Chop Wood Carry Water Find String

Today I did laundry before I ran out of clothes and before temperatures get into the high 90sf, when I won't want to put on the dryer.

Then I made a gallon of laundry liquid because now I was completely out of it. 

Then I got on with my Band! As you see, this is from the cover of the band book and has been the goal. When I started seems like ages but it's only a couple of weeks ago, I wondered if I could get to that degree of competency. It's a cover band, you might say.

It's working out pretty well. This is a traditional Sami band. Here's where the loom is good. 

I can easily work just one motif then leave it, more easily than unhitching the backstrap. This motif is 22 picks (lines) long so it's good to rest regularly. It stays right where it is till I get back to it.

And now despite my saying I don't have to find uses, a couple of bands have found uses, as you see.

Here's a terrific tutorial from Ash, where she demonstrates hand stitching very well. What I like most is that she knows the difference between blanket stitch and buttonhole stitch. My people! 

Most self taught, even school taught, learners don't, and they haven't learned the different functions of the two stitches. I've even been told it doesn't matter.

To an experienced hand sewer, it's like saying to a carpenter that a claw hammer and a ballpeen are the same thing. Anyway, I'm happy in the presence of an expert who knows what's what.

About the string. Gary was just over. In search of green string. Which I provided. 

Anyone fearing he'd be gone need not. The move yesterday was just the breakables. In two weeks the bigger stuff goes. Meanwhile carloads of boxes are moving. Also carloads of houseplants, hence the string.  If he's moved by late June I think that's a good estimate.

Meanwhile stand by with string.

Happy day everyone, bands, socks, string, it's all good, sez Ted and Big Ursy and Pony and Ursula