Artist books, linen squares and Misfits

Yesterday's Misfits came, without tomatoes, they'd already warned me, maybe a heatwave casualty

The plums are tart, probably will work in a cake,  until they ripen.

I really like the wholewheat pita bread, my current go to for breakfast. 

And since the shoulder, though showing signs of improvement, is not ready for close work, I did a different thing I've been meaning to for ages, not too demanding.

I organized the art postcards my honorary granddaughter sends regularly on various themes. At one a week, they add up amazingly.  

They're all  precious keepers so it's about how to enjoy them.

Accordion books are my answer, to display them. But first to sort.  Botanicals, Inuit, other Canadian, Japanese woodblock prints,  Pantone colors, and more,  and the really spectacular silkworm cases.

I may keep the Pantone cards loose, so as to put different colors side by side as a visual game. As you know, colors change perceptually depending on what other colors are next to them.

But the silkworm casings, mounted on heavy paper as folded notecatds,  I interleaved and tied with a piece of handmade and dyed daylily cord (!) as a kibd of sculpture.

The other artist books will happen when I get more tape to attach them. Meanwhile they're organized and ready.

And, my inner maker still needing a little something, I did a bit more stitching on those linen square samples.

This is another interesting experience in color, and I was amazed to find I could thread my needle and stitch small without glasses, wheeee!! Just as well, since my glasses aren't a lot of use right now.

Another hot day today, plants watered early, Rosenfelt audiobook loaded, cool food.

Happy day everyone, and I hope your air conditioning works if you're in the heatwave as most of us are, here another heat index in the 100s, and that if you don't have air conditioning, you manage somehow.

Photo AC 

About whitlow grass and other gripping matters

 I did more study on my whitlow grass, thinking it was maybe named for the discoverer, as plants often are. 

But I found it was once thought to be a remedy for whitlows, painful swellings on the sides of my fingers as a kid. Really miserable, painful even to try to handle anything. 

Turns out they're caused by one of the herpes viruses, the kind that cause blisters in your mouth. So I doubt whitlow grass could help, unless maybe reducing the pain.

Anyway, edible food is also appearing, hairy bittercress, lovely tangy addition to salads. Rabbits like this too, so I can't take too long before I pick my share.

And nonedible daffodil leaves are up, too. I'm told that the juice of daffodil stems is a good glue, though I haven't tested this assertion.

The weekend entertainment was meh. The Game of Kings came highly recommended by a friend, however the library yielded only print, which I requested anyway. Then found the font size is too small for me to read for more than a para or two. Oh well.

Then, another recommended book; all kinds of writers whose work I like thought Annabelle Gurwitch hilariously funny and on point. And I found her frantic rather than funny, self critical rather than rueful. I like a terser style. 

Not suggesting you don't read them, but just not my jam right now. You may love either or both, just sayin.

My DVD is a detective series set in Australia, wonderful scenery and sets and acting, witty dialog, the detective a former police detective who inherited enough money to enable her to leave the Force. The computer whiz sidekick is a young woman of color who can do indepth research while gaming at the same time, easy!

I do recommend this one. I watched the first episode, and was a bit exhausted by the pace. Nonetheless it's definitely worth watching if you haven't already.

Then here I am, smugly grinning in my lovely incredibly comfortable vest. It's become my go to. I was even glad it was colder today so I could wear it to the library.

There my friend the librarian from the knitting group admired it, having seen it when it was still being spun.

And presented me with a pack of linen samples she wasn't using. Since the vest was basically made from roving ends, same idea, using scraps of beautiful material to make something.

The pieces are about 3"x3", 60 in all, and have labels identifying colors on the backs. 

So I had a playtime setting them out, then sorting into color families, like kindergarten. 

And here's where I'm open to suggestions: what to make? I have some ideas, but blogistas may have better ones. Linen takes up dye so well, very evenly. And I'm familiar with the ins and outs of handling linen.

Let me know if you can suggest a project. This will be hand stitching as all my stitching is. It will probably need a quarter inch seam allowance all round, creating a 2 1/2" square. Times 60.

There! Ideas welcome.