tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-78785196350503978692024-03-13T08:59:52.342-04:00 Ithaca Waldorf Handwork & morewoolladyfelterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16147478664615195856noreply@blogger.comBlogger193125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7878519635050397869.post-36686697088679466382019-08-31T11:19:00.001-04:002019-08-31T11:19:56.031-04:00Sunflower & Indigo happiness<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #351c75; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I wish all handwork teachers lots of joy and patience for the upcoming school year. I hope to post a lot more this year and take you through my school year. Im very happy to say I will be teaching Grade 1/2 combined, Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5, Grade 6/7 (double period) and Grade 8 (double period). </span></span></div>
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woolladyfelterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16147478664615195856noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7878519635050397869.post-85398685541143312372018-06-28T16:00:00.000-04:002018-07-27T14:42:34.421-04:00Handwork verses<div style="line-height: 18px; text-align: center;">
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #0c343d; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">I never have enough ve</span><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">rses so I scoured the internet and </span><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">gathered verses for us all in one place. I will update as I know there are many more. Some are not handwork specifically with the words but create action for the hands and fingers to warm them up. Also, many might feel as though that certain verses are grade specific but I feel you can mix them up a bit depending on the feeling of the children. </span></span><span style="background-color: white;">These are just suggested grades and you can see fit which verse fits each class. I will credit where I gathered and if I didn't its because I got it thru handouts or individual people, however if you would like me to credit it differently I would be happy to. I would love for you to send me verses as well. I will update as we all go along this journey of teaching.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">The secrets that my hands hold, are treasures for the might and bold </span>I thank my hands, heart, and mind<br />For teaching me to do my handwork just fine<br />__________________<br />I look at my hands with my fingers fine<br />And I want to feel proud that they are mine<br />For deep in my heart lies a golden chest<br />With secret treasures that no one can guess<br />Unless my hands do their very best<br />To work and work to open the chest<br />______________<br />VERSE: SITTING:<br />A little seed for me to sow.<br />A little earth to make it grow.<br />A little hole, a little pat,<br />a little wish, and that is that.<br />A little sun, a little shower,<br />a little while, and then a flower.<br />(Sing Through the Seasons, p.5)<br />______________<br />VERSE:SITTING:<br />Little brown seeds so small and round,<br />Are sleeping quietly under ground.<br />Down come the raindrops<br />sprinkle, sprinkle, sprinkle.<br />Out comes the rainbow,<br />twinkle, twinkle, twinkle.<br />Little brown seeds way down below,<br />Up through the earth they grow, grow, grow.<br />Little green leaves come one by one.<br />They hold up their heads and look at the sun.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br />The first part of the story is to demonstrate the technique on the floor i.e. without the loop on your finger. The second half then shows the children how to do the knitting with the loop on your finger. It is best to have a length of yarn handy while telling the story, and demonstrate as you tell it.)<br />There was once an old shepherd, who had a large, energetic flock of sheep. Every morning he would take the flock of sheep up the mountain to a beautiful green meadow where the sheep would eat the delicious grass. But each day, when it came time to make the journey up the mountainside, the old shepherd would struggle to keep the whole flock of young, energetic sheep together. Some would run away to nibble grass, some to play under the trees, and others would wander off among the mountain flowers.<br />The poor shepherd wanted to keep them together for their safety, but he was too old to chase after them. And so he thought and thought about what he could do to keep all the sheep together so that they could get to the meadow safely. At last, he had an idea. And so, the old shepherd carefully built a little gate [make a slip knot in the yarn at this point in the story]. And the next morning, he showed each sheep how to go through the gate one at a time [draw a loop of yarn through the slip knot 'gate' for each sheep as he guides them, and pull tight], and when each sheep got to the other side, the old shepherd was delighted to see that they all were happy to stand one behind the other. [show the children how the 'sheep' line up on the other side].<br />And so, for a few days, that was how the shepherd went up the mountain with his sheep to get to the green meadow. After a few days, though, the shepherd noticed that it took a long time for each sheep to walk through the gate one at a time. And so he thought and thought about what he could do. [Put loop on index finger of left hand now]. Then the shepherd had an idea. He told each sheep to stand ready, and then, with the gate in front of them [at this point, place the long 'tail' of yarn over the same index finger, in front of the first loop], he showed the sheep how to jump over the gate [take back loop, pull it over the front piece of yarn and right off the finger, and then draw tight - not too tight though!].<br />As each sheep jumped over the gate, the shepherd was delighted to see that once again, the sheep were all happy to stand one behind the other. In this way, the sheep were gathered for their journey much more quickly. And so, from that day forward, the old shepherd never had to worry about his sheep again and they all went easily and happy to the green meadow together every day.<br />(story copyright 1998, K. Manchip, all rights reserved)</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #351c75; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">Seed Pod (put both tall man fingers down in a 90º angle then back up), </span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #351c75; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Listening, and learning, and looking with care.