This summer I read Entangled Life which is a lovely book about all the cool things fungi can do. I very much recommend it in general, but the part that’s relevant here is the bit talking about yeasts and fermentation. Turns out that for all the snobbery that’s out there about brewing alcoholic drinks like …
For a while now I’ve had a polystyrene dressfrom that was *roughly* my size. Let’s call her Suzy. She was good enough to prop up a piece of clothing I was working on but not quite good enough to check the fit or anything. I could (and probably at some point will) buy an adjustable …
Since I’ve been spending a lot of time at home I have also been watching a lot of youtube. And I stumbled across some cool bookbinding videos and thought I wanted to try it. I didn’t have any leather for carving and tooling, but that’s okay because I’ve never done leatherworking either and learning one …
I was working on a sewing project yesterday (more on that in a later post) and halfway through I seem to have lost my thimble. Yeah, I have a real talent for losing things in my own house over lunch. After searching for a good half hour I gave up and decided to make a …