There were people spinning, some on drop spindles, and some on wheels. There were weavers too, showing little kids how to make blankets with strips of fabric.
There was the guy taking cylinders of wood and making them into wooden balls. Check out the photo below. His hat is made of wood. And he made it himself. Out of a hunk of wood. He also made the balls and bowls in the photo below.
I'd say that for the sheer danger of it, the glass blowers were the most interesting to watch. That being said, the vase in the photo below was destroyed seconds after I took the photo, because he accidentally spun it into the side of the oven. I just don't think I could take that kind of pressure.
Too bad. It could have been awesome.
Let's see...what else....I managed not to kill the garden, and indeed we've been eating from it for several weeks. The herbs are doing the best by far, but, we've got zucchini, scallions (I know I should weed this, but we're eating them and soon I can just turn it), and inklings of tomatos and corn.
I'm going to have to learn to can tomatos, I think.
Are you sufficiently distracted from the fact that I haven't shown you any knitting in weeks? God, I hope so, but I do promise a photo tomorrow or Thursday. It will be worth the wait, for sure.
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Canning tomatoes! You have no idea. Canned tomatoes are the best. I'm salivating just thinking about them. My favorite are green ones stuffed with parsley and garlic. Craft party looked like fun...Wooden balls are cool, so is your garden. How did you do so well with scallions? Ours are too tiny still. Super skinny. Oh and ouuu at the piles of yarn... :)
Drew actually took a class in glass-blowing. One of his first impressions was that he couldn't believe that human beings would subject themselves to the heat of the studio.
He made a swell goldfish paperweight.
-- Kati
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