Category: Canning

Post #3198: Pickling Beets

Posted on August 21, 2020 by

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A friend up the hill says to me, “feel free to come and harvest my garden anytime, I’m not eating enough of it.” And so after the gym last Friday we go over there, crack a beer and get to work pulling carrots and… Continue Reading “Post #3198: Pickling Beets”

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Post #3173: Autumn food thoughts

Posted on September 24, 2019 by

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Photograph of Willows Inn cookbook, small loaf of sourdough wrapped in paper and a jar of stone fruit jam.

For the last few years, Brian and I have put aside $100 a month so that for our anniversary at the end of September we can purchase a piece of artwork for our home. This year we decided that instead of artwork, we would… Continue Reading “Post #3173: Autumn food thoughts”

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Post #3071: Tis the season to put down some pickles….

Posted on August 7, 2017 by

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Summer has been full of things thus far, and so has work – leaving me little extra-curricular time for posting on my blog. But I think I’m going to return to writing about food since we are in the season of bounty and the… Continue Reading “Post #3071: Tis the season to put down some pickles….”

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Post #2058: Ten pounds of olives

Posted on September 28, 2015 by

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A couple weekends ago I was at my local market and a bag of raw olives just jumped into my basket. Besides that, I have really no explanation for how I managed to bring home ten pounds of Sevillano Olives without the faintest idea of… Continue Reading “Post #2058: Ten pounds of olives”

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Post #2044: Yes, it’s an amazing canning cupboard but nope I’m not a prepper…

Posted on August 26, 2015 by

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The picture above was taken the other night, after Brian and I packed the cupboards at the bottom with tomatoes and tomato sauce made and canned over the weekend. At one point, both the pressure canner and the boiling water canner were going at… Continue Reading “Post #2044: Yes, it’s an amazing canning cupboard but nope I’m not a prepper…”

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It's party weekend @birdsonggabriola ! Showing off some recent dyes in party colours to celebrate: marigold, lac, brazilwood and cochineal. #summerofmaking2021 #hotgirlsummer #naturaldyeing #textilestudio
Introducing #studiotour Thursdays! Over the next few weeks I will show off the corners of my studio on #gabriolaisland as a way of sharing space with you virtually. I love to see where people live and work so let me know if you've posted a tour video of your space somewhere! #summerofmaking2021 #weaversofinstagram #makersgonnamake #handmadelife
Planning for #knitting some of my newly dyed yarn into a cowl. Basic design in greens, grey and purple. #summerofmaking2021
Design gamp on the loom! A gamp in weaving is a kind of sampler where we thread blocks with different colour or pattern threadings. This allows us to explire different colour and pattern variations in a single warp. In this case, the gamp is created through colour order, and woven entirely in plain weave. This is a @janestaffordtextiles weaving school project. #summerofmaking2021 #weavingsamples #weaversofinstagram #textilestudio
Got my warp all tuned up, my bobbins wound, and I'm ready to weave! #weaversofinstagram #weavingsamples #summerofmaking2021
A few more rows and this cowl will be finished #copenhagencallingcowl by @lilalu72. My 2nd time #knitting this pattern. #summerofmaking2021
No textile studio post today. Instead for my #summerofmaking2021 I'm showing you the show that we made at Birdsong tonight. We have been hosting a concert series this summer that will continue through until the end of August. Tonight we are graced by the presence of @tinajonesmusic - our neighbour and friend. So lucky to share my life with the creative people who surround us. 🙏 #gabriolaisland #houseconcert
The search for red continues.... so hard to tell what colours will look like when dry. I'm betting this madder is a bit orange but will try overdyeing with a small amount of cochineal later this weekend if that is so... #summerofmaking2021 #naturaldyeing #textilestudio
Brazilwood again with different water pH. I dyed this before I went on holiday. Still not getting the reds I want... pinks and oranges abound though. I've been meditating on what exactly I think about when I say red and trying to figure out how to get that colour I see in my mind .... I arrived home this evening so I'll be back in the studio with more dyeing and weaving in the next few days. #summerofmaking2021 #textilestudio #naturaldyeing
Simple vacation #knitting: one of my favorite kitchen items is hot pads knitted in wool (I double worsted weight for the right thickness). I use my sets daily, and they go in the housewarming packages I make for friends. Wool is antibacterial, antimicrobial, and it doesn't catch fire easily. Perfect for kitchen use! #handmadelife #textilestudio #summerofmaking2021
I brought a bunch of small balls of yarn along on my #cortesisland vacation so I could wind them for yarn dyeing. Here is the niddy-noddy with a skein, and the view from our suite. #summerofmaking2021 #textilestudio #naturaldyeing #makersgonnamake
Weaving terminology lesson for the non-weavers interested in the process! Before I left on holiday I threaded all the heddles on my loom and started to sley the reed. The first picture shows the heddles (first picture, white cord which has an eye in the middle) with cotton thread passed through. Each warp thread is passed through a heddle as part of what determines the fabric pattern. Each warp thread is also passed through a reed (second picture) sometimes more than one thread per dent (slot). The reed is one of the factors that sets the density of the fabric. Reeds come in different dents per inch, 10 dents per inch means there are 10 slots per inch. If I sett my fabric at 20, that means 2 threads per slot. My current project is 18 ends per inch, which I am sleying into a 12 dent reed. To get 18 epi I sley 2 threads in a dent and then 1 thread in the next dent. And repeat! #summerofmaking2021 #textilestudio #weaversofinstagram #weaverfever #handweaving

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