Saturday was cold, later rainy, not a bit springlike, so there was a large bowl of spaghetti with spicy plant-based meatballs.
Hot peppers, onions, butter and tomato paste, blended with diced tomatoes, made a great sauce, and it was all very welcome. Blueberries and yogurt for dessert.
The main good thing about the day was the number of art ideas jumping at me. This is related to sending artworks to good homes. It leaves space for new ideas which unfailingly show up
One was how to complete the fabric page. I had a piece on the wall that I've been thinking about deconstructing for ages, and realized the embroidered motifs, natural dyed, stitched onto net, were a natural to overlay on the silk stars. It's about transparency. And yes, it's political. Art is.
So here, deconstructed, is a lovely piece of shibori dyed linen, several freestanding embroidered works, and cheesecloth which is new and clean and might get into the kitchen. The colored thread in the embroideries is also natural dyed.
And here's where a couple of motifs found a new home.
Then I plan to make a hussif, using some cheap and cheerful cotton printed pieces I found among the stars, round up my needles from various ragged needle books, and upstairs, and make places in it for my scissors and useful stitching tools.
Also I'm going to ditch the nasty pink plastic project bag I've been using for knitting, and make something more interesting.
All this happening on an otherwise unpromising day.
My mail-in primary ballot arrived, where I get to triumphantly vote for Andy Kim for Senate. This will help send a decent man to Washington to replace a shameful one.
It's also a great effyew to the completely inept and inexperienced governor's wife who tried to run, and couldn't get arrested despite having all the party bosses working it.
And who inadvertently helped abolish the infamous county Line, the very ballot position advantage the party bosses tried to leverage in her favor. What an own goal. Kim pursued his lawsuit to abolish it and won.
She's trying to forget she ever tried, total humiliation, well deserved. Someone who has never run for anything, anything, school board, HOA, library board, wanting one of the three major key elected offices in the state? Please.
Happy day, everyone, you never know what good things might happen.
