from the inkshop

in nara on sanjo dori.















trying zen stitching

this one's in process.  if  one stitches and pulls the cotton gauze reacts by separating the threads and creating lovely holes.inspiration  comes from deanna.

3 days to go until i close my artfire shop.


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antidote-finished

the stitching noise  antidote is finished. another good news is that today is the first sunny day in weeks. the bad news is that it's hot. the good news is that i started warming the ai vat for  dyeing.

looking forward to some dyeing before september comes. you never really know with september it can be cool and rainy or very hot and dry.

on another note i decided to close my artfire storefront so do check it out before the end of the month when i'll take everything down. see if you like anything. hint,hint.

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in shape with the beatles

taking advantage of the cloudy cool weather-no ai- i've been learning how to shape garments with the k machine.geezz the problem comes when the instructions say now do thee same from left to right or right to left.for a mild dislexic it's hell on wheels. i also think i'm missing a line of instruction because the numbers don't work out. i figured if i'm going to knit a garment the instructions will be more specific then decided not to bother  flipping everything, including my brain,  and doing the other side. 

 time will tell.

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noise

living in the city is great. there is access to shops,hospitals many cultural activities and other amenities. i can turn down the stove, run down to get that missing ingredient and be back in 5 minutes; that's convenience. there is also a sense of neighborhood that i like. BUT:

summer means renovations and there is always one, if we're lucky, going on.this is not japan where neighbors are visited to announce the works thanked for their patience and in good will spirit presented with small gifts. here you wake up one morning at 8 to the sound of a sledge hammer. husband -san finds it normal because people take advantage of their going away on holidays to do the works, that's the way it's been done; this kills me. sure they go away and come back to a redone place. no inconveniences for them all for the neighbors. i think inconveniences should be shared.

this week has been dramatic after we thought the other works had finished 2 weeks ago and peace had finally settled in.

there's a lot of stitching going on because work has to be relaxing, soothing frayed nerves. in the hopes that the workers start painting next week yours truly is stitching away. the one above is still in progress. printed, painted and distressed lutradur, still dealing with the pink OD.

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yards and yards

meters and meters of wonderful cotton gauze, etymologically from that  ill fated place.

now i only need sunshine to run an ai vat to process some of it.

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by means of knit

my favorite view in japan, the wiry chaos. cooked and ready to serve, frame included. tested it and people had trouble reading it. discarded.






ditto for this one. luckily no time invested in the frame.




















 then came the turn of the fuji building in odaiba. different versions, still unreadable.










you can tell how much i like this building.

finally i knitted one that was abstract enough, but yet readable. it will be entered in a juried show, hence no photo. still have to decide on the frame.



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views

 winding bobbins for a warp here cochineal and ai.  still under sakura fever; pink is not my color.


fourth dip but on hold.

here's the reason. not complaining because there has been a 5º temperature drop which put me back in the studio. knitting a project.





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