</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #351c75; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Hands I have for work and creating</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #38761d; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">From as far as the stars to here (stomp one foot) </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #38761d; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I come to use my Left (out stretch hand) </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #38761d; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">and Right hand (outstretch hand hand )</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #38761d; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">to card (mimic carding) to spin (with closed fists spin in front of you) </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #38761d; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> to wind to knit (pretend to knit) </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #38761d; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">for this fine work my both hands are fit and now I will so quietly sit.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #b45f06; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; line-height: 17px;">The sheep has given us his Wool And plants the colors bright </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #b45f06; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="line-height: 17px;">And Man forged needles out of steel </span></span><span style="color: #b45f06; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="line-height: 17px;">For me to knit by golden light. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #b45f06; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; line-height: 17px;">So let us go to work right now And make a horse, a ball, a Cow </span></span></div>
<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 17px;">A gift for you, a toy for me</span><span style="line-height: 17px;"> A work of joy for all to see.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">For our heart's inner sun Glows brightly in us.</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">We will open our hearts To the sunbeams so bright</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">And we'll fill all the worldWith our heart's inner light.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #b45f06; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; background-color: white;"><span style="background-color: white;">My two arms are folded so straight on my chest</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #b45f06; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; background-color: white;"><span style="background-color: white;">Crossing each other with right over left.</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #b45f06; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; background-color: white;"><span style="background-color: white;">I think of the trees crossing branches and twigs</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #b45f06; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; background-color: white;"><span style="background-color: white;">Vines in the forest,</span></span></span><span style="color: #b45f06; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; background-color: white;"><span style="background-color: white;">Legs dancing a jig</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #b45f06; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; background-color: white;"><span style="background-color: white;">Window panes, rafters and joists in the floor</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #b45f06; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; background-color: white;"><span style="background-color: white;">Heroes at battle crossing bright flashing swords.</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #b45f06; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; background-color: white;"><span style="background-color: white;">When crossing my “T’s” or crossing the street,</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #b45f06; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; background-color: white;"><span style="background-color: white;">Birds fly above me, worms under my feet.</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #b45f06; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; background-color: white;"><span style="background-color: white;">Each cross stitch I make, so careful and true</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #b45f06; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">A mirror of the word in all that I do.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #b45f06; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The sun is in my heart</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #b45f06; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">And wakens life and love</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #b45f06; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Are shining in my mind</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #b45f06; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The earth whereon I tread</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #b45f06; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Then must I thankful be</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #b45f06; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">That man on earth I dwell</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #b45f06; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">To love and work the world</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: normal;"><span 6.5pt="" ar-sa="" en-gb="" en-us="" mso-ansi-language:="" mso-bidi-font-size:="" mso-bidi-language:="" mso-fareast-font-family:="" mso-fareast-language:="" new="" roman="" style="font-size: 12pt;" times=""><span style="background-color: white; color: #990000; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">A Fly and A Flea</span></span></span></div>
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<span 6.5pt="" ar-sa="" en-gb="" en-us="" mso-ansi-language:="" mso-bidi-font-size:="" mso-bidi-language:="" mso-fareast-font-family:="" mso-fareast-language:="" new="" roman="" style="font-size: 12pt;" times=""></span></span></span>
