Friday, February 22, 2008Art I wove this little piece for the fiber arts show at one of our local galleries. It's not very complicated but I like the way it looks. The loom is one Randy made from our black walnut tree that was downed in the flood of 1997. The yarn is some handspun wool but I've forgotten the breed. I wanted to do a couple in wire, but I'm afraid that I wouldn't be able to get then off the loom and the loom was not intended to be a part of that idea. Other than this the only pieces I have for this show are a felted purse, a little bead purse with an inkle strap, and a blanket/bedspread, none of which I have pictures of yet. My best 'art' ideas are for the recycled show in March. I love recycled art! I'm not going to tell you, tho, in case there's a local reading this to steal my brilliant ideas! I don't get enough of these to share.  And... I've already got one for next years fiber show... unless I get it done and have the opportunity to show it before then, of course. posted @ 08:34 AM PST [link] Tuesday, February 19, 2008Red sky in morning.... They've been predicting some storms again and it looks like Mother Nature is of the same opinion. Not nearly as impressive in this little photo as it is looking out through my window, even looking though the trees. We've had almost two weeks of sunny blue skies so guess we can't complain. The snow had done some shrinking and melting and, except for the mud, that's good. Randy's been busy helping it do that and we can turn in the driveway now so I don't have to back in every time, and can even drive to the shop. He's been busy in the shop, too. filling orders and building up a stock for the summer since we've decided to go to Black Sheep Gathering in Eugene, OR this summer, after all. And we're working on a new loom. One that you can weave like that little plastic or wood loom we all know about and you can only find on ebay these days. I think we've got it, too.  But now I've come down with somebodies 'bug'. Sore throat and headache... today is the first Red Hat get together in quite a while, but I think I'll be missing it.  Hope you're all feeling well & staying warm! posted @ 07:09 AM PST [link] |
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