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Monthly Archive for October, 2010
Here is a photograph of the pickled eggs in action at my birthday garden party. There’s Barbara on the left, with a pink pickled egg on her fork, and Sara on the right eating something else.
And here is a photograph of me and Ms. Naomi Adiv, at the same party.
I am off to Calgary tomorrow to participate in the Mountain Standard Time Festival! David McCallum and I are performing Sticks and Stones
Sticks and Stones is a long-duration public intervention performance that makes use of knitting and the ancient Chinese strategy game, Go. The project explores the subculture of the reclamation of craft, strategy games and public gaming and the public’s relationship to these things. Go is played on a grid and knitting - as a series of rows and stitches - is an excellent medium for representing this grid. The long performance will see two competitors engage in the public knitting of a game of Go, resulting in the gradual creation of roughly 300 swatches, representing the state of the board at each move throughout the game. As the swatches accumulate, they will be gathered and presented, documenting the process of the performance.
Exhibition: October 11-28
Venue: TRUCK +15 Window
Performances: October 8-10
Venue: Art Central
Presented by M:ST
This is the outcome of this pile of books on our coffee table, back when D and I were roommates in Toronto.
Okra Pickles
Okay, so Okra pickles aren’t as thrilling as pickled eggs, somehow, but this photo is a lot nicer. So here you go. Recipe from the Ball Complete Book of Home Preserving. With extra garlic.
It occurs to me that I will indeed eat well through the winter, but it will be all pickles and condiments.
Okay, this is just a crafty works-in-progress list. There are other things going on.
1. Quilt for me. 6-inch squares all cut, laid out, two rows sewn together. Old photograph:
2. Crocheted granny-square blanket, in browns and orange and teal and white. All squares done, time to begin joining them
3. A Girasole! Just begun. Here is linds winding up my yarn cones:
4. Pair of lace knit socks (can’t remember the pattern at the moment). I knit one fully, then decided that I need to go down a needle size or two. So I will frog the whole thing. I’ve never done that before.
5. An Entomology shawl. Nearing completion! You might recall it from that bike and gardens and coffee day in Red Hook a while ago:
6. The thing with the hexagons. This is a secret.
7. Kindle case/cozy for my mom. In nascent stages of existence.
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