Current Projects ...
(... and a few photos in the garden, May 2025)
CREATIVE PROJECTS -7
(i).SHAWL
One of our star students is beginning to yarnshift a 3x1 (180cm x 60cm) shawl for herself. Yarn is 77% Alpaca & 23% Silk. It’s a brushed fluffy yarn, which makes it harder to do, and requires a meditative patience. So far so good. (Note how the weave structure build up in four places. Eventually it all meets together - the magic of yarnshifting).
(ii).HANDBAG STRAP
The third of our collection of five children reaches 40 later this month. I was going to weave a complete bag with tablet-weaving, but it got too much. So we bought a bag, and I’m just weaving the strap. It’s an ancient Turkish pattern I quite often do. Hope the colour mix we chose for the strap matches and/or complements the bag. You decide.
(iii).ANGEL SCULPTURE
In a previous posting I had a pic of an angel who had lost her wings in a storm. I promised to make new ones. Here’s the evidence.
(iv).GROW-BOXES
A subject close to my heart. We have no soil in our garden; it’s all clay/granite. So we have a big composting system and everything is either in grow-boxes, heaped bio-mass matter, or I dug a deep hole with a Bosch demolition-hammer (of which I have now burned out three) and filled it with good soil.
Recently I made 10 new grow-boxes which are placed under a construction with eating-grapes growing over it (hence the shadow) …
and the old grow-boxes made from wood which twisted and I couldn’t otherwise use to build anything …
(v).FLOWER-DOME
This is the season the flower-dome comes into its own. Built an 8m diameter geodesic structure in 2012 (I think) to grow plants over and make shade. The Jasmin & Wysteria have flowered already, but now the climbing rose and ‘potato’-flowers are out. It’s a scented dappled-light heaven. We had our monthly ‘food-and-plant-swop’ in it last week.
The entrance to the ‘living cave’ …
and from inside …
and from outside where the dome is hidden under a mound of colour …
(More pics of weaving and other creative projects, and garden, will appear on future Sundays in between my fortnightly poems).
Josh, I can only say you’re fucking brilliant and you make the world a better place! 🙏❤️
Super ultra impressed... :) (I like your beds and magical gardens)... I am a big fan of composting also. Have you ever heard of the Johnson Sue Bioreactor? You put wood chips in a circular wire structure so it gets the most air. Being that it is wood chips it creates a fungal dominate compost in about a year. You could also take the compost and feed to worms, soldier flies or creatures like that to break it down further... A bioreactor, six feet high can generate 20k$ worth of compost in a year. I was thinking too, you could inoculate with microorganisms, for example, that would generate phosphorus, where you could have it be compost specifically for flower. In any event. Way cool.