…my life in the country
Posted in Looms, Uncategorized, Weaving on Mar 27th, 2010
Here is Randy hard at work making your looms. We both spent the day in the shop. And the sun was shining outside! Oh well, there’ll be more sunshine. Now I have dinner in the oven and maybe I can use the looms a bit this evening! lol But we are taking a day off [...]
Posted in gardening, Uncategorized, Weather on Mar 24th, 2010
The Jays are back rebuilding the nest we had to remove temporarily when we changed the windows last summer. I wasn’t sure if they’d like the changes but they don’t seem to mind. Could not catch them in the act, they are working too hard and too quickly for my camera.
This is the sock yarn project that was a finalist but did not win. It is one of the dresses I wove for the Hand-Woven magazine sock yarn contest. It is Tofutsies sock yarn and the trim is crocheted with Wildfoote. I knitted a ribbing on the sleeves. This dress was woven on the 2”, 4”, [...]
Here’s Randy sifting dirt and compost though a screen into the newly moved garden box. The other was moved last fall but I had more plants to find new homes for in this one. You can just see some red sprouts there by the foundation behind the iris. That’s the peonies I moved out of [...]
Posted in gardening, Looms, Weather, Weaving on Mar 15th, 2010
As you see, the snow is gone again. We’ll probably have more showers but for now its lovely, blue sky, and warm. Got up to 71 today. It’s back into the 30′s tonight, tho, so not quite spring yet. Here’s Randy out fixing the sprinkler he broke last fall by dropping a dead alder right [...]
Posted in Looms, Traveling, Weather, Weaving on Mar 10th, 2010
This little fellow is actually in Sis’ s yard but ours look pretty much the same this morning. We got between an inch and two of very light and fluffy snow. This morning the sun is out in a blue sky and the little breeze sets this stuff flying and falling all over again. Randy [...]
I just wanted to say that I am still here but have been so busy in the loom shop that I have hardly had time for anything else! I did get invited to send in my project to the Handwoven sock yarn contest. I’m rather proud of that. Don’t know if anything will come of [...]