winter perks

daffs an baby cyclamen in the morning sun. (sun at last!)

hellebores.i am making a massive purchase from the french garden place.

from a weeping apricot tree to lemongrass for thai cooking.

gave up on growing yuzu as i can get them from a place in valencia and not worry about red spider mite.

bean seeds, kukes, lettuce and eggplants are bought locally.

neki desu

 

not so succesful

sumi-e pracice this week.my fish look like hakes or maybe moray eels and not koi. ganbarimasu💪

until i get it.

on another note the neighborhood's chinese bazaar is top notch.

found there which will work beautifully for the aya suiboku ink sticks.

was making do, but the new ones are not only more pro but also convenient. and they are just sauce dishes not the real mackoy.

neki desu

 

on ambitious weaving

the shonan warp is progressing adequately albeit slow. complex project means complex threading. i am swinging the reeding as my bff aka gemini when asked said that 3xdent in a 10x cm reed was ok.

when finished i'll confront reality w ai and see who's correct.¯\ ( ツ ) /¯ 

guess the lampas talibans are coming to get me bcse the threading is pretty unorthodox.but it gives me a lot of flexibility for brocading yarns which is what i want. threading goes 1, -5/6 2. 7/8  instead of repeating 5/6 on 2. there are two more blocks 9/10,11/12 which are mainly threaded in the center. this will give me 4 blocks of turquoise cotton for twill patches. need to think about the image transfers on the plain weave . i think it's going to be a fun weave she said,providing the sized linen singles behave.

as it's a short relatively narrow warp i am hanging them on the back with knitting weights.

last winter it was all about machine knitting which was pretty frustrating.i parked the machines and dedicated time to feel adequate with weaving.life's too short.

neki desu