Weaverly

A UFO Comes Home

This yardage was languishing on my sewing table for months, and I couldn't stand looking at it any more. Time to finish it.

I cut it in half, put two selvedges together with a flat-felled seam, and voilà, a new tablecloth.

I am enjoying the humor of it and wondering why I didn't get around to finishing it sooner. 

And miracle of miracles, I was even able to find the draft in my project notebook:


Well, not exactly. I only used the point twill treading portion for the tablecloth.  That gave it a textured stripe effect.

But here's another piece from the same warp, in this case with the block treadling:

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In the Department of Books, I finished reading E.H.'s A Farewell to Arms.

 

Fringe Benefits

The gray warp is all woven and cut off. This morning I sat on the back porch and tied fringes. 

The paperback I am using as a weight is the first one that came to hand, a weighty tome from my cookbook shelf. The New York Cookbook was recommended to me when I was researching the best recipes for a NY style Jewish rye bread, which some in the North call corn bread.

Apparently the term "corn bread" in this context is not the Southern style made with mostly corn meal, but a dense rye bread with a little corn meal, and a good sour flavor. 

In her introduction to the recipe, Molly O'Neill quotes Terry Kornick, " My mother learned to make this from her brother, Izzy, who immigrated to New York from Poland, where he had been in the shoe business." 

That's what I love about this cookbook. It's full of little personal gems. Out of print, you can still find plenty of used copies. 

And now a closer look at the scarf. 

And if that's just too much orange for you, here's a little purple from yesterday evening's jaunt to the lakeside to see the iris in bloom.

Mother's Day Around Here

A gift of flowers. It's hard to take a picture here without a loom photobombing. 

My favorite lunch (hey, I get to choose today!).

A visit from the grandkids. 

A walk around the lake.

An astonishing rhododendron bush.

This ingenious bridge is the work of Furman student Isaiah Ives. It's constructed using K'nex building toys.

Irises everywhere.

And back in the studio, I dug into my new supply of lyocell and started a piece on an interleaved threading draft. 

I hope you're enjoying your weekend.