It's fun to combine the colors, trying not to look at the cloth as my favorite this or that but just as lights and darks. I tried it with a dark center, but didn't like it.
Sunday, August 30, 2009
values quilt
No, not family values or morals type values but color type values. Lights and darks. I found a tutorial here and decided it might just help gnat brain to focus. Lots of small steps and quick results.
It's fun to combine the colors, trying not to look at the cloth as my favorite this or that but just as lights and darks. I tried it with a dark center, but didn't like it.
It's fun to combine the colors, trying not to look at the cloth as my favorite this or that but just as lights and darks. I tried it with a dark center, but didn't like it.
Saturday, August 29, 2009
fall
I was going to call this post "autumn" to sound more sophisticated, but fall is more appropriate. We went from a 3 month burn ban due to dry weather to flooding and erosion due to torrential rain. I heard reference to a typhoon today...We fell into autumn.
Ages ago I did an on line dye project with a group from Delphi. We all dyed a rainbow of fabric with a set formula adding a little more of each color to the dye bath for each next color. It wasn't bright primaries. I made a simple quilt top to display the fabric then folded it up and forgot about it. Today when I was looking for fabric for another color based quilt I found it. It's bigger than I thought, with an additional border, it's ready to be sandwiched and stitched into an actual quilt.
I kind of like it but a border will make it so that middle strip of red to purple doesn't run away off the edge. Wow. It was so long ago that both Mom and Dad were alive when I did the dye project and I was living in my favorite if decaying apartment in Juneau. Huh.
Ages ago I did an on line dye project with a group from Delphi. We all dyed a rainbow of fabric with a set formula adding a little more of each color to the dye bath for each next color. It wasn't bright primaries. I made a simple quilt top to display the fabric then folded it up and forgot about it. Today when I was looking for fabric for another color based quilt I found it. It's bigger than I thought, with an additional border, it's ready to be sandwiched and stitched into an actual quilt.
I kind of like it but a border will make it so that middle strip of red to purple doesn't run away off the edge. Wow. It was so long ago that both Mom and Dad were alive when I did the dye project and I was living in my favorite if decaying apartment in Juneau. Huh.
Monday, August 24, 2009
harvest
I took the buckets off of one of the potato plants today. Here they are back in June, one bucket deep and looking nice and healthy. The one in the back is the one that's now a pile of Yukon gold potatoes.
Geez, the grass was green in June. It's black and brown now with late season sprouts coming up now that it's finally raining. Black grass is really ugly.
Here they are, my first potatoes. Ever. It sort of freaked me out to have them actually appear in the pile of soil. It's been a tough summer for cool weather crops, too hot for months and suddenly rainy as hell. I was afraid the plants were going to rot with out making potatoes, but here they are. Food. I think I might just do it again next year. Isn't that what planting a garden is about, giving hope, thinking ahead and doing it again, but just a little better?
Geez, the grass was green in June. It's black and brown now with late season sprouts coming up now that it's finally raining. Black grass is really ugly.
Here they are, my first potatoes. Ever. It sort of freaked me out to have them actually appear in the pile of soil. It's been a tough summer for cool weather crops, too hot for months and suddenly rainy as hell. I was afraid the plants were going to rot with out making potatoes, but here they are. Food. I think I might just do it again next year. Isn't that what planting a garden is about, giving hope, thinking ahead and doing it again, but just a little better?
Sunday, August 9, 2009
normal weather for now
It's finally cooled off a lot, back to 50's and light rain...like a good summer day in Haines. Inspiring enough to get back to the bead table where this fine gentleman waits for me. He's a scientific replica of an adult male skull I got ages ago in Ketchikan at the Ray Troll store. I was still working on the tour boats at the time so 130 bucks for a life sized skull didn't seem outrageous. He's been my traveling companion for a bunch of moves in and out of storage and various houses and apartments but I still haven't given him a name.The new bead project is a smaller fish called a stickleback. A 3 spined stickleback to be precise. When the tide is really high, parts of the golf course where we walk most days floods and these wee fish get washed up in to the grass. There was one in a shrinking puddle one day, I either gave him a heart attack or he survived the sweaty-palmed run from the puddle to the stream. I have this idea that he was a little shook up when he hit the water and totally confused as to how he ended up in that stream instead of the one he came from!
Sunday, August 2, 2009
fair hair
I got fair hair at the Southeast Alaska State Fair this weekend! Alaska is soooo big (how big is it?) we have more than one state fair. This is the smaller, more funky version of the agricultural fair in Palmer where they have those big-ass cabbages. I sold some stuff, volunteered a couple of days and got fair hair...in other words the hermit participated! ...and had some good fun. Hermit participation is a very good thing. Fair hair is a pretty good thing and chatting with a really interesting guy until all hours of the morning is REALLY good!If any of my 5 followers are voters in Alaska, time to jump on the Bob Poe bandwagon (see Mudflats for more info on this potential governor dude). He was here for the fair, he campaigned some, bought coffee at the Market and had the patience to stand in the really long (local brew) beer line yesterday! Bob Poe for governor!
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