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="line-height: normal;"><span 6.5pt="" ar-sa="" en-gb="" en-us="" mso-ansi-language:="" mso-bidi-font-size:="" mso-bidi-language:="" mso-fareast-font-family:="" mso-fareast-language:="" new="" roman="" style="background-color: white; color: #990000; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;" times="">Said the fly to the flea, "What shall we do?"</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="line-height: normal;"><span 6.5pt="" ar-sa="" en-gb="" en-us="" mso-ansi-language:="" mso-bidi-font-size:="" mso-bidi-language:="" mso-fareast-font-family:="" mso-fareast-language:="" new="" roman="" style="background-color: white; color: #990000; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" times="">"Let's flee," said the fly.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #cccccc;"><span style="line-height: normal;"><span 6.5pt="" ar-sa="" en-gb="" en-us="" mso-ansi-language:="" mso-bidi-font-size:="" mso-bidi-language:="" mso-fareast-font-family:="" mso-fareast-language:="" new="" roman="" style="background-color: white; color: #990000; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" times="">So they fluttered and flew up a flaw in the flue.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #990000; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">"Come o'er the meadow with me and play.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #990000; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">As soon as the leaves heard the wind's low call,</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #990000; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">See the bee How selflessly She toils to bring the honey home.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #073763; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span style="background-color: white;">I look out into the world</span></span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span style="background-color: white; letter-spacing: 0px;">Wherein there shines the Sun</span></span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span style="background-color: white; letter-spacing: 0px;">Where glimmer all the stars,</span></span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span style="background-color: white; letter-spacing: 0px;">Where lie the silent stones</span></span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span style="background-color: white; letter-spacing: 0px;">The plants that live and grow</span></span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span style="background-color: white; letter-spacing: 0px;">The beasts that feel and move</span></span><span style="background-color: white; letter-spacing: 0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Where man in soul creates</span></span><span style="background-color: white; letter-spacing: 0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">A dwelling for the spirit.</span></span><span style="background-color: white; letter-spacing: 0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">I look inward to the soul</span></span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">That lives within my being</span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">The spirit of God is weaving</span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">In sunlight and in soul-life</span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">In heights of world without</span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">In depths of soul within.</span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Spirit of God to thee</span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">I turn myself in seeking</span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">That strength and grace and skill</span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">For learning and for work</span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">May live and grow in me.</span><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">-</span></span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Rudolf Steiner</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #073763; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span><span style="border: 0px none; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: white;"><u>The Water Cycle</u></span></span><span style="background-color: white;">Water hard as iron,</span><span style="background-color: white;">Water flowing free,</span><span style="background-color: white;">Water floating light as air,</span><span style="background-color: white;">Water one in three.</span><span style="background-color: white;">Vapour rising skyward,</span><span style="background-color: white;">Falls to earth as rain,</span><span style="background-color: white;">Flows in river, stream and sea</span><span style="background-color: white;">To rise as cloud again.</span><span style="background-color: white;">Lifting skyward, falling earthward,</span><span style="background-color: white;">Ever on the move,</span><span style="background-color: white;">Thus the cycle of all life</span><span style="background-color: white;">Comes and goes on earth.</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #073763; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span><span style="border: 0px none; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: white;">Bean bag</span></span><span style="border: 0px none; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: white;">(for the exercise of turning the bean bag around his hips. Each verse is a complete turn)</span></span><span style="border: 0px none; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: white;">Round About</span></span><span style="background-color: white;">Round the coppice</span><span style="background-color: white;">Round the trees,</span><span style="background-color: white;">Round the woods</span><span style="background-color: white;">With the rustling leaves;</span><span style="background-color: white;">Round the tree trunk,</span><span style="background-color: white;">Round the stem:</span><span style="background-color: white;">Round about</span><span style="background-color: white;">And home again.</span><span style="background-color: white;">- Paul King</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #990000; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Beside me, my loved ones, and all around</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #990000; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Fire and water and air abound.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #990000; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Above, below; near and wide;</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #990000; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Behind, before, and either side :</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #990000; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The encompassing world lies far and nigh,</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #990000; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">And in the centre, here stand I.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #990000; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"><i><span style="color: purple; font-family: "comic sans ms";"></span></i><span style="color: purple; font-family: "comic sans ms";"></span></span><br /></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #990000; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Our work is done, our day is past,</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #990000; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">We'll go our separate ways.