Sheep Shirt is promoted to the closet!!!

Lots of sheeps roaming
this shirt...

I'd put the sheep shirt away for awhile... The lovely soft double gauze was moving around a bit and I was too scared to sew the sleeves in. I finally finished it, and sewed on plain white shirt buttons from my button box. I sewed them on twice, as the first time they were too high. I think the trick with buttons is to test the first one you put on so it's in the right spot... Anyways, here's a photo of it handing in the laundry room door; it fits the same way as the paper shirt I finished last summer.

Which leaves me with a pile of fabric and no plan. I need a plan. Without a plan, I've cut out another Natalie shirt (like the sheep shirt) in a Malaysian batik I bought in Singapore. I also sorted all my fabric and brought out a rayon I bought a few years ago in Santa Cruz; I am planning on the #1 Shirt or Seamwork's Hansie, both fairly modern unstructured type garments.

I'm stalled on weaving for a couple of silly reasons. On the double huck, I finally embraced the class as a buffet (the teacher presented it as such); taste what you want and don't feel obligated to finish any one variation. I think I've seen enough and it's time to start a project (there's enough warp) but I need to fix one error and I may resley the reed. I'm mentally working through some ideas. The warp for testing the Bronson lace is beamed on the other loom and needs threading, put I can't bring myself to count the heddles.

I did try paper marbling again, after the last run that didn't work. The airbrush paint I tried didn't sink but it didn't spread well and was frustrating; so I mixed up some acrylic paint and water, and that floated and spread nicely. Printing was an issue; the paint didn't adhere well and seemed to slide off the page. WTF? Out of 4 papers there's only one I'd consider usable. So I stopped. I'm going to re-alum the paper (and try some other paper as well), maybe next week. It would. be nice to have a working "recipe".  I did have a lot of fun with it and if I can get it working, I'll pick up some additional colors.

We spent the night up in Napa last night to see Garuda Blue at the Blue Note; it was a lot of fun and I enjoyed the trip. We had breakfast this morning at Grace's Table; great food, fun menu, I would definitely go back.

I've been posting more updates lately... I suspect that'll tail off in a bit...