On a whim, I went to the Alemany Farmer’s Market this morning, in search of duck eggs, largish Meyer lemons, and other interesting exotics. I was considering making candied lemon peel, just to see what it would be like, and when I went to the place where I found the citrons, I found Seville oranges [...]
Remember, back a couple months ago, when work was verrry slow and I had lots of free time? And when I said this would undoubtedly have to be paid for later? Well, it is now later, and what was slow is now a panic flood as we scramble to get our product out the door [...]
In case you are wondering what I’ve been up to, I’ve been dyeing pounds and pounds of yarn. Here’s what I’ve dyed so far, draped across my long-suffering AVL warping wheel: This is 3.3 kg or just about 7 lbs of yarn! So I have been quite busy. The red, incidentally, is actually a beautiful [...]
Yesterday, out of the blue, I got an email from an old, long-lost friend, who (after some six years of silence) looked me up on the Internet. When I say “old friend”, I mean really old friends: we were best friends in middle school, damn near inseparable, who went off to different high schools and [...]
The woven sample for the cashmere-silk coat came out nice, but not quite heavy enough to produce the warmth I’d like. So I went looking for some nice warm fabric to put between the outer and inner layers to make it warmer. I wanted something fairly drapey (so as not to interfere with the “hand”), [...]