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #990000; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">And I will hold so tight and fast </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #990000; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">What I have learned today.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #990000; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I've</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> given with my heart and mind</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #990000; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The effort that it needs.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #990000; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">And I will strive in me to find,</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #990000; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Good thoughts, good words, good deeds.</span><br />
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<i><span style="background-color: white; color: #990000; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Potter</span></i></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #990000; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #990000; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The potter sits at his potter’s stool </span></span></div>
<span style="background-color: white; color: #990000; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">And the wheel turns round on its stand, </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #990000; font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Upon it he throws a lump of clay </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #990000; font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Which wobbles and bumps in his hand. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #990000; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="line-height: normal;"> </span><o:p style="line-height: normal;"> </o:p></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #990000; font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Slowly and surely he centres the clay </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #990000; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Till it’s steady and ready to form: </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #990000; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Only by finding a centre still</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #990000; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Can a pot of clay be born.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman";"><span style="color: #990000; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: xx-small;"><i style="background-color: white;">-Paul King</i></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #073763; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Ending Verse:</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #073763; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Our time for now has ended. </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #073763; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Our hands may come to rest. </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #073763; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">We thank our hands both left and right, </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #073763; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">for helping us to do our best.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #134f5c;"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Now it is time for our hands to rest </span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #134f5c;"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">they have down their work they have done their best</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #134f5c; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Work together,</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #134f5c; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Hands and heart.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #134f5c; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Truth and beauty,</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #134f5c; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">are never apart.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #134f5c; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Then I say,</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #134f5c; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">"Follow your heart,</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #134f5c; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">in all that you think,</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #134f5c; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">in all that you say,</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #134f5c; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and all that you do."</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #134f5c; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">______________________</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #134f5c; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #134f5c; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #134f5c; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">May our hands complete our work with patience,</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #134f5c; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">May our work be done with care,</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #134f5c; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">May our fingers work as friends together,</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #134f5c; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">And may we our friendship share.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #134f5c; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Now our time is over</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #134f5c; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Our time for now is done</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #134f5c; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Our busy hands have served us well</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #134f5c; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Head, hands, heart are one.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Footnote: many have been borrowed from these web sites.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #134f5c; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">http://www.straightlineandcurve.co.uk/class_1_main_lessons.htm</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #134f5c; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">http://www.angelfire.com/or/cmcquoid/VersesandSongs.htm</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #134f5c; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">http://www.lapappadolce.net/waldorf-poems-and-verses-in-english/?lang=en</span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-size: large;">This is Madder on grey wool and a bit of white wool (left side). I have so many shades of this on the grey wool - but forgot photos - Ill put them up tomorrow when I have natural light. </span><span style="color: #660000; font-size: large;">All are mordant with Alum and CoT.</span><span style="color: #660000; font-size: large;"> </span><br />
