End of the week domestic

[lizwilliams]

It's still raining and it is cold. We've been eating light, healthy food - toad in the hole, kippers, kedgeree. Soon we will smother ourselves with lard and sew up our clothes. I am about to make a vegetable soup and some banana bread in tonight's cookathon.

Reading at the moment: Terri Windling's THE WOODWIFE, which was a present and which I am greatly enjoying. I've just finished docbrite's LIQUOR, which was excellent. I will be looking up further book(s) in this series. I liked Poppy Brite's earlier novels very much and this is a new departure but, I think, a highly successful one.

I also went to my spinning and weaving class, and the results of the last few weeks are here:

http://pics.livejournal.com/mevennen/gallery/0000g8q2

The blue was dyed in an indigo vat and I can't remember what the orange and apricot were dyed with (onion skins, I think, and possibly sumac). The plan is: spin enough wool, dye it blue, weave it into something, probably the kind of lumpy scarf you give your mum when you're 10.

Comments

[mevennen.livejournal.com]

It was a castle wheel - an ordinary spinning wheel, but a rather more compact version. I'm learning to adjust the tension on these things - this isn't complicated, just a matter of fiddling about with the knobs! High tech, you see.

I have a feeling a friend of mine knows about the sheep studio thing - I will check. It sounds great!