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In the bookshed: Soil Mates

Posted on February 14, 2011 by

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Soil Mates Sara Alway Quirk Books, 2011 Oh Valentine’s Day! What better way to celebrate than to mate your plants in a match bound for glory? That’s just the idea in the new Quirk Books release – Soil Mates: Companion Plants for Your Vegetable… Continue Reading “In the bookshed: Soil Mates”

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Went to Port Alberni today to meet up with some union folks and got a chance to look at fish and lots of fish eggs. This is a tray of one-day coho salmon.
I am going to be fifty in two and a half months.
I was supposed to be on a residential meditation retreat this past week but I was still too sick to go. Instead I made an at-home retreat with meditation practice in my tiny zendo, chanting service, soji (work practice), art practice, and lots of rest practice. I kept silence most of the time (I was here by myself) and stayed off social media. So grateful that my Zen community offered online participation so I could feel that I was sitting with others.
Preparing a warp: winding on 238 threads, tying the cross, a tied warp on the board and the finished warp chain. This is a small warp at 238 threads and 6.5 yards. From start to finish it takes me about 2 hours to complete this stage of the weaving process.
All this colour in the weaving stash (and this is just some of the cottons) and yet I'm winding an all-white warp today. At least these pretties are here to brighten up these grey mornings. #weaversofinstagram #weaverfever #handweaving #textilestudio
My small #glimakrajulia loom is empty for the first time in six months as I've used some of my sick time this week to slowly weave the tea towel warp off. Once I recover some energy I will start warping this loom again and then turn to fixing the warp on my larger loom.
Natural dye painting colour studies from the last few weeks.
I last posted about this warp in June. Until today, I have left it untouched. My other loom also has a warp on it that needs work before I can weave it. It's time to move these projects off and make room for new ones!
I am struggling right now as I take a big step back from roles I've been in for the last 22 years (union activist/steward/local president etc.)
One thing I love about the @innatlaurelpoint is that even though its original founder (a former boss of mine, Paul Arsens) has long gone, the Arsens collection of Asian and First Nations artworks remain tucked throughout the building. This is a Japanese wedding kimono, which I only found at the end of a dim corridor because I went looking for the fitness centre. As fine as anything in a textile museum, though faded with time. #textileart #kimono #textilelove
Card for the week is the nine of wands: after much effort, a final task is nearly complete... reflect on your successes to push yourself to the end and replace resentment with an open mind, visualizing successful completion.
It doesn't look like much stretched out on the floor, drying, but I am very happy to be finished my latest knit piece. This asymmetrical shawl was #knit from a woool/silk yarn in Hudson-on-Croton, The Catskills, Victoria, Gilford Island, Sayward, and Gabriola Island beginning on the Summer Solstice. Our handmade items are an accumulation of time and experience in a way consumer items can never be. I look forward to putting this one into circulation for the winter. #textilestudio #knittersofinstagram #kniteverywhere #diywardrobe @smallbirdworkshop @lilalu72

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