Yesterday's Textiles and Tea featured a cheerful, all the textile people are so happy, multi textile person who describes herself as a dabbler. More like a dazzler, with great output from dyeing to spinning, award winning weaving, sashiko embroidery, knitting, enameling, to a serious original study of the fiber from the American bison. Take a look
She's a popular teacher of weaving and spinning, too.
Meanwhile back home, the rug is cut off the warping peg, one end now woven in while I watched Textiles and Tea.
While the cleaners were here yesterday, I read in the library, and went around the square to admire the new fountain, a circular garden with water. It's imaginative.
I picked up my new reading glasses this morning, so that should help with the stitching. I forgot to put them on to write this, though.. new habit to get into.
Here's a quotation from Fresh Water for Flowers
Happy day, everyone! Hope you can see clearly today, in every sense.
very nice circular garden and fountain. I thought it weird when I saw the picture of the rug that you left fringe on only one end but I see there will be no fringe. what are the dimensions of the little rug? Pat Maley seems much like you, a finger in everything.
ReplyDeleteI was showing what I'd got done during textiles and Tea. See yesterday for dimensions. Pat seems like a great person to be compared to, thank you!
DeletePeaches this year from the grocery stores have not been all that great. Juicy seems to have left the building.
ReplyDeleteBeautiful rug!
The peaches are sweet but the texture isn't very good. Also they're starting to go already, so I'll eat them while I can. Not a good year for peaches.
DeleteI do like Ms. Maley's work. The denim jacket work is right up my alley.
ReplyDeleteAre you going to add any other fruit to the peach thing? I'll be interested in seeing how it comes out.
I'm rethinking the peaches, going too fast to cook, but I'm going to make the peach thing at some point with notpeaches of some kind.
DeleteThe rug looks good. I am the owner, mostly, of my own time. It is a luxury. I am overrun with tomatoes.
ReplyDeleteTomatoes are your cockatoos, sought after and expensive in one place, overflowing in another.
DeleteI love that quotation about the luxury of owning one's own time. It's the greatest joy of retirement!
ReplyDeleteMe too debra
DeleteFresh tomatoes ripened on the vine make the best tomato sandwiches
ReplyDeleteI will often just eat them out there while harvesting. Just like an apple
Last year’s tomato harvest wasn’t brilliant. I’m going for smaller types this year hopefully I’ll get a bigger harvest and won’t have to resort to buying a box for preserving
My favorite tomato is Roma plum, prolific, nice to eat raw or cook. The farm grew a bigger variety this year.
DeleteWe’ve begun to harvest tomatoes from our garden. Not much of a crop this year but tasty just the same.
ReplyDeleteAnything home grown and eaten promptly is tasty.
DeleteOwning one's time is a hard thing to get used to after a lifetime of someone else telling one how to spend it. I am slowly getting there.
ReplyDeleteI like your philosophy regarding farm grown (or any grown, really) fruit and veg. As long as it gets used and not sent to landfill which an horrific amount is, as I recently found out after watching a really good documentary on waste.
I think a lot of people have a learning curve about time once it's not dictated by a job or family.
DeleteI am all for using, not wasting.
I like the fountain! And your policy about farm-stand produce seems sound. :)
ReplyDeleteI think you could have got better pictures of the fountain. I needed to be a bit taller.
DeleteA self-described dabbler - methinks that particular moniker suits you as well. I like the thought of being the owner of one's own time. That's something I have unconsiously been doing as I've learned to say no to so many things.
ReplyDeleteAll my pursuits follow logically in various ways. Dabbling is aimless. I would not use that term. I'm surprised she did, so disparaging.
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