02/04/2019 02/04/2019

All growth does not take place in sunlight

The best pillow. I had an epic sewing day, catching up possibly as much as two years of mending and hemming, which put a lot of clothes back into my wearable circulation. I also made this wonderful piece of embroidery into a pillow (case? sham? cover? cover.) -- pillow cover, complete with buttons to get it off the pillow for washing, done with the buttonholer!!

04/01/2018 04/01/2018

Away from the storm

09/05/2016 09/05/2016

Manual sewing

I wasn't expecting it to be quite so much of a total body workout. This century-old treadle sewing machine sews like it plans to sew for another hundred years. This machine scoffs at your mysterious bobbin issues.

19/03/2016 19/03/2016

It's almost Earth Hour!

My favorite earth hour was years ago in B.C. We stood outside in front of our darkened houses and watched the lights around us wink out steadily.

14/03/2016 14/03/2016

This off-grid life

Off-grid is just the way we live, so I tend not to think about it at all, let alone how it's different.When I am struck by how living off-grid is different, however, is when I'm at someone's else's house, and I turn on the tap, and hot water comes out.There's a reason why ready electricity has become so pervasive it's practically assumed to be a human right:Electricity is damn convenient.