HOT
Pottery class today and raku. Remembered the camera, girl reporter on the story.
Raku kiln, top off
Leslie handling the high tech stuff.
Yeah, pretty much what it looks like – a blowtouch sitting on some bricks. It’s lit, btw.
This is what 1800 degrees F looks like. Camera lens fog.
We’re going in!
Pot show and tell tomorrow. Stay tuned.
Come on, baby, light my fire. Try to set the night on fire. Jim Morrison
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WHERE’VE I BEEN?
Since getting the sewing machine up and running a couple of weeks ago, I’ve had a difficult time staying away from it. There’s always a new project that beckons me to at least try it and once on that ride, I’m powerless to stop until I’ve a) mastered whatever it is or b) given up for the moment because I just. can’t. figure. it. out. and am frustrated nearly to tears. All this means that I’ve let a couple of things go in the last week or so, mainly stuff like sweeping or vacuuming, washing dishes or unloading the dishwasher. It’s now oozed over into blog time but I’m here this morning to change that. With that said, here’s a look at my newest obsession hobby,
Up until now, all my sewing stuff was thrown into a plastic bin, which was to be avoided at all costs. If I was to be serious about learning to sew, I needed to upgrade my kit and found these sweet baskets at Hobby Lobby yesterday. With everything sorted and untangled, I feel like a real, live seamstress!
My first FO on the machine –
Just don’t ask how long it took.
POTS
Tomorrow’s Monday which means pottery class. Yay! Raku tomorrow!
If we wait for the moment when everything, absolutely everything is ready, we shall never begin. Ivan Turgenev
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A BUMP IN MY BLOG
We lost our internet Tuesday evening and all day yesterday. Very frustrating. I’m way more invested in the internet than I thought. No e-mail, no google, no blog, no nothin’. I see if I ever decide to go ‘net free, I’ll need to be weaned off, no way I’m going cold turkey! It comforts me to know, though, that I’m in the same boat with probably a zillion others. 😉 Oh, I almost forget to tell you the reason. Our neighbor was having fax issues, ATT came out, fixed his fax feed and didn’t bother reconnecting what he had to disconnect. Jeez.
SOFT STUFF
The alpaca roving that I ordered from Dyeing for Color finally arrived and has exceeded all my expectations. It’s like spinning a cloud. I’ve knitted with alpaca yarn but have never actually seen and been able to fondle roving. I keep petting it.
These babies are staying in their bags until two seconds before I spin so I can continue to marvel at how soft and clean they are! I’m beginning to feel that their destiny is to be sock yarn.
ON THE NEEDLES
No knitting to post today. Oh yeah, it’s out there, lots of WIPs, very few FOs, just not quite camera ready and besides that, I’d have to go through the house, gathering up each room’s project. Yeah, I work on different projects in different rooms. Don’t judge me 🙂
POT PROJECT
When we had that little snafu with the internet, I was in the middle of posting a pottery WIP so I had to postpone until today. This is a molded bowl and I can’t wait to get it out of the damp box and get it out of the bowl mold.
It still needs some work, as you can tell. That may be a good project for tomorrow.
Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning. Gloria Steinem
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