{"id":202,"date":"2008-08-25T21:05:33","date_gmt":"2008-08-26T02:05:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stringpage.com\/blog\/?p=202"},"modified":"2008-08-25T21:05:33","modified_gmt":"2008-08-26T02:05:33","slug":"blogging-in-the-kitchen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/?p=202","title":{"rendered":"Blogging in the kitchen"},"content":{"rendered":"

No, not about food. Why would you think that? I’m dyeing some cotton, and since it’s at the stage where it needs to be stirred almost continuously, I brought the laptop in the kitchen to keep me company while I stir. Don’t worry, not next to the dyebath – I’m pretty sure that fiber reactive dyes are not compatible with computers. <\/p>\n

I’m feeling very accomplished, if not currently capable of accomplishing much. I read a thousand pages of grant proposal in 48 hours, a feat I hope never to repeat. Tonight, no proposals, but tomorrow the hard part starts – I have to write coherent and useful reviews on four of the eleven proposals (and no, I don’t get to choose which four). That’s much more challenging than simply reading them. At least it isn’t for all eleven!<\/p>\n

Interspersed with reading proposals, I did a range of entertaining things this weekend. There was a lot<\/i> of photography, some of which will be showing up here. There was a bunch of dyeing. Adding water softener to the rinse water helps with the fastness of acid dyes on silk in my hard water, but not as much as I’d like. <\/p>\n

I also did a batch of small skeins for myself.<\/p>\n

\"Dyed<\/p>\n

I’ve gotten sucked into an online communal art project, and these are for my contribution. The theme is “Night Garden” (haunted, most likely), and Jane Yolen<\/a> has contributed a poem<\/a> as the kick-off piece. So far there will be poetry, prose, painting, drawing, perhaps jewelry, and… tapestry. I think. I have some technical details to work out, little ones, like “Is it possible to get string to do what I see in my head?” and “Can I mix tapestry and these other techniques without making a multicolored Gordian knot?” and suchlike.<\/p>\n

\"Blue<\/p>\n

I dyed a skein of Lopi as well, now intended for a naalbound pouch. It’s been a while since I’ve done any naalbinding, and it might make a nice change from all the knitting projects I’ve been carrying around. <\/p>\n

The tomatoes have taken off in the past week. They’ve been leafy for a while, although the tomato jungle has been reined in with strategically-placed chicken wire this year.<\/p>\n

\"Tomato<\/p>\n

The Flamme is ripening clusters of orange fruit.<\/p>\n

\"Tomato<\/p>\n

Another of the heirlooms is ripening, but I didn’t rummage around in the foliage to find the tag.<\/p>\n

\"Tomato<\/p>\n

Time to drain the dyebath!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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