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Tower of Babel

I've spent the major part of this year on a writing project, which is going very slowly. You might say it's creeping backwards, actually. Today as I was tearing my hair out over it, and getting really stuck and going nowhere, I started playing around with Google Translate. I took the opening paragraph of the project and translated it into Polish, then translated the Polish in to Hungarian, then the Hungarian into Serbian, then the Serbian into Chinese, then the Chinese into Maori, then the Maori into Hebrew, then the Hebrew back into English. 

Suddenly the text had accreted new freshness and meaning, and gave me insights I had not dreamed of. 

Paper for what?
In the early years of my life, I made myself ruined buildings study lamp group. In my opinion, interesting and can score a lot of variety. In the coming years, I am looking for information about knitting, in addition to magazines and laptop group, with short chapters briefly mentioned here, there are a few articles and I can not find a big handveaver available bear it. I laugh, I want to write a book Lampasom Hotel backpack to fill the gap, but this play. I have written many books on knitting, and I know one link to tell, you have to win, even in the mouth, sometimes for several years. But there are other items Hotel Pod Lampasom weave patterns, stripes and jacquard or even prevent, five years ago I got the power cable TC-1. He left jacquard design project design handspun, and the end of a very successful series of journals covering Lampasom longstitch backpack Iardage hotel. But I do bear, I am very happy at the end of last year, Malu'aki bear 16 Seif, who are willing to pray on his own new project. Hotel Pod Lampasom answer.

I don't know how that stuff about knitting got in there. And hotel? What hotel? But I feel much better now.

Slices

People in my neighborhood are being more proactive in the removal of sick trees this year. Our power lines are not buried, and after every winter ice storm we experience power outages from trees falling on the lines. Maybe this year will be different. In any case, my morning walks are full of interesting photo ops from slices of tree. Here are a couple of recently felled examples. 

That's almost as much fun as slicing horizontally into an apple or a cabbage. Try it some time.

Speaking of slices, here's a slice of the wall hanging just beginning in my studio. It's a busy weekend, but if I can manage to weave just one slice a day, I'm happy.

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All work came to a halt while I was waiting for a shipment of new wool/silk blend, but it has arrived, and now it's time for more samples. While I was waiting I reworked the salamanders file, and today I wove another aspect ratio trial. Sometimes the same yarn in a different color weaves up differently. 

The new design will have more black in it, too, but the weave structures remain the same: lampas with basketweave for the primary cloth, and two secondary wefts. Here's a detail. Click.

I've woven this structure many times in various cottons, but the wool/silk really takes it to another level. It feels absolutely delicious, and it's quite supple, too.

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Grids. When you first notice them, suddenly they are everywhere. This is a small part of Catalina's model horse barn. She constructed it of popsicle sticks, thousands and thousands of them, with only a glue gun. Click to enlarge. The amount of telling detail is astounding.

This morning's first look out the kitchen window revealed another grid. I see this one every day as I make breakfast, but this morning, with a sheen of ice, the deck had another layer of reflections, revealing a third grid overlaying the first two.

I went outside with my iPhone to get a closer look, and gosh darn it, the ice was slippery!

No bones broken.

Happy New Year to all.