Daily Notes- November Sixth

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Finally got around to changing my desk calendar.  Six days into the new, fresh, clean sheet of paper that is November.  I found that I had made a notation of an instagram site I had visited.  And the artist I heard about on Jude Hill's site.  I hadn't remembered doing it.  But am glad I did.

Tea bags.  Opened, rinsed and dried flat.  Then sewn together and embroidered with designs. I may only piece my tea bags, layered on top of old cloth.  Make a "page" for that book of pages I started work on last winter.  Squares of one inch finished that ended up being 5 by 7 inch pages.  I believe I made at least 7.  Then started using larger blocks. Making larger surfaces.  Always in that soft faded thin cotton.  It felt so good in my hands. Now, it is almost all used up.  Not gone.  I suppose the pages could be stitched together into one large surface someday.

I am drinking more tea these days.  Less coffee.  Nice to be able to save the bags and use them to make something.  I like the softness of the paper and the tea stained colors.  Soft, mottled.  The used leaves are going into my compost kettle.  Then out into the bins.  I have three bins.  Nearly full now but shrinking over the Winter months into usable compost.

I seem to be leaving the path of commercially printed cloth.  I seem to be leaving the path in all things.

Eco printing cloth with leaves and natural things.  Alum and steam.  Liking the soft natural look. Perhaps I need to make a new set of eco cloth pages this Winter.  Add them to my "book".

I have a new book to read--  Salt Fat Acid Heat by Samin Nosrat.  I believe she has a series on Netflix that I can watch as well.  Science. Of. Food.   And beautiful illustrations by Wendy MacNaughton. Making me want to draw (line drawings) of all my cooking tools, stove top etc.  Perhaps embroider them on tea bags?