Life as a series of experiments
As a companion to my interview about growing and processing cotton in the upcoming Plants are Magic Vol. 3, I actually wrote up a pattern for a little sachet bag made from handspun cotton. Due to time and space constraints, the pattern didn’t make it into the magazine, so I figured I’d release it here …
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Last year at our community garden harvest party I had a demonstration on cotton processing and spinning. It was a huge hit and it was wonderful to see so many people making the connection between the plants in the garden and the clothes they were wearing. This year I decided to do something in a …
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Ever wanted to watch me talk about processing and spinning cotton? Well now you can! (Scroll down for a transcript of the video. ) The video above is a more condensed and organized version of the talk that I gave at the community garden harvest party. One of our garden members is a 4th grade …
Unfortunately the lime tree ended up dropping both of the little limes, so no limes for me this year. It does have a lot of new, healthy growth which is exciting though.
...G.R.O.W.I.N.G! Maybe anyways. An unfortunately timed heat wave here last week stressed the key lime so out of the ~15-20 flowers only two turned into limes that stayed on the tree, and it is quite possible that it'll drop those soon as well. That's okay though, the flowers were exciting and lovely themselves and now …
