{"id":957,"date":"2012-08-08T16:41:55","date_gmt":"2012-08-08T16:41:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.argoknot.com\/?p=957"},"modified":"2012-08-09T16:18:50","modified_gmt":"2012-08-09T16:18:50","slug":"feeding-my-disappointment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.argoknot.com\/?p=957","title":{"rendered":"Feeding My Disappointment"},"content":{"rendered":"

I didn’t expect to be writing a post this week. \u00a0I expected<\/em> to be at the IOLI lace convention <\/a>in St. Paul. \u00a0But here I am, at home, sulking a bit….<\/p>\n

I’ve had some health issues that are too boring to write about, and I ended up in the hospital on the night before my flight. \u00a0I spent the weekend recuperating, which mostly means sleeping, and I was just barely awake for a moment or so on Saturday afternoon right when my flight took off. \u00a0Why couldn’t I have slept through that?<\/p>\n

I’m missing a class in Chrysanthemum lace which sounds so intriguing! \u00a0It is lots of little free form pieces, mostly of a tear drop or paisley shape, that are assembled together in a technique called ‘sewing’ that does not involve the kind of sewing one would do to hem a skirt or make a seam, but which I believe involves bringing up loops through the edges of the lace that are then closed to connect the separate pieces of lace together. \u00a0I know.<\/em>…that wasn’t a very good description at all. \u00a0I cannot do better because I haven’t learned it yet.<\/p>\n

Here is a little detail of the ‘sewing’ process:<\/p>\n

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From this book….<\/p>\n

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This book cover gives a good idea of the little curved paisley pieces of lace that are made and assembled into the Chrysanthemum. I imagined myself making a simpler flower that could be used to embellish a silk blouse. \u00a0The lace was to be pale pink on my imaginary bone white silk blouse….<\/p>\n

My class was to be each morning for the week, and I envisioned myself doing lace through the afternoons, shopping in the vendors’ hall, and seeing the lace poppy exhibit<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Today after class, I was going to rent a car to drive to the Swedish American Institute to see \u00a0Helena Hernamarck’s exhibition<\/a> there. \u00a0Big, big sigh….<\/p>\n

I only just tackled unpacking my suitcase today because yesterday the thought of unpacking brought me dangerously close to tears! \u00a0And for the rest of the day I have fed my disappointment….literally….<\/p>\n

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\u00a0I made my second batch of bread based on suggestions I got from a very interesting baker. \u00a0I bought a loaf of his artisanal bread at a local farmers’ market and learned that in addition to baking he also owns a local Italian restaurant<\/a> in Old Saybrook. He bakes bread based on ratios of flour\/water\/yeast\/salt instead of any specific recipe, and he always uses a starter. \u00a0I usually use a starter too, but my bread is not nearly as good as his! \u00a0He gave me his ratios (which he learned at the San Francisco Baking Insitute<\/a>), and he gave me a large bag of high gluten flour. \u00a0He suggested two starter methods: \u00a0a ‘poolish’ which you make yourself, and a ‘biga’ which is based on using leftover pizza dough. \u00a0My first batch was based on my homemade ‘poolish,’ and the bread shown here is based on his ‘biga.’ \u00a0Both techniques are delicious. \u00a0I won’t bother to describe how my husband lined my large oven with ‘reflective’ tiles, nor how I hurl a big scoop of ice cubes into the oven just after I put the bread in to bake….but these are important factors!<\/p>\n

Along with bread, I made my first batch of pesto with basil from the garden, so dinner this evening will be pesto spread on cod filets. \u00a0Tomorrow I hope to pick the first tomato from the garden! \u00a0I will make a sandwich with my bread, spread on a little pesto, \u00a0sliced tomato, and a shaving or two of parmesan…. to assuage my disappointment….<\/p>\n

I know this is absurdly off-topic, but really<\/em>, there is nothing like a day in the kitchen to brighten my spirits….<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I didn’t expect to be writing a post this week. \u00a0I expected to be at the IOLI lace convention in St. Paul. \u00a0But here I am, at home, sulking a bit…. I’ve had some health issues that are too boring to write about, and I ended up in the hospital on the night before my […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bobbin-lace"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.argoknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/957","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.argoknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.argoknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.argoknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.argoknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=957"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.argoknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/957\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":970,"href":"https:\/\/www.argoknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/957\/revisions\/970"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.argoknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.argoknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.argoknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}