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#12 fast food

Fast food since most was prepped earlier.

Potatoes + lentils + apples + the tiniest bit of cumin with a drizzle of yogurt mixed with lemon flavored olive oil.

Pairing number 12.

Digital pair...or layer. It was fast too.

y is for yellow, yes, and yarn

From the garden.

Yummy yellow beans and lemon cucumber.

Goldenrod from the garden at work.

I brought some home to do some dyeing with, but really need to transplant some of it in my garden.

It's on the endangered list at work...Goldenrod looks a bit weedy and it's in the front entry way.

Cleaning up the yarn stash.

Saying yes to play.

The babies are growing up.

 

w is for wonder, want, and wool

I wonder what if...

layers

filters

adjust

spin

take action

I went to the fabric store for thread and saw this fabric.  It was want, not wonder. A smaller piece would have been sufficient for a bit of study but I thought "jacket" right away.

There is a  bit more work to do.  Binding for the edges. Maybe a cut down the middle to make it a cardigan?

The first of the dyer's coreopsis to bloom. I have wool to dye tomorrow, maybe a small bundle with this flower?

I wonder...

s is for salad, shawl, shirt/stitch and summer

Salad: butter lettuce, peaches, sherry vinegar, olive oil with lemon and herbs, scamorza cheese.

Shawl.  The edge is secured and ready for the dye pot. 

Shirt/stitch. It has a few extra seams so that I could use scrap fabric. It's a self drafted pattern inspired by several sources (Spirit Cloth, School of Nomad Arts, Conscious clothing, dosanyc). 

Summer.

It's the season (noun) and it seasons (verb) everything.

o is for one

Sometimes I wish I could be interested in just one thing.

Sometimes I have to remind myself if I just do one thing a day I will be moving forward on something...

Sometimes I tell myself, one more day, one more week, one more row, one more page, one more hour...

 

l is for learn, light, lens, and love

But I have only two things to share tonight, because I have left it too late in the day...

Gooseneck loosestrife.

Layers.

Solar lanterns.

They might light the way.

k is for keep

I wanted more tonight.

I was thinking about the things I keep. 

Mostly old things.  Like this:

I was thinking about things that keep happening. 

That I keep doing.

That a keep, as a noun, is a type of tower in a castle.  The last place of defense during the Middle Ages in Europe.

Really, this is about the going.

To keep going.

So this is all I've got tonight.

j is for joy

Color and light are joy.

(Fused glass made by my mom.)

The garden is joy (mostly).

And play is joy.

h is for hazelnuts, hummingbirds, here, and hope

Here... Home but altered.

"Here" a poem by Pablo Neruda that I want to stitch into the robe/jacket that I am making. It's in The Sea and The Bells.

Here, there are hummingbirds in the hazelnut trees.

And squirrels. They climb out to the tips of the branches, causing  the tree to bounce, shake and shimmy.

Not much hope of there being anything left to ripen. 

I can hope for other things though...

e if for effort and essential and exquisite

"Tell me, what do you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?"  Mary Oliver

What is essential? Food, water, shelter, safety.  Play?

Dyeing fabric with raspberry juice.  The raspberries were the freezer, dated 3 years ago. A bit frosty.

I ask myself often why make something?

Where to put effort?  I'll need the sweater I am working on in the fall but find myself working on the shawl more often. It's more of a summer project.

(And I'm hoping everyone will just forget that ambitious idea of making 4 sweaters...even if 3 of the planned sweaters were on large needles. I might manage two.)

This didn't take much effort.  A bit of yogurt with cucumber grated in.  Grated beet on top (chiogga).

I found a moth. 

It's markings, exquisite