Saturday was the third Artisan's Trail - advertised as "spring" but scheduling conflicts pushed it to June 5 - a very hot and muggy day in the mid-90s. At least we were under nice shady trees! Rachel, Cecilia and I again combined forces in my yard to sell jewelry, aprons (as well as small fabric goodies), and shibori-stitched indigo wares. For a hot day, and competition … [Read more...]
Dyeing in the Rain
It's been quite a while since I posted anything. Quite frankly, this pandemic has had me down in the dumps. Studio times have continued with Cecilia, Rachel and Betty through the winter and spring, and that has kept me sane. It is so good to be able to laugh and cry and tell stories - and stitch. I feel like that was all I did was stitch through the winter and early … [Read more...]
My horse goes for a stroll
I haven't posted in a while since I have not been doing as much shibori stitching lately. I've been dealing with my horse, Dan the Man, and trying to figure out what his injury is and how to treat it. Dan has been slightly "off" since late October/early November. First I scheduled a chiropractic treatment (which has worked tremendously in the past), but this time it wasn't … [Read more...]
Catching up on things
The last several weeks have been hectic. I had a show/sale in the yard on Thanksgiving Sunday as part of the Arden Artisans' Trail and yesterday I was in the Sculpture Garden at the Delaware Art Museum for their Winter Festival. The Winter Festival is usually inside the museum. COVID put a stop to that for this year. The museum got permission from the state to issue a … [Read more...]
Sine waves
I’ve been thinking about sine waves lately. Not that I’d ever heard about them until about a week ago when I showed Danny a pattern in Jane Callender’s book, and his automatic response was “that’s a sine wave.” And he proceeded to explain it was a mathematical curve used to graph smooth periodic oscillations over time like the length of daylight hours over the course of a year. … [Read more...]