…my life in the country
Posted in Uncategorized on Sep 25th, 2008
Here’s Randy chipping up what’s left of the Ash we had to take out. His cousin is helping him While I am canning apples. Have two crates of pears to deal with as well. I think I’ll do a couple dozen pints of apples and maybe a dozen of pears and give the rest away. [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Sep 19th, 2008
Well, this is a painting of where they went, anyway. (Not quite finished but… resting) The art web pages and magazines I have been reading all sing the praises of painter who portray Ordinary Things. The paint bicycle racks and piles of old tires… My pie is every bit as ordinary and a lot nicer [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Sep 16th, 2008
The old antique gave up the ghost, or anyway, I can’t seem to sharpen the blade anymore and Randy found this one in a ‘junk’ shop for a dollar. first time I used it. It had a corer attached and it worked very nicely but I really don’t need the apples sliced quite this thin! [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Sep 13th, 2008
Got this pretty spring green chenille at the dollar store and wanted to try it so grabbed up the Multi. The first one I warped as usual and then needle wove using some pink ‘designer’ yarn that I also got at the $ store. It did fine, tho the texture of the designer yarn is [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Sep 9th, 2008
Well, I finished my first bag. I was successful with the Leno lace, tho it doesn’t show very well here since I sewed it together upside down and didn’t notice until i had all the tails nicely woven in. Too bad. Anyway, I wove it on my 2 x 4″ Multi, I don’t (yet!) have [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Sep 8th, 2008
When I needed to loosen the extra loop with the linen yarn on the Multi, as Jana posted in her instruction http://eloomanator.eloomanation.com/?attachment_id=407 I found that the warps would not stay on the pins at first, so I used the old method we used to keep the loops on the pot holder looms for the kids. [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Sep 7th, 2008
Managed to get this one poor picture of Sis at her spinning wheel. Kinko had wandered off so hers was unmanned– un-womaned –that is, when I took this. We spun and weaved and talked and in general had a pretty good time but it got hot yesterday and we were on the afternoon side of [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Sep 1st, 2008
Which is, as I said, about the same size as the unfelted 7″ tri bag. Well, it made really nice thick felt with no sign of the weave structure. I was not getting any ideas for embellishments until I spotted the button box so here’s one side of it. I ‘buttoned’ both sides. Added the [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Sep 1st, 2008
I’ve had this fabric for years and finally found something it goes with! Has most of the button colors, or near enough. I braided the strap around a small clothesline rope both to make it a little larger and a bit sturdier. I hope!