Friday fragments

in which our plucky heroine remembers that, despite everything, there is still beauty in the bright world...

at Green Zebra (a local grocery), I saw the most beautiful display of oyster mushrooms...

and a closer look at one of the clusters:

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I seem to be doing a lot of mending and repair this month, despite my desire to be making and doing. Whilst beginning on the large task of mucking out the textile room, I found some knitted fabric that lent itself to renewingone of my favorite knit tops, the stripey grey and black turtleneck. While mostly in good shape, the cuffs had become worn away in spots, and so this very narrow knit stripes in black and white were added to the ends to get a bit more another few years of wear out of it. I am considering also adding some Alabama Chanin style applique as well, since it is becoming a bit more "bohemian" a garment...

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Now that the library zone is done, I've moved on to tackle a much more challenging part of Acorn Cottage: the textile zone! The small bedroom here serves multiple functions, it is a combination guest space and stitchery workspace, at least in theory. However, my fabric stash has rather taken over, primarily due to my inability difficulty in discarding smaller pieces of fabric that "might be useful". My intention here is to make the space be orderly enough so that guests will feel comfortable staying here, that I have space to work on projects for myself and on commission sewing jobs, and that I am able to easily find, among my supplies and tools, whatever I need from the things on hand.

I expect this to take a bit of time, as it is more complex than dealing with books and magazines; I also am resigned to it looking worse before it gets better, since all the small bits tucked away in bins or drawers will need to be sorted through and recombined into a not yet created system that makes sense to me. For right now, though, here is a picture of one wall with the newly orderly piles of larger fabric pieces, those with enough yardage to create garments:

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January SMART goals

#	THINGS MADE	THINGS FIXED	THINGS GONE
1	black/cream pinafore	brown pinafore hem	expired medicines
2	toile for knit pants	reframed charter	paper recycle
3	patches for ♀ march	Wastekeep bid	bag of papers
4	-	charters on wall	bag of papers
5	-	topmost shelf cleared	bag to Goodwill
6	-	EBT application in	bag to Goodwill
7	-	bookcase tidied	bag to Goodwill
8	-	textile shelf leveled	bag for Powells
9	-	shadowbox tidied	bag for Powells
10	-	stripey cuffs mended	-
11	-	-	-
12	-	-	-
13	-	-	-
14	-	-	-

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