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<span style="color: #741b47;">I have caught the next wave of natural dyeing. Eco printing with leaves by steaming them onto paper. I then sew them into handmade books. I love paper, I always have. I have rolls and pads and sheets of it all tucked away all over my house. I am slowly printing with all of it so joy of joys I will have to replace my stock when the next sale hits. This is super easy to do - collect leaves. I collect 4 kinds - Beech, SweetGum, Oak and Maples. I do however collect from different trees and from different times of the Fall season. Some of them have been pressed and dried and some are picked straight off the tree at the time of stemming. I rarely keep records as I have no intention of repeating what I get and live in the joy of spontaneity. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #741b47;"> Here is a bundle of papers after its been steamed and the strings are cut off ready to be opened.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #741b47;">This paper won't be stable as I threw some iron powder on it before steaming - its gives a really cool coppery color but Im sure the paper will rust straight thru to the next page so I will just look at it or hang it on the wall as is.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #741b47;">SweetGum Tree - one of my favorite trees. When it changes color in the Fall it does so with so many beautiful colors. Green, yellow, orange, red, burgundy to brown. Its just spectacular. All the colors from this one work really well for eco printing.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #741b47;">This one is a bit of a cheat - red onion skins :)</span></div>
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<span style="color: #741b47;">When you layer the papers with the leaves (meaning- no blank papers with no leaves in between) you get a mixed bag of prints all over the place, a print from both sides of the leaves. This makes it really hard if you get something spectacular on both sides of the paper. But then again that is great for book bookbinding.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #741b47;"> I received the most beautiful colors this time around. This was done with dry paper but the leaves were soaked in iron water before I layered them out - only a few minutes - then steamed for 4 hours. I can never wait so I always undo the bundle before it dries. Happy Printing.</span></div>
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I always have extra yarns around when I simmer up this many colors and dye bits and pieces. I have finally knit up a little swatch to show them off. </div>
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<span style="color: #38761d;">Greens are everywhere in nature especially in summer but it is really hard to achieve in natural dyeing without over dyeing (combining two colors). Indigo and goldenrod have to be my favorite color combinations - they greens I are given are spectacular and I like to leave the finished color all around the house so I can just look at it as I pass by. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d;">I was dyeing two different yarns - Bartlett and Brown Sheep - both produce wonderful greens but spectacularly different even pulled from the same pot at the same time.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #134f5c;">Here are the finished custom naturally dyed yarns for Green Meadow Waldorf School. You too could have spectacular color just drop me an email by stoping by my Etsy shop, I dye yarns, loose wool and some natural cloth.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394;">Used the Indigo pot to dye some cloths for the obligatory Family Beach shot - I think its going to be great this year.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394;">Once again I am dyeing the wool yarn for Green Meadow Waldorf School This always gets me excited because I collect a lot of dye stuff for pots and couldn't possible use it all myself. Willow tree tips, onions skins, marigolds, bloodroot, goldenrod, coreopsis, mint, black walnuts, lichen and mushrooms galore. The list is endless and I always have a pot on the stove cooking or "waiting" in the corner. For these yarns I always use alum and cream of tartar for the mordant and at most I might use a bit of washing soda to change the Ph of the water. This year I used the stream to rinse most of the yarns to cut back on using the electricity for the pump - its amazing how much water just flows by the house - I need to use that more often.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394;">Yarn drying after the mordant process so I could store it before I used it. There was a lot of yarn this year - almost double and I'm not done yet - just a few more over-dyeing to go. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394;">I found many great oranges this year. As always its so much fun to lay out the rainbow of colors and photograph them. I will get them all out soon let you see.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394;">Onion Skins, tansy, goldenrod, osage orange all used one at a time but in the same pot so by the end it was all mixed up.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #cc0000; font-size: large;">We started off by putting plastic labels on the skeins, then pre-soaking the fibers in water. I had already mordanted the skeins prior to class in Alum & Cream of Tartar. After adding the dye stuff which was - <u>Sage brush</u> ( I collected some branches when I went out west a few years ago), dried<u> Marigold</u> flower heads, <u>Red Onion skins</u>, <u>Madder</u> and then a <u>lichen</u> I had soaking in an ammonia bath for a month - after about 45 minutes of hot soaking we then strained the bath thru mesh and cheesecloth.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #073763; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I had so much fun this weekend. It took way too much time, but to play with melting swirling colors in small pots? Im all over that! I used an old yard sale pot as a double boiler with washed out cans. I did sacrifice my old brocolli steamer but it was worth it. None of these items will ever be usable again for anything but melting wax. I thought I would be all careful (Im a very neat painter) but this was too much to ask - wax gets everywhere, just one drop in the water and its a mess. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #073763; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">If you hold the tips of the cans you can usually pull them out of boiling water with just a paper towel for protection - they are not that hot. I also waxed up a potholder unnecessarily.</span></div>
