remnants turned to gold

this is a quick post with very little fiber content unless your pumpkin was of the fibrous watery kind.

what to do with all the remains of the pumpkins?  oh no! more pie? more soup? 

here's an easy  one:

• cubed pumpkin
• raspberries
• butter
• balsamic vinegar

 judge by eye the quantities of the ingredients  depending on how much pumpkin you have

boil the pumpkin cubes until done, but keeping them firm.

in a skillet melt butter add a few drops of oil to prevent it from scrching.

sauté the cubes until tender 

add half a teaspoon balsamic

add the raspberries blend all adjust butter if needed.

add a turn of the pepper mill and serve hot.

you can garnish it with some more uncooked raspberries.

it's a tart-sweet side dish that goes well with meat or fowl.

in a short while i'll  be sacrificing my scraggly over grown hair at the hairdresser  and will go from witch to princess :) here i go!

neki desu

what i do on loom breaks

aizome cotton itajime summer 010

i sometimes dye, others book and other times stitch.in that way at the end of the day i feel i have accomplished  lots.

the cotton was indigo dyed this summer and stored away until better times. i find autumn a very stitch conductive season, don't ask me why, and most of my stitching is done in autumn. perhaps it is because  as a season it is more reflexive and relaxed. not adrenaline heavy as summer.

this cloth is at its early stages and i will be showing its progress. the words were stitched in chain stitch creating a very natural handwriting. have you too found that writing on the computer has altered your handwriting?

 those of you of a certain age do you remember the song volare?there was also a  rock  of some sort version by bobby rydell. so anyway  nel blu dipinto di blu.....( up in the sky painted blue)

aracne please correct!!!

neki desu

an obs*es/si*on

with the perfect selvedge. even if it's going to be cut off. it's one of those inexplicable things, perhaps because of the view it gives when weaving. i think the best compliment, especially if coming from another weaver, is that your selvedges are good.

my japanese silk shuttle a simple elegant tool as all things japanese and  works very well on narrow looms such as mine.

then there is the wool shuttle. it is amazing what the small tug of the spring does.

but what i'm really obsessed with is the lack of bon ton bon goût of most males in this country.
these gentlemen(?)seem to aim at setting the clock back to pre constitutional times.
shame on you perez reverte. and you're not a politician you're an intellectual.

 have a good weekend.

neki desu