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A Tule Fog in California's Sacramento/San Joquin Delta
Susan's Living in the Historic Land of Tules These Days! |
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| Bruce - "Scored Mom's Boho Bed!" |
This month’s show is *A Very Fitting Sewing Day with Susan*Recently I went to visit with my buddy, Susan, and her household’s two dogs, Bruce and Bain. You’ll hear Bain’s comments at various times during the show, just the way you occasionally hear some of the audio from things in my house like the train that runs just behind our yard. I’m partial to including a little locally occurring audio ,because it adds another sense to the personal journal style of the show.
Don’t you feel like you know Susan by now? I’m always mentioning her and the time we’ve spent together in this show. This month I got a chance to share a sewing day at Susan’s house with you. It started out as an interview, but it became a duologue – even when I cut out several of the places where I interrupted!
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| Bain - "Aren't I a Good Dog?" |
Pensamientos Primeros/First Thoughts . . . we talked about our sewing relationship and some of the non-sewing things that give you a sense of who Susan is and what drew us together.
Entonces/Then . . . we talked about some of the things that she learned about fitting patterns, that I’ve benefitted from over the past couple years.
This month's Pensamientos Finales/Final Thoughts . . . are scattered throughout the show as we each share with you a little something about where Susan is living. The area she’s recently moved to has a very long-term historic role in agriculture and pre-agriculture, within California, that has provided people with both food, fabric, and more, for over 4,000 years.
Susan
designed and sewed these
San Francisco Giants take-it-to-the-game cold drinks bags for a number of lucky relatives for Christmas presents.
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| Blue Ice fits inside |
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After the interview Susan and I talked more about our sewing plans
We both liked Vogue V1412 for her
Recently she texted me to say that she has started working on it |
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A Threads Article about the book Susan talked about in this interview, Fitting and Pattern Alteration by Elizabeth Leichty, Judith Rasband and Della Pottberg-Steineckert
Discovery Bay: Geography and Agriculture Interest
Tule Fog
Invasive water hyacinth threatens the Delta http://www.mercurynews.com/my-town/ci_27358407/delta-water-weed-problems-called-worst-years I was reading up on Discovery Bay, which is in the Sacramento/San Joquin delta, cause my buddy lives there. You read a lot of CA history about the San Francisco Bay and Golden Gate in relation to first nations people, European explorers and Gold Rush, but less about the agricultural and natural harvesting food value of the Delta region to people over the last 4,000 plus years - which continues today. Looks like these creepy little weeds have a big impact on the value of this region. Unclear how they arrived, but invasive plants have a way of doing that and the drought has made the situation worse...
