Everything Under the Sun Was in Tune

All that you touch

All that you see

All that you taste

All you feel

And all that you love

And all that you hate

All you mistrust

All you save

And all that you give

And all that you deal

And all that you buy

Beg borrow or steal

And all you create

And all you destroy

And all that you do

And all that you say

And all that you reap

And everyone you meet

And all that you spite

And everyone you fight

And all that is now

And all that is gone

And all that’s to come

And everything under the sun is in tune,

When the sun is eclipsed by the moon.

Book Corner 2024.16

by V. E. Schwab

It was a good story. I just wish it could have been told more succinctly. There were just way, way too many scenes of Addie going about her day and surprise surprise! suddenly! why, it’s a visit from Luc. AGAIN. And they engage in the exact same non-scintillating banter, AGAIN.

Beadideas

Ecco Giardino

Behold the garden, in all its glory!!!!!!!!

Then This Happened

No Better Ideas

And in lieu of knitting, at meetings, I’m weaving in the ends of this little piece. Maybe I’ll make a sachet for Mother’s Day. M-i-L would like that. I have no better ideas for it.

Just Bead It

I thought maybe I’d take up beading again. All this ‘color theory’ I’m experimenting with, with my magic markers and difficult sheep. Maybe I could make some cool creative beading patterns.

But first practice. Get back in the swing of it.

It’s Work

Life is not a victory march.

It’s not one-and-done.

Not Wasting Time, Oh No

A “Difficult Sheep” illustrated by Sarah Rosedahl

No, no, I’m not wasting time coloring in a coloring book, I’m LEARNING about COLOR THEORY. Here I am appyling principles of dark/medium/light value, with little to no attention to hue. On the left we end up with a very interesting combo which I like and never would have thought to put together on purpose! On the right we examine using all one hue in different values.

Ta Da!

The “winter project” is really hardly late at all, given how it looks outside.

To recap.

The warp was yarn purchased at the Sheep & Wool Fair in the fall, and dyed by me in blue & green using Greener Shades.

The weft is handspun, obviously spun by me, 100% home-processed mohair, and also dyed by me. Part of it is the same blue & green as the warp, and part is a rusty color inspired by the “red dog” baby bison we saw in Yellowstone last year. The green was inspired by the sagebrush and the blue was inspired by the sky.

It was woven on my little toy rigid heddle loom in my favorite pattern – I’ve used this pattern a lot. I like it because, viewed at the right angle, what you see is slightly 3-D diamonds formed by the warp threads. Not the angle captured here.

When I saw how very subtle the blue and green were together, at first I was unhappy. “Why did I even waste my time making these stripes nobody is going to notice?” But turns out they are just noticeable enough.