Laundry – Ruth E. Hendricks Photography

Socks in a Basket

As I folded the pairs, I realized all the hand knit socks I’d made (plus one spring green pair knit my Sabine Bornemann at Die Wollnerin in Berlin) were clean at the same time. It’s the second time I’ve washed all of them since shelter in place started. I read that Sabine’s hand dyed yarn store in Berlin has now reopened, allowing two customers at a time

Lots of places and friends represented by the different yarns from Alaska, Germany, Norway, Arizona, New Zealand, Florida. Can you find the yarn I received for my July 4th birthday? (thanks Joanne). The sock monkey pair? There’s the desert plant dyed yarn and gifts from woolswappers halfway across the globe.

My new method is the hand wash setting on the machine and hung out to air dry in my bathroom. I used to hand wash them and roll in a towel.

My daughter’s sock drawer she texted me pic a year ago. I see ***Wonder Woman*** and **Good and Plenty**

April 26, 2020 by Ruth Categories: knitting, PhotographyTags: available light, Berlin, hand knit socks, home, knitting, Laundry, photography, Pittsburgh, postaday, shelter in place, socks 17 Comments

Dirty Dungarees Dry Cleaning Laundry Pub

My six word Saturday

High Street, Columbus Ohio

November 10, 2018 by Ruth Categories: Photography, Six Word SaturdayTags: #SixWordSaturday, Columbus OH, Dirty Dungarees, dry cleaning, dungarees, High Street, Laundry, photography, postaday, Pub, Six Word Saturday, travel 7 Comments

Wash Separately Even After Six Years

Wash separately even after six years. My six word Saturday post.

These are handknit socks I made at least six years ago and they still turn the water pink every time.

When I was a kid, my mother called a red flannel nightgown that bled in the wash “a sinner”.

Have you ever had a laundry disaster with a color item that ran onto light items?

October 26, 2018October 26, 2018 by Ruth Categories: PhotographyTags: color, handknit socks, knitting, Laundry, laundry instructions, pedestal sink, photography, postaday, Six Word Saturday, wash, washing, yarn 12 Comments

Oh, Hello Linens Truck

I was parked on Butler Street in Lawrenceville.

My phone in hand.

A truck pulled up to the red light alongside my car -and stopped. I felt a presence. Looked up and out the driver’s window.

Oh, hello there!

Light turned green. The chef appeared. The truck pulled away into the flow of traffic.

October 19, 2018 by Ruth Categories: PhotographyTags: Butler Street, city scene, Cleancarelinen, Laundry, Lawrenceville, linens, photography, Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh PA, postaday, red light, traffic, truck 6 Comments

Maura’s Knitting Knotted Up the Wash

This post is dedicated to my friend V who recently spent a lot of time last week untangling a seriously tangled skein of yarn… I thought of her the whole time I persisted on the following mess.

My granddaughter Maura’s knitting got into the laundry inadvertently.

Went through the washing machine and knotted up the load.

Erika was going to cut it out but I spent time Saturday morning untangling the knotty mess. What satisfaction to detangle the twists and knots. Plain yarn is easier to untangle than fluffy yarn.

Now where is the other needle?

January 7, 2017January 7, 2017 by Ruth Categories: knitting, PhotographyTags: Frustration, granddaughter, knitting, knot, Laundry, photography, postaday 21 Comments

Winter Afternoon Rainbows

Light through the dining room chandelier in Ohio.

I was folding sheets and towels, fresh from the dryer.

The afternoon sun streamed in, through the window and then the dangling crystal, onto the door jamb and the sweater drying on the laundry room door. The ceiling, too.

Vibrant gallery 2

The colors intense and vibrant.

January 30, 2016 by Ruth Categories: PhotographyTags: family, Laundry, photography, postaday, rainbows, refracted light, vibrant, weekly photo challenge, winter afternoon 13 Comments

Weekly Photo Challenge: Split-Second Story

A do-over. Redo.

Second chance on a single frame telling a story for the

split-second story challenge

Outside a downtown hotel.

June 1, 2014June 1, 2014 by Ruth Categories: PhotographyTags: downtown hotel, hotel, hotel laundry, housekeeping, Laundry, linen service, photography, Pittsburgh PA, postaday, weekly photo Challenge: split-second story 6 Comments

How One Looks at Dryer Lint

Last week I emptied the dryer at my son and DIL’s. Thought I’d help out, fold a load.

When I cleaned out the lint trap, I found a tri-layered catch of fresh dryer lint. The striation helped out by the load of new white towels.

I put the dryer lint on the counter above the garbage and saw the face of a sock monkey.

“Erika”, I said, “let me save the dryer lint and show the kids in the morning, It’s striped and looks like a sock monkey.”

Hmmmm. I decided to take a pic on the phone instead and throw it in the trash cause I didn’t think she was seeing the face and she hadn’t been to the dryer lint art show at the Duds ‘N Suds Laundromat on Centre Ave here in Pittsburgh, a few years ago. I took some friends and it was a memorable and quirky event. The laundromat had that detergent, steamy scent. The people and scenes were all made from none other than DRYER LINT! You know how different loads offer different colors, frequently gray but sometimes a lovely hue, depending on the clothes or sheets.

My DIL had no idea there was a National Lint Project and that artist Cheryl Capezutti creates art from such a catch. You can go to her website and see her creations.

What I should have done is send the batch of lint to the artist Cheryl Capezutti and she could have created a winged creature or a tiny figure. She finds art in the everyday.

My lint screen here at home in Pittsburgh isn’t as interesting a shape, either. Erika’s is a half moon and mine is a flat, broad screen.

June 5, 2013June 5, 2013 by Ruth Categories: PhotographyTags: art, Cheryl Capezutti, dryer lint, family, household chores, humor, laundromat, Laundry, National Lint Project, postaday, sculpture 15 Comments

Fights Bathtub Ring- Do People Ask to Be Taken Away By It? They Still Sell This Stuff

Wondering what year they packaged in this wrapper? Maybe an updated version is available in the grocery store, I will check. You can buy it online. It was heralded as a stress reliever and solution to a woman feeling overwhelmed by her life. “Calgon, take me away!”

Our custodian, Dan, found a case of this product and not sure what year the packaging is from. I meant to look and see if it had a zip code on it as I used to find items in the art room pre 1964 without a zip code. They still sell this stuff when I went to look it up in a search. I guess I am out of touch.

At first I thought this was just for the washing machine but it says “bathtub ring’ .

Here is one vintage commercial touting a similar product that is sure to offend someone with the retro thinking.

Not sure if anyone is still trying to get taken away with Calgon bath but here is one old TV commercial. There is another that is totally non PC that may come to your min and is on YouTube but I won’t link it.

March 5, 2013March 5, 2013 by Ruth Categories: PhotographyTags: advertising, bath, bathtub ring, Calgon Water Softener, Laundry, offensive to women, retro commercial, stress relief, television, water softener, women 13 Comments

Laundry on Line in Croatia

December 20, 2012December 20, 2012 by Ruth Categories: Photography, Photos from CroatiaTags: architecture, Croatia, home, Laundry, photography, postaday, travel, window 6 Comments

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