It's Friday, but I won't be posting about food. I have the sinus Yucks once again. Luckily I had cooked too much shabbat dinner on previous weeks so I just pulled chicken and challah out of the freezer and they are warming up in the oven as I type. Despite feeling crummy I have actually gotten chunks of work done this week. Accompanying me in my work has been an excellent podcast, Sew What . Any of my readers who are textile junkies will enjoy it. Wednesday I baked a bread. I had left a bit of dough from a batch I had baked last week in a bowl in the fridge.That old dough served as the starter for this loaf. I included some fine bulgur wheat in the dough. Before baking the bread I dampened the loaf with water, sprinkled flour over the dough and then scored the loaf. It tasted as good as it looks. I began working on Judith's atara. I started with some block printing on the silk. Then I drafted the letters on some cardstock with a square tipped paint brush. I had made the l...
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