…gets me every time I find myself sucked in by the orbit of a yarn store these days – which I had previously lived my life impervious to, since I just learned to knit in June – and today in Campbell, California the site of my mania was Green Planet Yarns, where I succumbed to ..
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…with Alice Waters this afternoon (wearing the crazy 10 foot long triangular multi-indigo-blue linens and cottons shawl/scarf I had just knit and presented to her at lunch – relieved that it was actually wearable) was a much anticipated first chance visit to the revolutionary and influential garden and ‘edible education’ program she founded in 1996 ..
…is what I am tentatively calling this latest (pretty gay) knitted creation that seemed to emerge out of my busy needles without much planning – which started with super fat wood needles and some organic Japanese hand-dyed cottons, continuing into smaller needles and some some substantial brilliant blue wools, and terminating in a triangle of ..
…are suddenly on my mind – perhaps inspired by the 95 year old Abruzzian basket-maker we met as part of Domestic Integrities research in Italy – and seeming like the answer to everything, slowly filling the house in all shapes and sizes, for a variety of purposes – from yarn collections to fresh produce in the ..
…is one reason I have been slow to post things here as they happen, having been taken over by knitting-mania which started with learning how to spin wool into yarn by Lisa Anne Auerbach in March at the Princeton Student Colony, then knitting lessons at my London Sundown Schoolhouse of Queer Home Ec in June, followed by ..
…’strings of paper flags with kaleidoscope cut-outs used as festive decorations throughout Mexico…traced back to the Aztecs’ hand made by Taller Arte Papel Oaxaca with local stalks of flax was the ceiling-hanging/covering highlight of Dosa’s installation at the Santa Monica Museum of Art opening l..
…named Fernando Marcantonio, aged 95, residing in a remote small Abruzzian village learned how to make baskets from his father and grandfather when he was young – something that they did by necessity, to contain everything that needed containing at home (ricotta, figs, olives, grain…) – but then he entered into the family’s farming life – went to ..
…kept me busy for most of the night and morning making my way from Mildred’s Lane in rural Pennsylvania to Vienna, via a ride from friends to Penn Station, a LIRR train to Jamaica, an Airtrain to Terminal 2, a plane to CDG, a 35 minute walk to the connecting gate, to Vienna on another ..
…at long last – having grown up surrounded by that familiar activity with knitting aunts and grandmother, a knitting mom who knit us sweaters and afghans, and a knitting sister who’ll make me an occasional hat or scarf in shocking colors when I’m lucky – was the highlight of the day at the Sundown Schoolhouse ..
…is the activity for the day, as we fled the spring rain and cold and leaky drafty dome of the Colony compound to gather in the nearby anonymous modern building, where we made ourselves at home on the floor of the lobby surrounded by piles of old clothes, and scissors, and random creations we weren’t ..
…and finally where it should be, after hours and hours and weeks and weeks of dyeing, cutting, braiding, and sewing every shred of unused blue (or willing to be blue) fabric and clothing in the house….and now that I have finally run out, it is done for the moment, possibly inspiring some upcoming projects, and ..
…my new obsession which is keeping me busy most evenings – is still small after all of these hours of busy hands, much much much slower than what I had in mind, especially when it comes to hand sewing the braids into a tight spiral, but more satisfying to, as it swirls together into something ..
…today and getting ready to embark on a new craft adventure that I think is going to lead my work in new directions and chang..
…at my uncle’s admirably and intricately decorated house, is a hypnotic diversion from our lunch here this ..
…today started with a visit to the studio of Richard Bresnahan, where we drank delicious green tea out of his earthy sumptuous cups and teapot (similar to the one I have at home in LA, which I discussed in this New York Times story a few years ago) around a warm wood hearth-like square filled ..
…is what I’m mak..
…are being made for the kids, and some of the adults, at the Academ..
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