…to me!

I spent the day at student, Angie Lewis’, house helping her to warp her new loom, weave off her scarf, and rewarp her loom for her next project. I arrived at 7 in the morning and we worked all day long ending up with a fulled and damp scarf that she should have gotten at my workshop earlier this month.

The lesson to me is this: Don’t make assumptions about yarn – read the label to make sure it is what you think it is.  The original wool from which she wove her scarf ended up being superwash, and, therefore, didn’t do what it was supposed to do when placed in the washing machine.

This time it fulled beautifully and she was ecstatic with it.  She was happy dancing all over her living room with it and here she is posing with it and her rewarped loom.  Angie’s design sense is very fun and I am looking forward to seeing more of her designs.

Her new loom, by the way is a LeClerc Nilus – 22″ with the stand and treadles.  She got this for an amazing deal off of eBay and it is a sweet loom.

While she wove, I spun.

This is a nice wool in a colorway called Emerald and I am over half-way through the 8 ounce ball.  I’m not sure if I’m going to Navajo ply this or spin an equal amount of a navy blue wool I have somewhere in my stash and ply the two of them together.  I like the idea of the navy blue because I have Blackwatch Plaid in mind as I spin this.

We will be going to my MIL’s on Thanksgiving to spend the day with them, Scott’s sister, and Scott’s brother and family up from Kentucky.  I’m going to take the spinning wheel and see how close I can get to having this fiber spun.

And then, starting Friday morning, I am painting!  I had intended to paint two weekends ago, but it didn’t happen, so I will be painting Scott’s den this weekend, as well as tackling the reorganization I want to do to the laundry room.  I may even get the laundry room painted, too.  We’ll see.  I have enough paint, but will I have enough energy?

I wish everyone, in the US, a wonderful Thanksgiving holiday, and all the rest of you, have a lovely rest of the week.