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Some things people have sent me recently:
From Laura, this link to a report on textiles from Burgos Cathedral, Spain.
From Cori, a link to a creative use for embroidery: animation. If you browse the archives, there are some lovely skeleton animals too.
From Beth Matney on the MEDTC-DISCUSS e-list: Inlaid Patchwork in Europe from 1500 to [...]

I have little green tomatos! And strawberries! And the black raspberries are starting to shade into pink.
I’m also in the midst of a five-week string of houseguests, and a couple of very large deadlines. And Complex Weavers is Real Soon Now. (Yay, but yikes!)
I keep finding fun things to share with you all, making [...]

We decided not to go to Buffalo this weekend and I’m glad. I’ll miss seeing people, but there was nothing I had to be there for, and I have a lot to do at home.
For one thing, I finished last weekend’s todo list, except that I still haven’t been to the grocery store. Still in [...]

I’ve run out of brightly-dyed skeins to photograph, so I’m forced to show photos of what February really looks like in central Pennsylvania.

February is a dreary gray month here, but the sky was not pitch black when I left work today so there’s hope.
I have some creative and colorful links for your enjoyment.

Leaf-cutting
The Hours of [...]

I survived the week (hooray!) and got everything done (hooray!!!), and am enjoying a three-day weekend (hooray!!!!!). Tomorrow I’m off to Vermont for the week.
I’ve been collecting online museum databases, the good ones with lots of objects online, with photographs and descriptions. The first few are listed here, (and linked from the header if [...]

Remember my bowl of wild grapes, harvested from the rose corner?

The juice spent some time in the freezer, but finally became a very small dish of not-quite-gelled-enough grape jelly.

It maybe more like heavy syrup than jelly, but it tastes awfully good.

Still, I pruned all the vines out of the rosebushes. It was a fun experiment, [...]

My extra-special-bonus-day has turned into an afternoon of playing with string, but mostly of fiddling around on the computer, learning some new things, and organizing whole piles of odds and ends.
I’ve been saving links, and if I post them I don’t need to save them any more. As you might expect, the sciencey stuff [...]

The event was fabulous, thanks to many, many helpful volunteers. Nobody went hungry, and I saw some folks even taking seconds. I’ll put recipes up soon, but not tonight.
Since I’m too tired to do much other than lay around on the couch with the dog and the cat, instead I’ll catch up on some [...]

Real Life Comics today: yarn shops!

Ohhh…. Halloween Poppets! You know, my birthday is nowhere near Halloween, but it could have been…

Probably everyone’s seen this by now. The Skjoldehamn outfit was from a bog body dating to 1050CE or so, found in Norway the 1936. The body was poorly preserved, but the clothes were in fabulous shape. A museum group has [...]