No Spam Header Tuesday

Sticks and sticks can break ---oh forget it. This is a fence, picturesque, eh?

Dark and light patterns through a perogala.

Ms. Guadalupe, who shows up everywhere. These tiles are outside the front door. Whatever she is doing there it seems to be working OK. And so are the chile ristras.


Still in Santa Fe, still touching a lot of textiles, still shopping and looking, and of course eating. My purchases today were from the chile store and should last me a few decades- got one of each flavor in duplicate 'just in case'. Found a hemp store and got TY a tee shirt for his yoga without some silly coyote on it. Black, the accepted color of Bikram. Highlights included a bagful of beautiful linen yarns shaded from denim blue to brown, a couple pr perfect button for the current sweater-in-progress, and a visit to The Santa Fe Weavers Gallery where I tried on the most amazing felted coats but held it in and bought a silk scarf with Indian saris patchworked onto it with large stitches. This took 2 hours. Things run slow here apparently. The editor from Selvedge magazine will be there for a trunk show Thursday night so we ae invited back- I need to talk to her anyway to bitch about them stopping the on-line version of the magazine so it will be an occasion to wear the new scarf. The shop asked me not to be mean to her (?). I promised. Then after a quick quesadilla lunch with those Hatch chiles again, we headed off to the Folk Art Museum return visit
(The view from outside the museum looking up at the crocheted installation.)
for a look at the permanent collection of the figures gathered from all over the world. I saw it first about 20 years ago and could remember so many of the dioramass still. This is possibly the best museum installation I have ever seen. Also went through the current show called 'Pins and Needles', a short tour through how fabric evolved from African women sitting around spinning cotton on a drop spindle to the little metal looms we had as kids to weave potholders. There was a little participatory section where I worked on an already started embroidery of a heart and strung a few of the stretchy rounds on the hand looms for the next interested bystander. I have one more museum to visit to use up my pass, so tomorrow I will pick which direction to head. Dinner tonight at Pasquales so more Hatch green chiles for me.

UPDATE: chicken mole enchaladas with cilantro rice and jicama/ orange salad, followed by pinon nut ice cream with caramel sauce. Yegads, perfecto.