Wednesday, March 23, 2016

My midterm needs to be ironed...

How many people can say "my midterm is drying"? Well, then it had to be ironed. Here's a photo of a part of it. It uses Shibori,  block printing, batik, and some dye crayon drawing. I LEARNED A LOT, including that a scale drawing with color would have pointed out that the brown rock wall makes the piece unbalanced... I'm still pleased with it, and turning it in on Friday.



We also did monoprinting; I failed to pre-mordant my fabric. Here's a photo of one before I accidentally washed the dye out.


I finished the scarf in the weaving class (I love it) and the silk one on the home loom (love it too).



What's next? Spring break, some napkins on the home loom, a double weave sampler on the school loom, and maybe some dishtowels for she who likes wolves.

March food challenge was Madhur Jaffrey's Indian Cooking.  I made the Lamb Biriyani (it's called something different in my edition) and yogurt with eggplant. The taste of the lamb was good but the texture was off; I think it would have been better with basmati and I used jasmine rice. The yogurt was excellent. We had a Doennhof Tonschiefer Riesling with it, which was a good pairing for the spices. The next day I made the cauliflower with tomato and onion to go with it; it was very good.


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