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Thursday, February 26, 2015

Weaving my way out of February.

Is it March yet???
Well, there's a LOT of snow out there, but when the SUN shines, it is easier, somehow.





I have a LOT of warp on the AVL, which is a good thing.     It means that when the sun is shining, I have something to weave on while I soak it UP.


I apologize for posting and reposting pictures of my "new to me weaving space", that used to be totally wasted on retail.
But I can't help it.   I love it.
It is the coolest place to work.


To think I used to work in a PRISON.  Yikes.
Dark, smelly, depressing.
OK, let's not go there.

I've been trying to decide how to put some plants on the new window between the rooms, without 
the four cats in residence, knocking them off.
I am stumped.
Hanging plants, maybe?


I found some cotton flake I liked, so I decided to give it a try on towels.

 I wasn't sure about it though, at least not confident enough to keep weaving a bunch of towels, but Lois had a small warp on her Wolf Pup at home, so I gave her some of it to weave a sample for me.


Which she did, she made TWO and she washed them  too!!!!

 I think she is starting something......dollhouse rugs???

Then I found some variegated cotton flake,  and kept on weaving.



 I suppose I should be sick of this pattern by now, but I'm not.
I'm still having fun, and that's what it's all about.
Gonna weave my way right through March.



Yeah.

4 comments:

Kathy said...

Hmmm...You just opened up that space....I understand your want/need for green in there, but maybe leave it open until you experience a season or two in there. Or, maybe you could put brackets on the side and then hang from them, rather than hanging from across the top... Right now, I am all for open spaces!

Devon said...

Maybe bolt down a decorative metal trough and place plants inside... could work.

I love the working space in the sun... the older I get, the more I want to surround myself with sun and plants!!!

Peg Cherre said...

I do not get tired of your studio pix, only a little bit jealous.

The towels are lovely, but in the last shot what's the lump on the right side as it goes over the front beam? Hopefully you saw it & fixed it before it went any further.

Daryl said...

love the new space ... as for hanging plants .. just make sure that the plant itself doesn't hang/dangle or the cats will attempt to grab them ... i once had on a shelf a lovely spider plant .. i would turn it every few days so all the sides got a little direct sun .. one day as i turned it i noticed that the ends/tips of the leaves facing the room were all evenly bitten off .. darn cat ... so no more spider plants ...

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