Baby, it's cold outside

I started this post on the weekend and poof - it disappeared.

I'm trying to remember what it was about... but it was cold enough to stay home, except for my weekly visit to my mother, and create.

Ah, it's coming back to me.  I made another silk scarf from tie leftovers.  I say another because I had previously made one and gifted it to my mother.  

My mother's was made with strips laid horizontally.  The second was made by random piecing.

And this is how they are done:

I used a white 5mm pongee silk 11.25" wide X 60" long.

I first laid out a piece of cotton in the same dimension.

Then I laid the tie pieces as a mosaic on half of the scarf length.

Folded the second half of the scarf over the first.
Rolled the "sandwich" tightly from the narrow end into the roll below.

The roll was then inserted into a pot (dedicated to art, no food!!) and left to simmer for 20 minutes.  I have a rock I use to weigh down the roll.  Twice I have been asked by family members if I'm cooking stone soup...

And this is what came out:

I prefer the horizontal strips, of which I have many.

BTW, the idea is not mine.  I saw it on a youtube video  T, but apparently this project was in Quilting Arts Magazine, October/November 2010, using lengths of ties.  I only have cut-offs left from The Torah Tie Project.

Oh.  I also reviewed my Tu B'Shvat box and found this table runner I made a few years ago with my granddaughter.

We also made these wine glass charms for the 4 cups of wine/grape juice at the Tu B'Shvat seder.

And this downloaded Haggada which I hope to condense into a one page double-sided laminated version for this year.