Gardening
Today’s passage from The Dawn of Everything covers new thinking about gardening and the gardeners of the distant past. What if we shifted the emphasis away from agriculture and domestication to, say, botany or...
This cloth is ready to take a rest now. Here it is when I had just a few seams left to stitch. I enjoyed seeing it in folds as I maneuvered the strips into...
Photo taken in abundant sunshine, as the weather report likes to say. I’ve changed the name of the khaki cloth to the garden quilt. It’s almost half done. I’m going to finish stitching the...
Strips hung on orchard fence It’s the end of March. And the last square sewn on these four strips. Time for a ceremony. It really is this gloomy here today. The blueberry bushes are...
A new plan for the khaki cloth. I’m going to double up the strips on the sides. The earlier design had strips horizontally through the upper area, which now feels too constraining. I’m going...
In the morning, I’ve been working on stitching for the khaki cloth components. I’ve finished the eight strips, unless I decide to do a little more stitching on the threadcrumb patches. I’ve noticed both...