{"id":11088,"date":"2023-05-13T14:17:30","date_gmt":"2023-05-13T19:17:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/?p=11088"},"modified":"2023-05-29T17:09:49","modified_gmt":"2023-05-29T22:09:49","slug":"so-much-for-good-intentions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/2023\/05\/so-much-for-good-intentions\/","title":{"rendered":"So much for good intentions"},"content":{"rendered":"

I wanted to get better at posting regularly. Hah! I actually got WORSE! It’s now been 6 weeks since I posted. Yikes.<\/p>\n

Here’s my excuse – I haven’t woven much. Does that work for you? It doesn’t really work much for me. \ud83d\ude41<\/p>\n

Anyway, the time frame means this will probably be another lengthy post. As I was preparing it…and I’m not at home when I’m doing so…I see that I’ve neglected to take photos of everything I should have to show you what I have<\/em> been doing. Sigh.<\/p>\n

Let’s continue in the kitchen first. In the last post you saw & heard about my efforts with gluten free sourdough. Of course, that wasn’t the last of it. You saw up to trial #4. There were more. I won’t give you tons of details now, but here’s GF sourdough #5. Decent.<\/p>\n

\"GF<\/p>\n

Then I tried a different recipe from a different blogger. MISTAKE! Granted it was going to be a smaller loaf, but here it is from the top, with my potholder for size. This has an egg in it.<\/p>\n

\"GF<\/p>\n

And here it is completely cooled and cut. Look at how gummy it is. It went straight into the compost.<\/p>\n

\"GF<\/p>\n

Time was passing, and it was nearing my trip to my friend’s in WV. So I decided to make her one more loaf with Georgia’s now tried-and-true recipe. This time I added a few cloves of finely minced garlic and some Herbs de Provence, just for fun. <\/p>\n

Then I realized that her non-GF hubby might feel left out, so I baked him a loaf of regular sourdough. His has more garlic than hers, and black olives (she hates olives, he loves them), and Italian Herb blend. Here they are side-by-side before being cut.<\/p>\n

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And cut in half, GF in the front.
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If I was lived near them, I’d continue to make her more GF sourdough, and would try more things with seeds and nuts and other additions. But this was as far as I went. <\/p>\n

I brought her the GF sourdough starter and all my remaining GF ingredients, as well as all the bread. I told her that if she wanted, we could make a loaf while I was there so that she got some experience with the process. As I expected, she declined, acknowledging that she was unlikely to actually do it. No problem. Made me even more glad that I’d brought her as many loaves as I did.<\/p>\n

Then it was Easter. I wanted to make an egg braid to bring to my daughter’s. Haven’t made one in many years and was looking forward to it. Doesn’t this look nice?<\/p>\n

\"braided<\/p>\n

Hah! It was not the moist and chewy delight I wanted at all. Instead it was dry IMHO. Sigh.<\/p>\n

Let’s leave the kitchen. **********************<\/p>\n

I sewed bead bags for April and dropped them off at the Weaving Center.<\/p>\n

\"April<\/p>\n

Then my 7-year-old grandson called me on a Sunday morning and asked if he could set up a lemonade stand on my corner. Sure! It was the first really lovely spring day we’d had. I hauled out my garden umbrella for him and a folding table. He and his mom made and brought everything else.<\/p>\n

\"lemonade<\/p>\n

Hand squeezed lemons, simple syrup, and just a touch of hand squeezed lime. Add ice and it was DELISH! The truth was even if it had been made from a frozen concentrate he probably would have done as well at selling. Location, location, location. Add a really cute little kid and it’s a winning combo. Plus his mom texted a few friends who came by. Some cars driving by simply stopped and gave him a donation. Most of the lemonade purchasers gave him a large tip as well.<\/p>\n

I had to be at the Weaving Center that afternoon, so he packed up and went home and set up in his driveway in their cul-de-sac. They don’t get much traffic, but the kid was entrepreneurial. He went door to door and offered to deliver. Of course no one said no! He made a ton of cash that day. <\/p>\n

Sticking with nature for a bit… *************<\/p>\n

No, I didn’t take this photo recently; it’s from mid-March. But I was fascinated with what I saw on my morning walk.<\/p>\n

\"power<\/p>\n

The shadow of the cable and power lines made a very definite and noticeable impact on the melting snow. Who’d have thought? Not me, obviously.<\/p>\n

Last year I went to a plant sale of a local garden club and picked up a few gems. One of them was a small bit of kerria shrub. It’s blooming nicely in this, its first year at my house.<\/p>\n

\"kerria<\/p>\n

As it grows it should be one more thing to offer me some additional privacy in my backyard.<\/p>\n

And I couldn’t resist taking this shot.<\/p>\n

\"iris,<\/p>\n

This is a little corner of my garden that both looks and smells wonderful!<\/em> I picked up the bearded iris years ago from a woman who painstakingly made her own crosses, using a paintbrush and lots of attention and patience. Beautiful and fragrant! I have always loved poet’s narcissus for both their simple beauty and their fragrance. Not sure how they, or the single tulip, got planted among those iris rhizomes.<\/p>\n

Ok, on to fiber. ***********<\/p>\n

Here are those 8 Spring Flowers towels you saw all my trial and tribulations with in the last post. Only 2 are left in my Etsy<\/a> store.<\/p>\n

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Then I actually wove something for myself. A rare occurrence indeed. I saw something another weaver<\/a> had done and it moved me to try my hand at it. My fabric is mostly cotton, with one of the warp yarns a rayon-cotton blend.<\/p>\n

So I made my calculations and warped up the loom. I didn’t have quite as much yarn as I wanted so I made some last minute changes to my plan. And still, I played warp chicken. This is the back of the loom – couldn’t have gotten another inch out of this warp.<\/p>\n

\"playing<\/p>\n

I also played weft chicken. This is ALL the weft yarn I had left at the end of weaving. (Note that the color is quite off in this photo. It’s most red, not pink.)<\/p>\n

\"Jacket<\/p>\n

Then I took the warp off the loom, washed it and dried it, and laid it out in my backyard. It obviously hasn’t been pressed here, nor have I yet dealt with all my thread ends.
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