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Showing posts with label Scones. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Scones. Show all posts

Sunday, December 18, 2022

String and scones and things

I continued with the cording yesterday, now that the fibers were damp, much better 


There's a difference between using iris leaves and day lily leaves. You split them before drying then damping, and the day lily being long and narrow, has mostly long fibers, good for cordage. The iris is broader leafed and separates into smaller lengths, a bit trickier for cording but it still works. 

Quite a bit of what you see here is iris with a few lengths of daylily. And I've started to build up the wall of this piece, to make a straight sided container.



I'll use up the current supply then make more cordage.

 I found that my current Arabic course of twenty lessons only has seven on YouTube, so I had to look around for a new course. 

I'm now following this, from the beginning, and find it works as review, too, along with new words. Some really odd vocabulary, what with the words for secret, research, fail, sister, father, door, broadcast, repeat, pilgrim. Think of the dialogue you could have!



Since today's Sunday, I'm taking the day off from Arabic and trying to figure out the start time of a carol service I was sent a link for. It's in London, turns out, so I translated into their time, find it's not on, and wonder if it's already been translated into EST somewhere... We'll see. Oh, it's on now, must rush!

But first, Gary came over yesterday with scones! So my afternoon tea was lovely



Meanwhile another puzzle courtesy of Haggard Hawks





Friday, August 2, 2019

Scones for tea

Lemon curd tarts didn't happen today for various reasons largely having to do with needing to piece, and not feeling pestered to rub butter into flour and all that. Maybe tomorrow.


Meanwhile here's my substitute. Scones with walnuts and chocolate kisses, lemon curd hovering helpfully like Jeeves, ready to serve.

Excuse me now, have to go piece.