Month: April 2011

I stained the deck on our new front porch this weekend. Now rain beads up on the wood.

This glove is woven from a nomex/kevlar mix.

Belgian lace tablecloth.

Good old American blue jeans.

The word Velcro is a portmanteau of the two French words velours and crochet.

Whoever came up with microsuede is a genius.

This is a shirt I wear as half jacket, half shirt. It’s an unlined canvas shirt from Bean, perfect for early spring days like today.

I’m trying a theme this week; we’ll see how interesting it is.  The theme is fabric: I’ll be doing closeups of some different types of woven & knit materials.

Today’s fabric is the cotton webbing I am using to redo the seats of our dining room chairs.

I’m replacing the old blue seat tape on our Shaker-style chairs. I origially built these chairs (from a kit) 16 years ago and the original tape is a bit the worse for wear; I’m also regluing some of the joints. The new color goes better in the new dining room.

Today I built a table for our porch out of leftover deck boards.