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SVFF was a welcoming event. It was so good to see other people; people I actually knew! Most people were really good about masking. Everyone talked about how high the local number of Covid cases are. I got home and looked them up. I'm glad the local media scared them into behaving but truthfully, the number of cases in that area of VA, is much lower than where I live. I'm glad they took the risk seriously. They said Saturday's gate count was around 1200 people. I have no idea what the normal gate count is so I guess it doesn't matter. Sunday is always much slower.
People seemed to be interested in everything. Stuff sold. I have another event is 2 weeks time and must only sell my hand dyed yarns. It's called Pittsburgh Indie Knit and Spin. At 6:30 this morning, I was up winding yarn. I need to have a full display. There is so much yarn to process. I didn't unload the whole van yet. It looks like rain tomorrow so probably Wednesday before I get at that task. I did pull a display that was looking mighty empty. I'm low on 16/2 Linen. Some stock need to just be wound and labeled but really, I could use to dye another 4 pounds. I need to buy salt for bast fiber dyes. Yes, I have a to do list going.
It was so nice today, I did do a little gardening. Mostly I harvested two bags of potatoes. It's a second season crop which are on the light side. Our fall tends to be dry. The old dirt from the grow bags got added to the new raised bed. A couple of strawberries got transplanted. We'll see if they take. The rose bush got trimmed. Twigs will be burned but the leaves are for a dye bath. What I am noticing is a reaction in the plants to climate change. Plants tend to get viney with few leaves in high carbon dioxide atmospheres. The roses are doing just that. The salad turnips and radishes likewise. I learned this from Cornell, doing experiments in the 1990s at the bio-dome in AZ. It would be interesting to test it. Meanwhile, I'm not counting on a late crop of radishes or turnips now. What we are getting:
The pumpkins are coming in just under 8 pounds. Today's harvest equalled the same as all of last week. The year-to-date total is 255 pounds. There are at least 3 butternut on the vine yet and one more pumpkin. Tomatoes are much slower to ripen because of the angle of the sun and the amount of clouds. My focus will be on the yarn, not so much the garden. As trimming happens, so will dye baths. Raspberry could happen or marigold, maybe with goldenrod. We'll see.
People seemed to be interested in everything. Stuff sold. I have another event is 2 weeks time and must only sell my hand dyed yarns. It's called Pittsburgh Indie Knit and Spin. At 6:30 this morning, I was up winding yarn. I need to have a full display. There is so much yarn to process. I didn't unload the whole van yet. It looks like rain tomorrow so probably Wednesday before I get at that task. I did pull a display that was looking mighty empty. I'm low on 16/2 Linen. Some stock need to just be wound and labeled but really, I could use to dye another 4 pounds. I need to buy salt for bast fiber dyes. Yes, I have a to do list going.
It was so nice today, I did do a little gardening. Mostly I harvested two bags of potatoes. It's a second season crop which are on the light side. Our fall tends to be dry. The old dirt from the grow bags got added to the new raised bed. A couple of strawberries got transplanted. We'll see if they take. The rose bush got trimmed. Twigs will be burned but the leaves are for a dye bath. What I am noticing is a reaction in the plants to climate change. Plants tend to get viney with few leaves in high carbon dioxide atmospheres. The roses are doing just that. The salad turnips and radishes likewise. I learned this from Cornell, doing experiments in the 1990s at the bio-dome in AZ. It would be interesting to test it. Meanwhile, I'm not counting on a late crop of radishes or turnips now. What we are getting:
The pumpkins are coming in just under 8 pounds. Today's harvest equalled the same as all of last week. The year-to-date total is 255 pounds. There are at least 3 butternut on the vine yet and one more pumpkin. Tomatoes are much slower to ripen because of the angle of the sun and the amount of clouds. My focus will be on the yarn, not so much the garden. As trimming happens, so will dye baths. Raspberry could happen or marigold, maybe with goldenrod. We'll see.
