Two Weeks to Get Ready

I usually leave preparations for workshops until the last minute, but since I had to gather a number of tools and materials from several sources, I started early this year. The first item from Joan's supply list that I searched for was a North respirator with organic/acid gas cartridges. I had already checked the respirator that I got five or six years ago, but it had been stored in our garage for at least five years and the cartridges were corroded and the mask brittle.

Since I live in a very small town in rural middle Georgia I am accustomed to shopping online, so I checked several safety equipment sites and found that Airgas had the best combined price and shipping rate for the exact items that Joan had specified.  The mask and cartridges arrived within 48 hours and I feel as if I'm prepared for just about anything!

A week or so ago my husband was in Lowe's in Milledgeville, Georgia, the closest town that has a large home improvement store and picked up an eight-foot length of 6" diameter PVC pipe for pole-wrapped shibori. When he unloaded it at home we realized that it was ten feet long rather than eight. I wanted a four-foot length, he wanted three feet of it and, well, there's three feet of pipe left over.

If you are attending Joan's workshop with me and need a three-foot-long piece of 6" PVC, email me or leave a comment at the end of this post and I'll save it for you. It'll be $3.50 for the piece, which is what it cost me.