Today since handsome Son is visiting I probably won't get to see Textiles and Tea.
So I thought, before February's gone, I'd do a salute to a wonderful quilter, historian, writer, teacher , retired aerospace engineer, yes, that's the field she got her doctorate in, African American woman.
This is all on YouTube. Go there. She's brilliant.
Meanwhile in a humbler context, I found myself in mid-winnow doing what you'd expect when a lover of fiber finds roving she'd forgotten, which goes nicely with the new sari silk roving
On the spindle is the new sari silk, spun.
And today's winnowing is yet to happen but it's decided on.
Meanwhile, the Together cookbook is in action. Page 77, Baked fish with tahini and pomegranate.
As usual, substitutions happened. Tilapia was the only available fish, and no tahini in the house. I don't like tahini, some sweet edge to it. (I pretended not to see the pomegranate seeds, but they're just a garnish.)
I also don't like peanut butter, but it's okay as a substitute for tahini in my hummus.
So i figured why not here, too. And I have no pine nuts, but since they're just about a bit of crunch, the peanut butter being crunchy, that worked. I did have actual parsley, you'll be glad to know I didn't sub hairy bittercress, though it's growing and I could.
The book has started acquiring notes
And here's the theater of cooking
This makes two meals and a whole fillet leftover for kedgeree or fishcakes or something.
And the sauce -- whoa Nelly, was that good. I ended up spooning a bit over the broccoli, too. Definitely making that again. Good over salmon, I'd guess, and green vegetables.
So, all fed and ready, I got to work on the artwork head. What looked like a mask yesterday is in fact the face, and it will be attached to a head as soon as I build one.
I woke this morning wondering how to do it. I don't have paper suitable to make a head shape, never get newspapers, recycled all the packing paper, what to do.. then I remembered messing about in the roving, noting some not good for spinning, could use that.
Then another thought smote me -- duh, batting. Lightweight, could work. I have the stuffing insides of a sofa cushion which collapsed years ago, to use. But how to make it hold up as I build..yet another thought, use tissue box found in recent winnowing. Yes!
Plenty of thoughts, so I've started.