Pearl Sutton

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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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Are there food-safe solutions? Feeling frustrated & disillusioned about canning (venting & want help

I agree with the previous posters, the problem is you are trying to get pressure canning results from water bath canning. I have never used an electric pressure canner but I know a lot of people who do, and love it. Look into them :D
The sugar is added to recipes as it kills bacteria, so it's part of the preservation process. Pressure canning you don't need the sugar, I'm with you, I don't like the taste of sweet stuff.

6 hours ago

food preservation

Fall Decor Pumpkins/squash that are excellent eating

Hey y'all! Its time to start watching for squash!! The first ones for sale won't be cheap, about mid-season they get cheaper. But if you are wanting a specific type, start watching, they are coming out around here.

IT'S SQUASH SEASON!!
My favorite time of year for neat flavors and good bargains!

:D

1 day ago

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Using tea as dye to turn white to cream?

Jay Angler wrote:Do you have enough of it that you can cut off a bit to experiment with.

I'm concerned that the flat fabric and the lace thread are not necessarily the same material or percentage? Labels often say, "100% cotton exclusive of trim" and in this case the thread that makes up the lace could all be considered "trim". It could be 100% cotton, but unlikely. More likely to 100% artificial something.

Do a small burn test? Instructions here for people who haven't seen this before: https://permies.com/t/274034/natural-fibers

It says both "polyester" and "cotton" in what bits of label I can read. I KNOW it's not 100%. That's why I'm not just using my good dyes on it, they don't work on polyester at all.
I'm debating taking a cut and trying to dye it with tea.

2 days ago

dyeing

Using tea as dye to turn white to cream?

This is how I want to use this lace, bottom hem. The neckline also has lace, I'd just be using this for backing to show off the blue lace.

This is the new lace with my lace petticoat and a sweater, both of which are the color I wear easily, not the bright white of the new stuff. THAT is the color I want it to be. And why I'm thinking tea.....

2 days ago

dyeing

Using tea as dye to turn white to cream?

Megan Palmer wrote:Have you considered onion skins?

I’ve only ever used them to tint white embroidery canvas because I didn’t want any white bits to show so don’t know how colour fast it is.

If anyone has any info on onion skins, I'd love to know it. Mostly what color does i come out?
And I need to be able to wash any dye thing I use. Cold water is fine, but need to be able to wash them. I'm chemically sensitive, and wash the weird fragrances people use off me when I come in from the rest of the world :D

2 days ago

dyeing

Using tea as dye to turn white to cream?

I got some lacy curtain stuff second hand I want to use for a cool outfit. It's bright white, which is a bad color for me, I do well with a softer shade, cream or something like that. The 4 pieces had one tag between them, it's trashed, I can make out the words cotton and polyester, but no clue of %'s or what specific parts are made of.

I use commercial dyes, but they only work on natural fabrics.

If I wanted to tint these just a bit darker, and it turns out there's more polyester than I would guess, what are the odds that tea will stain it nicely? Does black tea dye polyester? Doesn't need a lot of color shift.

It's REALLY pretty lace and will go REALLY well with what I'm doing, it just needs to be a color I can wear easier.

If not tea, any other suggestions?

2 days ago

dyeing

Polymaths of Permies Unite!!

George Yacus wrote:
Maybe the knee vibration gizmo could become a Chladni plate to artistically separate a variety of harvested seeds from one another / from the chaff?

Yup. Does it pretty well. :D
Also good at making a vinegar soak of rusted stuff work better by keeping it all moving.

3 days ago

meaningless drivel

Polymaths of Permies Unite!!

Robert Ray: Laughing as I think about your post as I'm exercising my knees on a vibrating thing, that shakes the floor. Something on the table is hitting something else, making a chiming/jingling noise, and as I move my body to different positions, it changes the pressure on the vibrating thing, the vibrations through the floor shift and the chiming/jingling sound shifts. So then I started chanting in Sanskrit, moving to make the sound music to go with my chanting :D

We oughta get together on our knee pain brain explosion thinking, no telling what we'd come up as we work on our pain! :D

3 days ago

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