Earlier this week I was looking around for a photo prop to go along with my article The Key to Keeping Your Free Membership Active at the Knit HeartStrings learn-and-knit-along site. A regular house or car key would not be very interesting. And photo’g one of those new-fangled hotel card keys that is loaded with advertisements would be too crass. Then I thought of this old hotel key that is both interesting and mysterious to me.
Room key for Central Hotel Glasgow
Isn’t it’s design lovely? (at least I think so) They just don’t make keys like this anymore. I like it’s boldness. It’s strength. It’s manly, rustic look.
How did I come into possession of this key? It’s a mystery! The name plate identifies the Central Hotel Glasgow. A little Internet research reveals this hotel dates back to 1883 and was built at the site of Central Station, the main train hub of Glasgow. I’d love to go to Scotland one of these days, and now this hotel is definitely on my list of places to see. But I still don’t know how I got the key to room 473. Something in my child- memory tells me my grandmother might have said my uncle had stayed there while on a tour of service duty and gave her this as a momento. But I might just be making this up as a fantasy.
Please help me start solving the mystery behind this key. Does this style of key look familiar to you and could you help date its time in history?
Mountain Colors is having a 20th Anniversary Celebration and the Kit to make my Loganberry Shawl is the GRAND PRIZE at the end of the month. How exciting and YOU could win it! There are giveaways throughout the month as well. So don’t wait to enter now …
I designed the Loganberry Crescent Shawl especially for Mountain Colors 20th Anniversary in their Retro color Loganberry. Inspired by the luscious colors in this yarn, I feature a cabled lace stitch pattern that suggests the slightly oblong shape and seeds of the loganberry. The short-rowed body of the shawl is an easy, very lacy one-row stitch pattern that works up in a jiffy.
Even more exciting is that the shawl shown here (and the kit that you could win to make it!) is made in the brand new Mountain Colors cashmere/silk yarn called Louisa.
Even if you don’t win, you can’t lose with the fabulous yarns and dyed colors that Diana and Leslie produce for Mountain Colors. I hope you check out their yarns at your favorite local yarn shop or online source. And of course, be sure to ask for HeartStrings patterns such as the Loganberry Shawl there, too.
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Behind the scenes with Jackie E-S and life at the HeartStrings FiberArts studio.