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<span style="text-align: start;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">I was hopeful when the seeds showed up this past April. They were lovingly planted and hope sprung up as seedlings. Successfully planted in the garden the plants grew nicely. The 7 plants I planted branched out and created a nice clump of leaves and small flowers, see the weld in front too.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394;">I clipped quite a few leaves (after flowering) and fermented them in a mason jar for more than a week. Don't forget to hold our nose when you open it up Outside! The smell is overwelming. I heated up this to 140 degrees for a couple of hours. I then sifted out the leafs and squeezed out all the indigo I could. Re soaking the bundle and squeezing some more. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394;"> Unlike indigo crystals, you need to leave your fiber in the indigo vat for 20-30 minutes each dip. The liquid is a beautiful brown yellow and then when you pull out the fiber its such a thrill to watch it turn from yellow to green to blue. YAY. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394;">I also have the left over flowers hanging in the kitchen. They were pollenated and now since it turned too cold to seed outside, I cut them and brought them inside. After a day or so I will place a bag over them to catch the tiny black seeds when they start to fall. Hopefully.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13;">I swoon every time late August arrives because it signals the return of my favorite plant dye flower.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13;">The yellow it gives in fields and dye pots is by far my favorite. I thought I would lay out a few mordant and after dip combinations I have done. There isn't much a difference in yellows - the ammonia after dip warms it up considerably - but the iron after dip is quite significant. There is a difference in color depending on the wool/yarn you choose. Its always important to do your own tests. When you do your tests make sure you use to correct per portion of dye to weight of yarn. If you make up your "full" dye pot but dip in test yarns remember that the tests will produce a darker color than if you had put in your full amount of yarn. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13;">When I make a pot of goldenrod dye I fill my pot full of blossom tips. The tips are fresh and barely open. The older the flower the saddened the color will be, but if your going to add iron anyway to get that great green it would be fine. Plus in November and the last flowers are blooming I grab them anyway. I have two frozen bags of fresh flowers in the freezer and plan on using them this winter - I'll post the results here in an update to see if they produce anything different. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13;">I have over dyed goldenrod and indigo and receive the most gorgeous greens you ever have seen. I also have a great time achieving oranges with cochineal. Ill try to post that next.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #274e13;">Remember its not the lovely goldenrod that is making you sneeze but the ragweed that grows next to it - so marvel in the beauty of goldenrod and enjoy its splendor of color.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #274e13;">I am also happy to report that I am once again the <a href="http://thacawaldorf.org/" target="_blank">Handwork Teacher for the Ithaca Waldorf School in Ithaca, NY</a>. I start tomorrow and I will hopefully take up this blog to track my comings and goings of teaching this year and future years.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3d85c6;">Attended a lovely workshop presented by :</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3d85c6;">Very informative class with wonderful thick paper handouts (small things make the difference sometimes) and color photos of the mushroom in our area! I really appreciated the class was representative of what mushrooms are in our own backyard. Sometimes searching brings up mushrooms that are only in Australia, for example and its always a let down. <a href="https://www.facebook.com/MushroomDyersTradingPost" target="_blank">However she told us about her "swap page" on FB where you can trade :) </a> I hope to start foraging as soon as the weather breaks. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6fa8dc;">Well, this trip wasn't really short - it takes about 4 hours to get there from home. The family loves to travel, so it was quite easy. Plus, the lore of a swimming pool (at the hotel) was enough to get them excited. Got to Doylsetown PA by lunchtime. Had a quick bit to eat - burgers and onion rings of corse and then headed over to the</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6fa8dc;">where we had a tour set up for 2:30pm. Photographs are not allowed on grounds but let me tell you the tour director was fantastic. Telling stories and interesting tid bits that kept my eldest asking questions. Really informative and the hour tour ran a bit long. SO much to look at. It's a cement poured house that <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;">Henry Chapman Mercer commissioned, he</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"> </span></span>always ment it as a living museum. All the tiles works (and there are WAY too many to count) that are on display were made in the Moravian Factory that is only a few steps away. He lived there with many people coming to visit. Never married or had children so this place stayed as it was with all his books and collections all throughout the house. Just incredible collections of items too, lots of things hanging from hooks and such. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6fa8dc;">Then we walked over to the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/Moravian-Pottery-and-Tile-Works/165902413463267" target="_blank">Moravian Pottery and Tile Works - Museum and Factory</a> - I would go to their Facebook page -you get more information there. Very interesting history and I was thrilled to walk around and see the working kilns and talk with a few tile workers.