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Continue reading →: Friday Night Fever
The Connecticut trip was partly unproductive. I wanted to locate some old research notes, but apparently they no longer exist. I found all sorts of tangential information, but not what I was looking for: the letter from 1967 that accompanied the data sheets, other data and research notes from the…
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Continue reading →: Friday Photos
Wasn’t it just Friday? According to the calendar we’re here again, and there’s been no string news all week. Sorry! I’m full of great plans, but what with the traveling and all, everything has stayed in the planning stage. I’ve done a bit of spinning, and worked on the never-ending…
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Continue reading →: On the road…
Sorry, no great update. I’m here with them: looking for something that probably doesn’t exist, and I haven’t had time to write. Or knit, or anything else like that.
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Continue reading →: Friday Photos
My favorite cow: She wanted to help so badly! This is the green time of year at my house. The first flush of spring blooms is over. The spring plants are relaxing and taking a well-earned break, and the summer bloomers are resting up for their big day. This time…
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Continue reading →: Welcome to my dye studio
I always thought those movie depictions of science labs with flasks full of colored liquids were pretty silly, but this is where I spent the evening: I guess I need some flasks. And maybe a bunsen burner. Just for the effect, you know. There’s an outside water faucet, a convenient…
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Continue reading →: Getting ready to dye…
I was thinking yesterday about my approach to things… art, life, work… pretty much everything. You could probably sum it all up as “science in service of art”. Art is the goal, but fuzzy-wuzzy inspiration and a good dose of trial and error can only get you so far. The…
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Continue reading →: Things to dye
Of course if I want to dye things, I need not only dye, but stuff to put in it, right? Never mind the closet full of wool, or the totes full of yarn… new acquisitions are obviously required. Enter Paradise Fibers, handy source of all things woolly. I’d never purchased…
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Continue reading →: Housework
Nick had a friend visiting this weekend. Their grand plan was to go to a gun & knife show on Saturday, all day. (Nick makes knives, you see.) My reward – having the house to myself for a day! My plan: to clean the house first, so that I could…
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Continue reading →: Friday Photos
I take zillions of photos at work for various work-related purposes. (No really, it doesn’t have anything to do with my enjoyment of photography.) If you take enough pictures, some of them will turn out very nice. That’s the advantage of a digital camera – I don’t have to pay…
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Continue reading →: Those mittens…
… sat for many days, lacking only half a thumb. Really. 40 minutes of work if I watched TV while I did it, and yet… no thumb. Now, this isn’t an urgent project since I won’t be able to wear them until January without my fingers melting off, but still……
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.
