Yesterday I started hand stitching this. Only the zipper and thread were new.
First time I've put a zipper in and actually enjoyed the process.
I filled it up with first aide supplies and tossed in my work bag.
If it goes well there will be more.
Directions here (because sometimes those recommendations
can be helpful).
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
Grace asked me to find the first post for my GOOD enough COVID 19 quilt. It's been a little over two years since it was started.
Thinking about that.
I was hoping to be able to make one square a week...that didn't happen for the most part. There were periods of time when I was distracted by other projects.
There were times when I was distracted by everything that Covid has brought to our world.
The top is fairly close to done but a few more squares are needed to get to the 6 foot by 6 foot size I want, the recommended distance for social distancing.
Today I cut up the last of my cloth masks for the block I made today. When I need a mask I use what is recommended and is, unfortunately, disposable.
After cutting some more strips, with some assistance I stitched a block today....
Sew
Flip
Snuggle a cat & move a cat.
Repeat.
And then go outside to make a tiny little video showing how I am cutting the strips.
There really is no rhyme or reason when I pick out strips for each square, just whatever appeals at the moment. I do sort by size a bit as one goal is to use up scraps.
Hope that helps Grace. :)
I was tidying up a stack of things and found a can of paint...the blue used in my living room. Wondering if there was something inside, I opened it and found about a cup of paint. So I grabbed a paintbrush and finished the corner I hadn't painted blue in the living room and then did the trim on two windows.
It is safe to say that I paint with more enthusiasm than talent. My favorite applicator is a sponge or a rag...what was used on the window trim.
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.
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.
Spent most of yesterday sitting on the front porch stitching and reading Orwell's Roses.
The brown material (walnut) and blue (fresh indigo) thread I dyed. The blue and brown was done by someone my mom knows.
Drank lots of water with lemon and mint.
Yesterday morning I spent a couple hours working on my GOOD Enough COVID 19 quilt.
This isn't the way it ended up but rather a practice run at what 6 feet by 6 feet would look like. Makes me think of a path.
I need 12 to 14 more blocks.
Which means it will be made from 36 to 48 blocks.
That makes me think of years, 3 or 4?
I am leaning towards 36 blocks, with strips of fabric along the sides to make the 6 foot by 6 foot measurement.
Another practice run, it's really lap quilt size at the moment.
I had a random thought awhile ago, that it might be strange to sleep under and use a quilt named and created in response to a pandemic.
I've decided it's not.
This quilt is mostly about living and celebrating what we can and protection.
It's about caring, which is a form of mending and a form of healing.
It's about life, which is really, mostly...complicated and messy.