Posted in embroidery, sustainability, tagged conserving, embroidery, kitchen, sublime stitching, sustainability on September 22, 2008 | 8 Comments »
My mission for this past week has been to embroider some tea towels. More specifically, my mission was to embroider tomatoes onto a tea towel.
Success. I took the towel with me this weekend and we used it, instead of paper towels, to wipe off our cutting board. The towel was a little stained by the [...]
Posted in food, sustainability, tagged color, conserving, embroidery, farmers' market, local food, peppers, purple, sublime stitching, tomatoes, vegetables on September 20, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Alarm clock goes off. 6 AM on a Saturday. Gross. I flop out of bed and manage to grab a hoodie and my keys through the fog of slumber. There are a few cats meandering the streets, but that’s about it. It’s early. It’s dark. I’m tired.
But I’m happy. Or I will be. Early Saturday [...]
Posted in knitting, sustainability, tagged conserving, farmers' market, knitting, sustainability on September 19, 2008 | 12 Comments »
I have a deep hatred of plastic bags. I’ve recently exiled plastic bags (like the ones they give you at chain grocery stores or Target) from my life for a couple reasons. More often than not, they get thrown away. Those that don’t end up in the ocean — where they ensnare marine life or [...]
