Pearl Sutton

steward & bricolagier
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Chronic reader, creative dreamer, a LOT of hand skills to make things real, intense health issues that limit my activity, but not my creativity or dreams. Moved to southern Missouri with enough tools and junk to build a life that might work well with my health. One of god’s gigglers, I punctuate with smiley faces and exclamation points when I type, and smile and laugh a lot in real life. (Often at things no one else understands.) And I both curtsy at people (even when wearing grubby work clothes) and purr when hugged, both online and in real life. “Normal” is not a word that has ever been used for me.
Been organic gardening all my life, and bought 4 acres that I have designed from the ground up. Making it happen is being the most fun I have ever had in my life, the best 3D jigsaw puzzle ever! Reading Mollison’s Designer’s Manual was like coming home, ah, THERE I am! A reality where I can use all of my multifaceted talents and skills!
Dumpster diver, recycler, second hand store shopper, I tell people I am attracted to rust and lace. I have violated every warranty I have ever met, I’m a tool using animal, and I use my tools to modify everything in my world. And it only gets weirder...
Bricolage: something constructed or created from a diverse range of available things. Adding ier to a french word means one who does that activity. I am a bricolagier, the things I do are all made of a wide range of things that I have acquired from diverse places.
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Try "low light" I saw at least a couple of hits.

"Bad weather" and "cloudy weather" might work too.
1 day ago
Apologies for not answering, I lost track of this thread.

The idea is circulation of air, from lower to higher, without it needing to be heated by the sun. I'm thinking the cooler air is lower, higher is generally warmer, is that enough to move the air from here to there?

So in the winter, or in the shade, is the air inclined to go that way? It doesn't have to be heavy flow, just circulation flow.

I might be able to test this, I have some guttering downspouts, could put little wind spinners by them to see if the air moves.

I don't recall what exactly prompted this question, I'll try to remember what I wanted it for :D
1 day ago
The sweater, with NO stupid corners!! Still doing final drying on the rack.  
It worked!! YAY!!!

I have a lot of that black iridescent bead jewelry. That's why I wanted the sweater :D





2 days ago
It's finally blocked, I'll see how it comes out. Looking at it closely while I was doing it, I bet it had shoulder pads. I put matching cereal bowls under each side, and blocked it to that shape.  It took the blocking, the peaks went down. Hope it works!  It's really pretty. I like gaudy black...
3 days ago
It seems to me that a folding tripod type thing, some made for posters, some for cameras or poster easels, that are easy to find at thrift stores, would make an excellent A frame level.

A random one off the net:


A random A frame level off the net:


I'd just leave one leg folded up and use the other two. Third one is there if I want to stand it up.

3 days ago
...when I have to slam on the brakes to not hit someone, and right where I would have hit them, the car has already been hit there, obvious collision damage. The driver had done this move before, and didn't learn from the last time!
5 days ago
Oh BEAUTIFUL!!  
For future reference, the way to move a treadle like that is to take the machine off the base, and if the base has drawers, hat whole unit comes off too.
Will save your back!! :D

My sister got two LOVELY old machines for Christmas. I'll try to post pics at some point in the thread about showing off sewing machines :D
1 week ago
Just plain blocking I can do.
It's... Just checked, not as much wool as I thought. 80% acrylic, 20% wool.
I'll try blocking it.
Thank you!!
1 week ago
I have a pretty wool blend sweater that I'd like to wear. The shoulders are kinked badly, looks like it was hung on a pretty square clothes hanger when wet. I'd like to smooth down the kinks in the shoulders.

I'm thinking steam tightens up wool, if I wash the sweater and while it's wet, press it back into shape with an iron, would it work? After that it would get dried flat on a rack.

Any better ideas?

It's really pretty, it's black and beaded with iridescent black beads. I'd love to be able to wear it. :D
1 week ago