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Continue reading →: Bad influence
The Interweave Hurt Book Sale is going on right now, but not for much longer.
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Continue reading →: Into the mail
Last week’s dyebath: dry and wound onto bobbins. The silk now goes off into the world, some here and some there, to be made into who-knows-what. (If you know, I’d love to see pictures.)
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Continue reading →: So cute
You all realize you’re in for a seemingly-endless stream of garden photos, right? There’s also string: the gallery show at Peters Valley Craft Center is available online (and catalog). There’s still time to sign up for my class, too.
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Continue reading →: As high as an elephant’s eye
This is not safe for work, nor is it the John Hiatt song I’d intended to post. But. Well. Sometimes these things just happen.
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Continue reading →: Things I did not need to experience
Exploding lightbulbs. In the bathroom. At 2 am. Or any time, really. The cat and I are unscathed; the light fixture funneled nearly all of the shards into the sink. We were both rather startled, but Morgan recovered himself by eating kibble while I cleaned up. Apparently I recover myself…
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Continue reading →: Simmer
I finished mulching around the raised beds today. Things are coming up: tiny cotyledons of lettuce and herbs, and robust paired bean cotyledons. The rhubarb is getting over its transplant shock and sending up new leaves, and there are green strawberries and green tomatoes and itty bitty peppers. Photography called…
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Continue reading →: I am mighty
I’m not quite done – they still need mulched around the edges – but all three raised beds are in and filled and planted. Tomatoes, peppers, and lots of things from seed. Some of the seed was several years old; no idea what will actually come up. By a conservative…
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Continue reading →: Upgrade
The World’s Smallest Pea Patch is getting an upgrade this year (and no, I’m not changing its name, even though it no longer is true). But isn’t this sharp: I have one more to install, giving me three 4x4ft raised beds. The first one is nearly full of perennials already.…
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Continue reading →: Whew!
I made every last one of my major spring deadlines, both planned and unexpected. (A few minor ones slipped, but let’s not talk about that.) Here’s one: These sprang bags went in the mail to Peters Valley Craft Center yesterday. I’m teaching a sprang and tablet weaving class there at…
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Continue reading →: Scenic stripmalls
I had to take my car in for some work today. Nothing major, just state inspection and such, so I thought I’d work in the bookstore/coffeeshop while I waited for it. The mechanic opens earlier than the bookstore, so I took a stroll around the enormous parking lot complex while…
Welcome!
I’ve been doing stuff with string for quite some time, and describing it to others online since 1996 or so at Phiala’s String Page.
I also do some science and write some fiction.
I’m Phiala most places on the internet.
