Classes begin tomorrow! This year, I am not ready. So we won't talk about that. Instead, I spent the weekend pulling apart the big loom, cleaning and lubricating all the parts that rub up against each other, especially those that were causing one of the shafts to stick. It's very annoying to have that happen one yard into a four yard warp. (I would ( Read more... )

So my backyard backs up against the backyard of a family with several children. Before I moved in several years ago, they had built a kid's play fort on stilts that looks pretty cool. It has a ladder going up one side and a rope to climb on the other. Well, this morning was actually cool enough to do serious yard work. (The first time weeks!) ( Read more... )

No, I haven't fallen off the face of the Earth (which would be a mighty interesting feat from a physics standpoint). Let's just say that life got interesting last fall and then proceeded to get even more interesting as the spring semester progressed. I'm not sure all of the interesting bits have completely been put in their graves, but at least ( Read more... )

So apparently I'm not completely recovered from my last semester since I apparently deleted the post I just finished writing in which I commented that I thought I was recovered from that crazy semester. Despite the craziness that was the end of the semester, I did weave three small rugs from hand dyed yarn and a scarf from hand spun yarn.  All of ( Read more... )

I simply ran out of time last week...

About two months ago, just as classes were about to get underway, I bought some fiber from Butterflygirldesigns.  It was her vegan Seashells colorway. I figured if I had something really awesome to spin, I would find the time/energy to sit down for 15-20 minutes in the morning to just relax and play before ( Read more... )

G. and I decided we were tired of our freezers being filled with marigold flowers, we dyed more fiber last weekend. And since the goldenrod in G.'s yard was blooming, we decided to try some of that as well.

First the goldenrod since that is new...We only had enough to fill my smallest dye pot about 2/3 full, so we dyed only two small skeins of yarn ( Read more... )

I've been doing a lot of spinning and weaving recently, but have been a bit remiss about posting. Mostly because work is eating my brain, but also because it has been so dark/cloudy that I haven't been able to get any good photos. However, yesterday the sun came out just long enough for me to take photos of the fiber G. and I dyed last weekend.

G. ( Read more... )

So much for regular fiber updates (other than the recent dying pictures)! I have, however, been doing fiber related stuff, but some of it just takes a long time to get anywhere and what's the point of show pictures where progress is, well, not obvious?

At last year's (2010) Maryland sheep and wool, I bought a batt of blue wool with silver flash ( Read more... )

Cassie and I had an enjoyable, and unexpected, weekend with my parents. Irene was just a bit of wind where they live. Cassie appeared to enjoy the adventure (well, excepting the 6.5 hour car ride). Lot's of pine cones, twigs and small limbs down in my yard (2 bags full and 2 bundles of limbs). Some of my plants had been flattened by the wind/flood ( Read more... )

I'll admit to being a wimp. Since all campus activities were canceled from Friday to Monday (and now Tuesday), I decided that rather than sit in the dark and listen to the wind howl for 12 hours while wondering if the roof was tearing itself apart and if the crawl space was flooding that I might as well enjoy a weekend with my parents. There's ( Read more... )