Knitting and me
I am coming to an end of this shawl I started knitting in September. It has been time-consuming. When I started it, I didn’t know how long it would take. I thought – maybe...
Category: Making
A place of trust
It’s Thanksgiving. I’m cooking a pecan pie. A little later, will roast squash and brussels sprouts, make mashed potatoes and sweet potatoes. We are going over to a cousins’ house. Even so, I cook...
Wrapping some things up
There’s a good feeling of completion coming from this matched set of little books with onion-skin dyed covers. It was my friend Jaye’s idea to make a book like this with sewn-over straps binding...
Red onion skins
I’m going to make a second sewn-over-straps book. The first used yellow onion skins on the cover, this one will use red. I procrastinated dyeing this paper because the dyeing process all seemed like...
November invites
I just wanted to acknowledge the beginning of November. And send my love. Not too many words right now. A swirl of kitchen, garden, family. And mountains (hills).
Sweetfern and onion skin
I tried some bundle-dyeing with some of the goldenrod cloth and some paper for an upcoming book project. The cloth turned out okay but I really like the papers. This is a bit of...
Yellows and greens
The goldenrod dyeing is done. Let’s just say that and put that equipment away. Only the “seaside” variety of goldenrod is still in glorious bloom. I bought this at a plant sale last year,...