I was supposed to load this photo several weeks ago; you can tell that my summer priorities do not include the computer 🙂 I can’t believe how fast those plants grow!
I worked at home one day, and this was my office. Wish I could do this every day! Giz loved it; I even wore him out, a very difficult thing to do.
I will post some project photos in a couple more days; I’m getting things ready for the fair and don’t want to put anything online ’til after the judging on Sunday.
Posted in Garden 2007
Peas, peas, peas! They started blooming a few days ago, and now the pods are erupting! Mmmm…. fresh peas! The string beans are blooming, but no beans yet. The boxes are wonderful; I wish I could have gotten them set up sooner. The height makes them easy to weed, and easy to harvest too. I weed and/or harvest in the mornings, while throwing Gizmo’s tennis ball. He is obsessed, as you can see below, with t-balls, as well as frisbees and sticks.
Gizmo’s focused on his tennis ball and the Chuckit, an essential part of any Labrador Retriever owner’s bin of dog toys. The vegetation in the yard was wet with dew and last night’s rain, so he’s soaking wet.
Posted in Garden 2007
Loose Ends LLC is a… well, it is a store! That sells a little of this and a little of that, for home decorating, arts ‘n crafts, wrapping gifts, and, and… well, take a look and you tell me what it sells! “Items for creative living” is as good a description as I can think of!
There are seashells of all kinds, boxes and bags and ribbons, papier mache boxes and containers. They have shopping bags with moose on them! Which I might have to break down and buy, and would then have a lifetime supply of gift bags.
The Vintage Visions Collection is a huge assortment of images from the past; illustrations and photographs. They’re on paper, but I don’t know why you couldn’t scan the image and print it onto fabric, then embellish it.
And I am just swooning over the variety of ribbons and wrappings – handmade Abaca ribbon (“Abaca fibre, from the banana tree family is a light, airy, open weave textile” It looks awesome fun to play with!) and wrapping, rainbow organza ribbon, silk crepe ribbon, blah, blah, blah… I can see scrunching the ribbons up and embellishing them with stitches, buttons and beads, and attaching them to a crazy quilt.
Anyway, I couldn’t keep this to myself… Loose Ends LLC is downsizing, so lots of stuff is on sale. I’ve been to the bricks ‘n mortar store in Oregon, several years ago, and was overwhelmed with all the neato keeno stuff. It was so fun to wander around and think about what I would do with this or that, and of course I came home with a bagful of stuff to play with.
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Well, I finally added a bunch of new links, too many to link them all in a post, so I’ll just give a quick overview. For most TAST enthusiasts, they’ll pretty much be old hat anyway.
And yes, I have been sewing! Just not posting much. I was up at the Toolik Research Station two weeks ago, and I’ve been barbecuing over the backyard campfire, hiking with Gizmo, and rearranging the cabin. I’m almost done with a chatelaine, a new hat, and I’ve been working like mad on flower postcards for the Georgeson Botanical Garden show and craft market. Yikes! LONG post! enough already!
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wow, I didn’t realize people had been peeking at my Flickr photos – thank you for all the comments!
And Floredepano added me as a contact… I didn’t know you could do that! Go see some of her fun projects – I really like the way she used rickrack and buttons on a chicken picture; there’s also some fun felt projects, a few tutorials for embroidery and quick felt projects, gift wrapping…
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Interweave Press is having a “Hurt Book” Sale! go now! Books with some damage are on sale for bargain bin prices…
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I finally got the current issue of Stitch Magazine and found out that I wasn’t a winner in the Challenge. Boo hoo! But I am much more distressed by the fact that I haven’t gotten my hat back, nor has Stitch Magazine contacted me about the hat. It was an awesome learning experience, and I’d really like the hat back so I can make the next one.
Update: I received word yesterday (7/7/07) that my hat will be on it’s way to Alaska next week!
It was definitely an experiment. I haven’t done any needleweaving since the early ’80’s, and I’ve never used anything other than embroidery thread for needleweaving. Some of the yarn was horrible to work with! After five sections I finally gave in and couched the last pieces of yarn onto fabric for one section and the brim.
Overall, I’m happy with the hat, even though technically I could have done a much better job. Next time I’d like to incorporate more of the needlewoven bars, and make more of a pattern with them. And I’ve got to figure out how to make a needlewoven brim! I know I could needleweave over a stiff form… a clear plastic one would work… but I’m not sure I like that idea. And I didn’t think to account for the seam allowance on the pattern, and the hat is a little large for my taste, so next time I’ll make it smaller. Using one thread, or no more than two or three threads, will make a much more cohesive hat, rather than the hodgepod this one is.
I am just so disappointed that I didn’t get the hat back in time to enter it in the local fair. I just assumed that “no news is good news”, and I wanted to be surprised by seeing my hat in the magazine. Naive, I know that now! I should have emailed the editor as soon as I read that the winners had been chosen. Then I’d have this hat, and could have started the next hat, and entered this one in the fair. Oh well! Live and learn! Life is just one big classroom for me!
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