Big changes

It's been a time for making large changes and I'm not quite settled. My two year residency at Greenwich House pottery has just ended and I'm in the process of finding a new studio home. In the meantime, I've had some exciting success on Etsy. Look for lots of new photos and work soon!

End of winter

Signs of Spring

There is a magnificent Magnolia tree in the garden at Greenwich House Pottery. Every year we wait with anticipation for its huge blooms. This winter has been brutal in New York and during one of the big snowstorms the top third of the tree snapped. I took a few cuttings home to try to propagate them using rooting hormone. A couple of months later and one of the little cuttings has sprouted beautiful spring green leaves.

Looking down into a glass

Arctic Flowers

 

Abisko National Park, Sweden

Arctic Soda

Lately I've been dreaming about Sweden. Part of it is that this time last year, GP and I went to Stockholm and the arctic. The other part is all the snow we've had in New York this winter. We visited our friend Emma in Stockholm, which was blanketed in snow as it had been all winter. I remember being (mainly) charmed by the snow, but she looked as though if the snow had a neck she would wring it.

One of our stops in the arctic was the mining town Kiruna. I loved the design of these soda bottles. The first photo is from a cute cafe (Safari cafe?) where we ate dammsugare (translates as "vacuum cleaners," but is a delicious sweet) and the second one is from the grocery store where we looked for snacks to eat on our night train back to Stockholm.

Silk Hexagon Blanket

 

A few years ago, I bought three cones of silk yarn, planning to use it to make a wedding present for some dear friends. I ended up making them something else, and the silk yarn ended up sitting in the closet for a long time.  Now I'm using it to crochet a blanket composed of these small hexagon blocks that I found in a crochet book from Japan. It's probably going to be my first dyeing project, too.