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#44 holding things we love

Today I painted a boat.

Sorry Gibson, you won't fit.

And I stitched a heart.

and some other things

It's going to get cold again (snow probably) so blanket mending seemed like a good idea...my assistants were up for the job.

I have two wool blankets that Mom gave me that had moth holes.

  She thought I could do something with them.

I washed them and put them on my bed. :)

They got washed a lot when I had dogs so they are pretty much felted at this point and one has some pretty big tears.  The torn one was cut into strips for mending holes in the other and to extend the length of the blanket that is still in pretty good shape.

I have plans to do more with this blanket but this will do for now. 

The other project I am getting some assistance with is knitting the sleeve on a sweater. 

They did let me make this star without help (directions here).

It's a little fussier than the last star I shared earlier and is going to take a bit of practice. 

And there was one more batch of ink:

 

Made without assistance on the porch.

A real to-do for tomorrow:  clean up the studio (porch) before everything freezes...

a few firsts

Not a lake (I am not quite there yet), but pigment. 

First orange of the year. 

I will probably dry the peel for cooking. 

Something new to fold.

Directions here.

I practiced with magazine pages but I am imagining these with all sorts of paper.

in a way these are all field notes

Yesterday's lunch break...cloud watching.

It feels like fall. 

It feels good, cooler. Just a little rain this morning.

The yellow shirt went into the walnut vat.  Yellow from the home garden, walnuts from the work garden.

A more wearable color. 

I am stitching up the sides now and considering a touch of the yellow somewhere.

Two new books:  Lab Girl by Hope Jahren and Wild Textiles by Alice Fox.

(How many books can I read at one time?)

Feedback Friday's presentation today was by Alice Fox.  For the first time I decided to watch it in "real time."  It was a great presentation and I have plans!  Tomorrow I am going to gather bindweed to save for a basket.  For today, I twined a flyer that was in the mail into paper yarn. Twined paper makes a great cat toy.

And then there was this, late afternoon...

There isn't supposed to be rain for the next 10 days.  The crocus will be beautiful as long as there isn't a downpour. I need to water.

Sunrise: 6:49 AM  Sunset: 7:20  

 

Took a little break from these but planning on working on them more this weekend.

I want to start some clouds.

recycle (redone)

This was originally posted with other words.

And then I read the news.

And so... something quieter. 

Still in progress.

Testing out a Threadcrumb moon for a sail.

Now reading: A Sideways Look at Clouds by Maria Mudd Ruth.  Another rabbit hole for me...  It's been on my shelf for awhile; something in Orwell's Roses made me think it needed to be next.

A long time favorite song of mine came to mind too, Kate Bush, Cloudbusting. Probably reminded by the fact that Running Up the Hill is in the news...

Today's clouds will not be tomorrow's.

It's supposed to rain.

 

 

 

something new

As soon as the class was listed I knew I wanted to sign up, Paper Mache Sculpture.  It probably won't use up as much of my scrap paper as I want but it will help.  I have lots of plans for more and have already started on a boat.