…my life in the country
Posted in Uncategorized on Nov 27th, 2009
Had a lovely Thanksgiving with Sis and husband. We left early because of threatened snow. Hubby says his truck does not do well in snow. But it was not a problem. There was a frosting of snow, making the trees very pretty and the old berms clean and tidy, but the road, tho wet. was [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Nov 18th, 2009
The top of Morrison Gulch is about 4500′ so this white stuff is probably less than 2000′ above us. We had some sprinkles of it in the rain yesterday. It’s clear and sunny, as you see, today but the next storm, predicted for Friday, is being called a “Winter Storm”. I’m guessing that means lower [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Nov 15th, 2009
I am getting better with this loom. Starting to figure some things out. My selvages are still nothing to brag about but they do, I think, show some improvement. And I am trying to be patient with unweaving and fixing mistakes that I find as I go along. I’m sure more will show up once [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Nov 15th, 2009
Along with this kind of weaving comes things called Thrums. It’s the left-over or “waste” yarn from weaving on big looms. Lots of people come up with neat things to use these short bits for but the small hand looms offer many possibilities which I have been exploring. The furry looking one was woven on [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Nov 5th, 2009
Since I bought this nice used Baby Wolf loom I thought I ought to learn to use it so when Randy said he had a class for his water master certification Eureka, an artistic town, I started looking for weaving classes and found Linda Hartshorn at the Ink People for the Arts studio. Our trip [...]