images have grid backgrounds that make them chalk ready. This is the work in progress, with the figures drawn and colored now.
Pandemic chalk: Medieval musicians (3)
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This month the chalk on our walk is based on an image from the Cantigas de Santa Maria, a 13c. Spanish codex featuring many images of musicians. Many of the images have grid backgrounds that make them chalk ready. This is the final version until the sun, rain, squirrels, raccoons, delivery people, etc., make their amendments.
Pandemic chalk: Candy corn
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For Halloween this year, the chalk on our front walk was a scattering of giant candy corns on a purple background.
Pandemic chalk: The Sunshade
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Did the annual chalk event in Belmont Shore, where they tape paper to the sidewalks in a busy shopping district. This year my chalk was based loosely on The Sunshade by William John Leech, a 1913 painting in the National Gallery of Ireland.
Pandemic quilting: Star Wars quilt
Pandemic chalk: Inspired by Ada
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The chalk on our walk in September was inspired by a well-known image of Ada Lovelace.
Pandemic quilting: Colorful for A
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Made a small colorful quilt for a niece; the center lace is from her grandmother's inherited stash.
Cardboard landspeeder wheelchair costume
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Son's landspeeder wheelchair costume is done! Made from a garment box (perfect fit over his chair), some foamcore, lots of duct tape and spray paint, some oatmeal boxes and ramen bowls (the rockets), foil tape, brads, hot glue. Bonus, a wheelchair is kinda perfect for evoking the glide of a landspeeder.
Pandemic chalk: Back to School
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The chalk on our front walk right now is for Back to School night (last night in my neighborhood). The image is loosely based on a photo of botanist Ethel Grace Stiffler Carpenter (1899-1995), from the Smithsonian. The square is greyer than I like, because it's been about four months since we had rain, and the chalk layers start to build up. (I know, I could hose it off.)
Pandemic chalk:Bouboulina
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Chalked a free ad for the South Bay Greek Festival next weekend, as an excuse to draw Bouboulina, a Greek independence heroine.
Pandemic chalk: Mosaic refresh on stag
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The stag image I chalked a few weeks ago faded a lot in the summer sun, so I refreshed it with a faux mosaic effect.
Pandemic chalk: Big Pizza
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I chalked a big pizza outside my house in late May, to reuse the Rebel Princess's circle. I let friends suggest the toppings.
Pandemic chalk: As You Like It
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I chalked a free advertisement for Shakespeare by the Sea outside my house in June, because they'll be at the neighborhood park next month with As You LIke It and Julius Caesar.
Pandemic quilting: Stripes for Sam
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A small quilt made from 36 squares, arranged in a 6x6 square; colors are black-and-white, with some pastels yellow and blue, and a purple border.; one corner is turned over to reveal a backing fabric in a different purple, with a black-and-white border.
Pandemic quilting: Stripes for Sam
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A small quilt made from 36 squares, arranged in a 6x6 square; colors are black-and-white, with some pastels yellow and blue, and a purple border. My first time trying half-square triangles.
