Techniques, and working with naturally dyed fiber
Joyellen and Caleb always prayed for their bread. These two precocious bilingual children belonged to the director of the study abroad program in Mexico that I attended during the fall semester of 2005. My mom used to make whole wheat bread for our family almost every week, and as I learned from her example, I … More Co-Creativity
The insanity continues – with the open house coming up in just 8 days, several things still sitting in dyepots, nothing reskeined or tagged, and various administrative crap to carry out, I try to keep working. If for no other reason than if I stop, I start thinking about how much there is left to … More ‘Till the day I dye
Things I learned within the last 24 hours: 1. Bean juice left out for three days makes your kitchen smell like fish. 2. When you’re dyeing one skein two colors with a long-immersion dipping technique… do the lighter color first. 3. The natural tannins in black walnuts decompose as the walnuts rot, turning their dye … More An NFP Theme Song
Since I’ve last written, I’ve almost finished one thing I can’t tell you about but gotten so bored that I cast on another thing I can’t tell you about. Realizing that this second thing was almost the same as the first, I cast on yet another thing I can’t tell you about, and quit procrastinating … More Tuesday, October 27, 2009
I have an inordinate, unreasonable, and inexplicable affection for pokeberries. I love their perfectly smooth, round, replete, purpleish-black berries. I love the little click sound they make when you pull a perfectly ripe one off its stem. I love the fuscia color they stain my hands, and how [relatively] easily it washes off. Right now, … More Pokeberry Therapy
Phew. So I’ve finally recovered from life enough that my laundry is actually folded. This is saying something… it had been piling up in a major way, and the only reason it wasn’t covering the dining room table is because we happen to be rather attached to eating off it. Heck, the only reason it’s … More TLAs
It’s time for the reveal. Over the past several days, I’ve been goofing around with dyestuffs. (I bought rubber gloves this time.) So far I’ve collected and frozen about eight gallons of these: (Pokeberries) and a decent-sized bag of black walnuts. As a result, my kitchen looks like this (note the various colors adorning the … More What I’ve been up to
A few things you should probably know about me: (a) I am obsessive. When I get it into my head that I want to do something, sleeping is a challenge until I get it out of my system. (b) I am dangerous. It takes a very small amount of research for me to feel I … More In which my fingers turn black
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