just in time!

my first handspun christmas presents!

changed my mind…

blocked out to  a bit over 60 X 6 1/2”

one down

one muffler down, one to go.

just off the needles, 54” X 6” before blocking.  don’t really wanna block before i get the other one done, for which i must spin laceweight of this:

and so that will be my weekend.  next one? in brigadoon!!!!!!!

Flickr Tags: knitting,spinning,brigadoon

sunday morning market

i have done my bit and bought local, not an easy thing to do as everything looks all alike,  but i got this kitchen sculpture, which has possibilities:

now to get in there and mix it up some more, the way it should have been made.  forgive the backsplash wall, en restauro—i recently popped some more tiles off (or rather, i allowed them to remain down when they slid off in the summer humidity) to provide opportunities for further rustication.  thanksgiving week, in a week, is one of the only two weeks i’m here and not teaching during the year, when “everything” must happen.  this year i’m planning on implementing the “40 bags in 40 days” (modified, of course) and completing this kitchen piece, at the least.

Flickr Tags: assemblage,sculpture

the new view from the knitting chair

fall

for some reason, change in the set.

i don’t know that i like it, but it lets me sit in the mitt.  we’ll try it til spring.

today

will be the third day back in tampa isolation.  so far i’ve done all the laundry and swept out the bedroom, bought the few grocery essentials needed to use up what i have and caught up on harry potter dvds.  today:

• make gazpacho from the heirlooms i brought back
• clean bathroom
• make cucumber mint soup for overnight?
• cream of sweet potato for future stock?
• return potter/get king’s speech?

that’s enough necessary doings for one day, i think.  trying not to overcommit as usual and then do none of it.  i threw out four (4) unopened packages of stirfry veggies when i got home:(  the very full garbage gets picked up today, so i can begin again…

brigadoon

for the first time i took few pictures while in brigadoon this summer, and no videos except for goats—despite buying all new equipment just days before i left!!--and wrote almost nothing during my month there.  i guess i’ll just post here a bunch of representative photos of my working life since school let out in june, as there’s no other structure and little volume, but here goes:

 

small wonder i dream of retiring here, hmmm? but i’m back in tampa now.  three weeks left til i resume the plow and i have to remind myself how to sing live here again; so far it’s amounted to flopping on the bed and plugging in. this morning there’s coffee and sunrise, just like brigadoon, but it will grow from there.  it has to: i ran out of here just as soon as school got out over a month ago, and this place looks like it!

 

Flickr Tags: brigadoon,spinning,woodcarving,john c. campbell folk school