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6fa8dc;">This is the clay storage room in the dank basement of the castle. It smells like my old damp box at the Cornell Pot Shop. Its sort of a moist fermented mold earth smell - and I love it. My boys ran from the room holding their noses, Haa ha.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6fa8dc;">Turns out a few years ago I purchased a Moravian Tile at a yardsale. Its of a tree and its from the 1974 production - they year they started the factory back up. Yay I bought another tree tile and a little bee to go with it. Off to the hotel for a swim and dinner. What a luxury to stay in a hotel room - free breakfast and swam twice. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6fa8dc;">Highly recommend this town - the weather wasn't the greatest for walking around the little streets and shops, as we got a bit soaked, but really enjoyed ourselves. It would be nice to go back during the summer.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6fa8dc;">The boys had off school all last week so my husband and I took off on a bunch of day trips and played tourists to our local cities. First we went to Syracuse to see:</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6fa8dc;">A Boat show at the State Fair Grounds (I dropped off the boys and I went to ...) - A Fiber Mill! </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6fa8dc;">Got a call that night to then go to the worlds best sledding hill in Ithaca - Rice Hill - it's so big you have to be driven back to the top. Lots of fun and it was cold and the snow was packed down from the kids the day before so sledding was great.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #e69138; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small;">-Dry harvested gourds for one year to make Thanksgiving rattles.</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #e69138; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small;">-Carve a pumpkin and save the seeds to plant in late spring.</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #e69138; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small;">-Pick up pecans or other edible nuts to crack with a wooden mallet and eat.</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #e69138; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small;">-Plant spring bulbs.</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #e69138; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small;">-Harvest garden produce, herbs, or flowers for plant dying.</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #e69138; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small;">-Plant-dye fabric for Michaelmas and other festivals.</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #e69138; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small;">-Dry herbs to make tea, potpourri, scented pillows as gifts.</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #e69138; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small;">-Thresh grain to grind for bread.</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #e69138; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small;">-Rake leaves or the sand box.</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #e69138; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small;">-Spread wood chips or mulch.</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #e69138; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"></span><br /></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #e69138; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small;">Winter</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #e69138; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small;">-Build and maintain a bird feeder.</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #e69138; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small;">-String whole peanuts or apple slices for the birds.</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #e69138; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small;">-Fill terra cotta flower pots with lard and sunflower seeds for the birds.</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #e69138; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small;">-Build snow men.</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #e69138; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small;">-Shovel snow for paths.</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #e69138; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small;">***Cut ice blocks for igloos.</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #e69138; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"></span><br /></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #e69138; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small;">Spring</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #e69138; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small;">-Spread compost for new garden plantings.</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #e69138; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small;">-Plant pumpkin, gourd, or other seeds.</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #e69138; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small;">-Plant flowering plants, summer bulbs, etc.</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #e69138; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small;">-Make flower necklaces and garlands.</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #e69138; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small;">-Make horse reins using finger knitting and a felt chest cover.</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #e69138; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small;">-Gather fresh moss for the nature table.</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #e69138; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small;">-Wash windows with vinegar/water and dry with old newspaper.</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #e69138; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small;">-Wash wool fleece. Use it for felting projects.</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #e69138; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small;">-Help the children make a foot felting wall hanging for the classroom.</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #e69138; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"></span><br /></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #e69138; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small;">Summer</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #e69138; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small;">-Blow bubbles with a bubble pipe made from straws or hollow pithy twigs reamed out with a screw and cut into small pieces.