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...]

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...]

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...]

We held our weekly stitch fest on Saturday last week. Cecilia had an eye appointment on Friday that she'd made months ago. We were happy to have Betty join us again. We had a surprise visitor - Mary Brent - who dropped by to purchase two felted Siamese fighting fish I had made several years ago. She was in time for tea and gingerbread men made by Cecilia. Betty brought hand … [Read more...]

Cecilia, Rachel and I were discussing artists yesterday - or rather who among us was the most artistic. I said I considered myself a craftsman, not an artist. Something just won’t let me go there - lack of a degree in fine arts being the most obvious reason. Rachel, who has done garden design and now designs and makes jewelry, was also a little hesitant about the word. … [Read more...]