View From My Porch This Morning

Target was no Green or Orange

Last weekend was Michigan Weavers Guild Dye Workshop.  I wrote my self a note to note use green or orange since for some reason I typically use those two colors when I am dye.  I ended up with more green than I wanted and some peach but I didn't do as bad as I normally do.  Pretty pleased with the outcome.

I dyed both yarn and some shibori scarves.

 

So I Go to a Plant Sale - And I Come Back With Yarn

I can't stop buying yarn.  I usually do not need what I buy.  Yesterday I went to the Cranbrook Wildflower and Perennial sale.  They have it once a year and have a great selection of wildflowers and some native Michigan perennials.  This year a group of students had a table with some plants that can by used for natural dyes such as madder an calendula.    Of course I bought some of those.  Along with a skein of yarn that they had dyed with Marigolds.

But I also bought way too many plants.  Bought a red trilliam, two types of fern, foam flower and others.  Hopefully I will start planting them tomorrow.

Keeping Babies Warm

Finally finished the baby blankets for the twins.  Gave it to them at their Christening.  They were six months old - at least they were not grown!   Took me a while since I normally sign up for a class where I use one of their bit looms.  Couldn't get into the class so ended up waiting until my friend Chris finished a project on here loom and used that.  Thank you Chris!

Gina and the blankets

Riley and her blanket

Johnathon and his blanket

Loud Thanksgiving?

So far it has been a quiet Thanksgiving.  Watched the parade in my pajamas on TV, went for a walk and will go to friends later this afternoon.

Because I LOVE cranberries and they are traditional today, I thought I would share last weeks picture from my photo class.  Every week that a big project is not due, we turn in a "Pic of the Week" with a different theme.  Mondays theme was LOUD so I showed the start of my cranberry sauce in the blender.

Ghosts At Greenfield Village

Since it is Halloween night - thought I would post a picture I took at Greenfield Village at one of the houses decorated for Halloween Nights.  

Fake

I have still been taking photography classes for the last two years but haven't posted much from them since it was a film class and so didn't bother to digitize the prints.  But now I am back in digital.  Unfortunately I took the beginning digital over two years ago and am now in advanced and I haven't forgotten most of my little photoshop skill.

Besides the regular assignments - he has assigned us a PIC of the week.  He does a quick evaluation so you can learn from it but you get 10 points as long as you turn it in, 0 if you don't.  I was impressed with the amount of work a couple of the kids did in the class (unlike my film classes - I am the only one who seems to be older than 40 in this class).  Some are also quite talented.

The first weeks assignment was: FAKE

He thought the right side of the photo was too blown out (I agree) and I should of done a simpler background (I am not sure about that - I wanted to tie the color of the foot to the Navajo rug).