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an adventure for a hood
Sep. 30th, 2017 11:07 pmOn Thursday I took the hood in progress for the Norrskensbågskytt to the Frostheim crafts night, intending to work on it there, but my lovely apprentice Astrid wanted my help making a pattern for her new dress, so I did that instead. However, Ranghild was getting help from my other apprentice, Ena, to cut out a hood of her own, so I handed them the hood I am working on to try so she could see if she wants to go with the extra triangles in the shoulders or not.
We worked on her pattern for a while, and then put the pattern pieces on her silk, and she realized that she has far more of the silk than she thought (it is an intersting colour--light blue warp, yellow weft (or the other way around?), giving it an erry pale green colour that changes with the light), and there is enough to do a dress with a full train (as the surriving dress she is using for inspiration does), instead of the short tunic she was thinking of.
Then I noticed that pretty much everyone else had left, so we packed up too, and went home.
Friday I heard from Morgaine for the first time in ages, and decided to do a phone call and talked for almost three hours, during which I got out my sewing bag and did some long-needed mending on one of my pairs of trousers. Hours later I decided I should put the sewing bag away instead of leaving it on the couch where I had been sitting, and started putting stuff back into it, and wondered "where is the hood?". It wasn't on the couch. It wasn't on the shelf where the bag normally lives. I looked all over, and couldn't find it anywhere.
Then I remembered handing the hood to Ranghild, and realized that I may never have gotten back and put it back into the bag, so I sent her a message, and she replied that she had left it on the table next to the window where she had been working. While at that point I had thought that the hood was in the bag when I came home, I was also quite certain that I didn't walk over to that table when packing up to go home, since I was more concerned with packing up what was left of the black currant pie I had brought to share. However, by that point it was 22:00 on Friday evening, and I was really tired, so I decided to wait till today to go check the classroom. Figuring that either it was still there, and would still be after I had gotten some sleep, or someone who was in the room Friday during the day had already taken it and going to check wouldn't change anything.
Luckily, it was, in fact, still there when I returned this morning.
After bringing the hood home I harvested the kale and silverbeet and made a very large pot of green sauce with them, some garlic, and some almondmilk. Before steaming them, but after washing and chopping into largish pieces there were so many leaves that I filled one huge metal bowl heaping as high as possible with the silverbeet, and the other with kale, and a third, only slightly smaller, but still quite large metal bowl also with kale. After steaming (many batches worth) and running through the food processor (many batches worth) adding the garlic (which I cooked by just dropping into the steaming water and leaving till I was done, adding about six cups of almond milk, which I cooked with a bit of rice flour to thicken it, plus what was left of the steaming water and garlic, plus a bit of salt, pepper, onion powder, etc. it completely filled the large soup pot.
Doing all of that and cleaning up after took long enough that I didn't bother to cook the spaghetti squash to go with it, instead I did a quick one-egg batch of small homemade noodles and had that with butter, sunflower seeds, and a fair bit of the green sauce. Yum! tomorrow I will have the sauce with the squash, and freeze lots of it for other meals, in both single serving sizes, and big enough to share a meal sizes.
We have only had one minor night of frost so far this autumn (Thursday night), and the plants would have been fine to leave in the ground and keep growing for some time yet, but I happened to be free to do this work today, and I won't be later. Besides, it has been cool enough I don't think they were really growing much anymore.
We worked on her pattern for a while, and then put the pattern pieces on her silk, and she realized that she has far more of the silk than she thought (it is an intersting colour--light blue warp, yellow weft (or the other way around?), giving it an erry pale green colour that changes with the light), and there is enough to do a dress with a full train (as the surriving dress she is using for inspiration does), instead of the short tunic she was thinking of.
Then I noticed that pretty much everyone else had left, so we packed up too, and went home.
Friday I heard from Morgaine for the first time in ages, and decided to do a phone call and talked for almost three hours, during which I got out my sewing bag and did some long-needed mending on one of my pairs of trousers. Hours later I decided I should put the sewing bag away instead of leaving it on the couch where I had been sitting, and started putting stuff back into it, and wondered "where is the hood?". It wasn't on the couch. It wasn't on the shelf where the bag normally lives. I looked all over, and couldn't find it anywhere.
Then I remembered handing the hood to Ranghild, and realized that I may never have gotten back and put it back into the bag, so I sent her a message, and she replied that she had left it on the table next to the window where she had been working. While at that point I had thought that the hood was in the bag when I came home, I was also quite certain that I didn't walk over to that table when packing up to go home, since I was more concerned with packing up what was left of the black currant pie I had brought to share. However, by that point it was 22:00 on Friday evening, and I was really tired, so I decided to wait till today to go check the classroom. Figuring that either it was still there, and would still be after I had gotten some sleep, or someone who was in the room Friday during the day had already taken it and going to check wouldn't change anything.
Luckily, it was, in fact, still there when I returned this morning.
After bringing the hood home I harvested the kale and silverbeet and made a very large pot of green sauce with them, some garlic, and some almondmilk. Before steaming them, but after washing and chopping into largish pieces there were so many leaves that I filled one huge metal bowl heaping as high as possible with the silverbeet, and the other with kale, and a third, only slightly smaller, but still quite large metal bowl also with kale. After steaming (many batches worth) and running through the food processor (many batches worth) adding the garlic (which I cooked by just dropping into the steaming water and leaving till I was done, adding about six cups of almond milk, which I cooked with a bit of rice flour to thicken it, plus what was left of the steaming water and garlic, plus a bit of salt, pepper, onion powder, etc. it completely filled the large soup pot.
Doing all of that and cleaning up after took long enough that I didn't bother to cook the spaghetti squash to go with it, instead I did a quick one-egg batch of small homemade noodles and had that with butter, sunflower seeds, and a fair bit of the green sauce. Yum! tomorrow I will have the sauce with the squash, and freeze lots of it for other meals, in both single serving sizes, and big enough to share a meal sizes.
We have only had one minor night of frost so far this autumn (Thursday night), and the plants would have been fine to leave in the ground and keep growing for some time yet, but I happened to be free to do this work today, and I won't be later. Besides, it has been cool enough I don't think they were really growing much anymore.