</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #e69138; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small;">-Wash outdoor tools, toys, furniture.</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #e69138; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small;">-Create a large outdoor weaving using vines, flowers, yarn, roving, grasses, and other found objects.</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #e69138; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"></span><br /></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #e69138; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"><u>Anytime of the year</u></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #e69138; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small;">-Weed the garden.</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #e69138; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small;">-Water the plants.</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #e69138; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small;">-Turn and sift compost.</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #e69138; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small;">-Turn the jump rope.</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #e69138; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small;">-Organize outside storage shed.</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #e69138; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small;">-Cut corners from painting/drawing paper.</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #e69138; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small;">-Untangle classroom ropes.</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #e69138; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small;">-Pick up trash.</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #e69138; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small;">-Clear the underbrush from a pathway in a forested area.</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #e69138; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small;">-Build a tepee or hut in the woods with fallen sticks and vines.</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #e69138; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small;">-Sweep walkways. Help the children to make little brooms by attaching pine needle clusters to a stick with yarn.</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #e69138; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small;">***Make a broom.</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #e69138; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small;">-Care for kindergarten animals.</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #e69138; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small;">***Handwork: felting, sewing, knitting, crocheting, drop spindle.</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #e69138; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small;">-Clean painting boards with nail brush.</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #e69138; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small;">-Make a bench from two tree trunks and a plank nailed in place.</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #e69138; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small;">-Make a chair from a tree stump by cutting a log from the top halfway, then from the side to form a seat. Sand till smooth, then finish with oil and beeswax polish.</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #e69138; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small;">-Saw wood or branches.</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #e69138; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small;">-Sand woodwork items and toys.</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #e69138; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small;">-Sand cutting boards with fine sandpaper, then re-wax with beeswax paste.</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #e69138; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small;">-Sand the wooden play structure when splinters are found.</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #e69138; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small;">-Split logs with a hammer and wedge. Help the children to make a pretend hatchet from a stick and a large wood chip tied together with yarn.</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #e69138; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small;">-Make clothes pins from split sticks wrapped with wire.</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #e69138; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small;">-Mend toys, fences, furniture, etc.</span></span></div>
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<br />woolladyfelterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16147478664615195856noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7878519635050397869.post-22741721111550331582014-01-23T11:16:00.001-05:002014-04-22T11:23:49.728-04:00Winter Plant Dyeing - Peach to Yellows<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #e69138;"> Here is a lovely Finn sheep from my friend</span> <a href="http://www.oneearthpermaculture.org/" style="color: #93c47d;" target="_blank">Erika's family farm</a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #93c47d;"> - oneearthpermaculture.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #e69138;">The Finn wool roving goes into a mixed yellow dye, made from my gardens dried flowers from my garden this past summer. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6aa84f;">Now, I have been working with Indigo for many years now. Natural, cakes, freeze dried, so I don't call myself a novice anymore. Dyeing with Indigo is always tricky. Sometimes its just not ment for certain yarns, like the Bartlett fisherman yarn. The wonderful natural oils that they leave in there just prevent the indigo from biting. I even presoaked and scoured the yarn with no avail. It ran clear but when it dried it still crocked off, when from the same pot I pulled the Brown sheep yarn with no crocking.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6fa8dc;">What better use of the sun but solar power dye. Gather ye rose beds... or in my case goldenrod, marigold, coreopsis, black eyed susan and one black walnut cut into pieces, in each jar.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6fa8dc;"> This is what it looked like after a few hours. I plan to let it soak overnight and unwrap tomorrow...</span></div>
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