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Little tiny bit of growing on the homefront, despite a recent evening snowfall.
First, Frosty the fuzzy echeveria has decided to procreate.
There are two teeny fuzzies popping up from the stem.
Then, on the gangly cane plant I rescued from they alley a few summers ago, there are spouts on the two stalks I lopped off in the fall.
Tons of sprouts. Three on one, four on the other.
Come spring, I’m going to lop the other two. Their tops are so raggedy.
There’s a thundersnow going on this afternoon, and the dreariness is almost more than I can stand. I spent lunch yesterday fetching some gorgeous plants from a charming craigslist guy about to move — a giant umbrella plant as tall as me in a lovely green pot, fleshy aloe with tall spikes, a flourishing prayer plant — good thing yesterday because today would have been too cold to drive with the umbrella plant sticking out of an open window.
Blah. So in a kitchen bursting with new green plants, I prepare for summer. I threw some awful pastel stuff into dye baths on the stove. A cotton candy pink cardigan with puffy sleeves.
The cutest dusty rose Philly Girls shirt.
A pale green knit dress I already shortened. A fantastic tube dress in a weird beige.
Into the tub! I stir as the snow falls. I check the time when the thunder claps. I will be ready when the sun shines, ready in sundresses and cardigans, in hemmed pants that fit right, in t-shirts cute enough to bike around in. It’s my inaugural Rit.
Make hay while the sun shines; make clothes while the snow keeps coming down.
In the end, Philly t-shirt a lovely darker wine color.
Both dresses a wonderful brown. But the bright pink cotton cardigan came out patchy. Reading about Rit, I think it got tangled on other stuff. Wonder if I can throw it back into the dye bath by itself tomorrow? Couldn’t hurt.
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