Mine subbed mixed greens for bell pepper, curry leaves for bay leaf, diced tomatoes for tomato sauce, Better than Bouillon for vegetable stock, black beans for kidney beans and brown jasmine rice for Spanish white rice. It made four meals and was really good. The Better than Bouillon was great, thank you Sandra and Mary for talking about it.
Here's where the cotton seeds are as of today
Then on to the Tuesday knitting group, and all kinds of interesting stuff going on.
Toad got his bathing suit, needs some finishing, so this is a try on
Then she learned the lucet, two views. She caught on fast, as did another participant who tried it. Both now fancy owning one, so Beka should pay me a commission.
Chat ranged widely, over travel in India, driving in the mountains, Sikkim, building a trebuchet in the basement, the trebuchet at Les Baumes that the public can fire, music, quilting, tai chi, cotton seeds, shoelaces, No Kings, Earth Day, Stand up for Science, shoulders, orthopedics, physical therapy, and much more.
Home to Textiles and Tea and weaver Emerson Croft, pronoun they. A teacher/director of the weaving program at Berea College Kentucky, the work skills college which teaches crafts with output to sell to help support the program, they're endlessly inventive and playful.
Emerson explains they have no minds eye, that ability to visualize, so the creative work happens in the making. And humor gets in all over.
Being non-binary, Emerson first had an impact as a student on the baby blanket design from the college weaving program. All pink and blue and they suggested more inclusive colors, which the weaving studio now routinely uses and sells.
I've included a bit about the college and its sales aspect, artisanal small production items
Emerson as a student with the inclusive baby blankets
This was a great episode with a gifted thinker and artisan, and I wonder if I can get a broom from Berea. I can use one.
Happy day everyone, mine was full! Roger that, sez Ted and Big Ursy and Pony and Ursula
