At long last Rachel, Cecilia and I were ready to spend a day dyeing what we've been working on for months. It seemed the perfect day - sunny, a slight breeze. Only problem was the 100% humidity. As I worked to get the vat ready, put up the clothes line, the table, and filled various buckets with water, it clouded over - and I thought, this is great. We wouldn't get … [Read more...]
Spring Arden Artisans’ Trail, June 5, 2021
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...]
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...]
The more the merrier
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...]