bee creative

feeling like autumn

Soup for lunch with a few last things for the season:  Onions, tomatoes, dehydrated celery leaves cooked in olive oil + a splash of vegetable broth and then a trip to the blender with a few basil leaves added. Plus cheddar cheese.

A few more quince from the garden, more visible now that leaves are falling. A hat makes a good basket in a pinch.

I need a few more shirts for work that are easy to layer. This is the top from Sonya Philip's book The Act of Sewing. I really love this pattern.  Linen fabric from the stash, hand stitched using the Mantua-makers seam...so much fun to do!

on the line

As a phrase it means, risk and danger.

When the phrase came to me I was really thinking about what was on the laundry line.  That was before I had to get Gibson down; he was dangling by his paws after climbing up the fabric.

I think it's the clothes pins he's after. 

Then I thought of the line I stitched today.

And of writing a line of...poetry? 

I made notes right on the fabric during a class today.

Mantua-makers seam.

All of this is not to be confused with a train of thought.

Which might be derailed.

 

progress of some sort

Adding some blue and decorating the counting paper with coffee rings...

Next color, green.

Stormy weather here, perfect for knitting and sewing.

numbers

Yesterday morning I took this photo, more thinking about the colors of window sill and cup.  While playing a bit I found my reflection layered over the paper lantern hanging outside in the image and then decided I liked it better in black and white.

Sunrise: 7:44 AM   Sunset: 6:04

Last night's low was 34 degrees F.

A gift in the mail was perfectly timed, reminding me to play.

Keeping track of my rows.

Typepad is doing weird things right now.  I had to downsize photos so that the whole image would show.  Comments have been wonky. 

hard to believe

Hard to believe it's almost the end of October considering what is still available at the farmer's market.  Underneath the top layer are green to greenish tomatoes.  I bought a small box of "seconds" to make chutney.  Also tomatillos to round out what I  have to make salsa and a few quince to add to what I have to make quince paste or maybe something else, that's for tomorrow.

Lunch made with veggies bought today. 

Spinach, peppers, onions, panner (I love it!), buttermilk, spices, hazelnuts.

I set aside some of the spinach, peppers, and onions before adding the other ingredients for...

Pizza!

So good to have time to cook.

walking in the rain along the bay

There is a tiny little beach at one end of the park.

A mixture of rocks, mussel shells, oyster shells, and brick.

It couldn't have been more beautiful.

And then someone stopped to say hello,

Merlin

changing

Finished the skirt I've been working on and wore it to work.  Just a couple more days of sunshine (and smoke) and then it will be raining again.

It's time...

 

casting on, early in the morning

Second sleeve.

states of being

B is for

Buoyant (glass balls at Mom and Dad's), which can be the act of floating or a mood.

And black (also at times a mood).

And back to it, which I am.

(Because I had to play along.)

 

permission slips

This morning I was ready to go to the Farmer's market and decided I just didn't want to go...so I didn't.

So there was a nap.

Some digital collage.

Sewing.

House cleaning.

Lunch.

Maybe a little too much olive oil from frying the panner and almonds in this but it was good. 

Squash + water + panner + almonds + onions + paprika type spice mix + olive oil.

A little puttering in the garden once the air quality improved.  It's been in the moderate to unhealthy categories today.

And a lot of distraction provided by the cats...