Wednesday, March 30, 2011
As I sifted through my photos of the Infinite Variety exhibition, I realized that the only detail shots I took were of allover embroidered quilts, ones with pictorial or text elements, or both. This is something that I’ve noticed before, the way themes emerge from a body of photos I take without an agenda, generally [...]
Infinite Variety, the Folk Art Museum’s satellite exhibition at the Park Avenue Armory, is an absolutely stunning installation of 650 red and white quilts from a single private collection. It’s one of the most amazing textile shows I’ve ever seen, and I’d even go so far as to say one of the most extraordinary experiences [...]
I tried another homemade nutella recipe, this time from David Lebovitz, but this one isn’t it either. The consistency is good, but somehow the dairy managed to blunt the flavors of the hazelnuts and chocolate. It just tastes like mild chocolate pudding. I *like* pudding, but if I want pudding, I’m not going to bother [...]
There’s a growing pile of t-shirts in my bedroom that fall into the category of Too Worn to Wear Outside Anymore, Even to the Gym. I can’t possibly give them to Goodwill and since there’s still plenty of decent material there, I can’t bring myself to throw them away. Once I get around to redrafting [...]
I try to be good about eating breakfast, I really do. I’m just not hungry until I’ve been up and moving around for a while. So anything I have for breakfast has to come to work with me, which means I have to take potential spillage and temperature issues into account. I don’t know why [...]
My brother was in town last night, playing a show with his best friend from high school. I really, really didn’t want to go out in Manhattan last night. St. Patrick’s Day is always chaos, I was kind of beat. But I’d said I’d be there, I don’t get to see him and my sister-in-law [...]
Wednesday, March 16, 2011
I took my ripple blanket out to work on it over the weekend. It had been a while and as I spread it out to take a look, I was forced to admit something I’d be suspecting for a while: the color order sucks. I genuinely like all of the colors I’m using, and I [...]
Union Street Bridge, Gowanus Canal
Just a quick shot of a few small projects I have on the go: a simple ribbed sock in some Regia tweed I’ve had for at least a decade, a simple triangular scarf/shawl in some handspun I’ve had for equally as long, and the lovely Osmena, growing slowly but steadily on size 1 needles.
I always like to get outside when I’m upstate, but my dad and I tend to have bad luck with weather, getting rained out more often than not. It’s not all bad, since we get to see a lot of movies, but I can see movies at home. When I’m that close to the woods, [...]