Indigo dyeing
Dyeing with indigo has always been mysterious. I’d love to have a little vat at home that I could understand and work with. But it’s intimidating. There seem to be so many options and...
Category: Making
Blustery
A good day to stay in and work on my projects. The third crewel piece is coming along. It’s not turning out the way I planned, because I started to free-style with the colors....
March blows in
A couple of Sam’s cousins, his sister, Sam and me – we’ve been making a fivesome a few weekends now for hiking and a meal out somewhere along the coast. Snack, brunch, lunch, whatever...
Getting it together
I’m leaving tomorrow on vacation for 10 days. No, I don’t need a vacation. I live in “Vacation Land” and I’m retired. But my neighbor really wanted to go to Mexico with us, to...
The radiant heart
This is done. Something to look at, something to feel.
Sketch journal Oct, Nov, Dec 2023
I’m getting tired of my review and there are a lot of boring pages in the last quarter of 2023. But here are some favorites. I find this collage so lighthearted, with the wing...
Sketch journal Sept 2023
In September, I finally figured out how to deal with the black pages – collage some color on them! I started a practice of picking out three or four scraps of paper the night...