To the campus of Western Washington University
Signs are everywhere-
And i think there might be some crocheters among them, too-
For real.
ANWG conference at WWU this week.
I wasn’t able to sign up for any workshops (found out too late)
But there is a vendor marketplace in the gym that will be open to the public at noon on Thursday!
Cool, eh?
This weekend we moved the Peeps (guinea hens) into the pasture with the chickens and sheep.
They had been socializing through the fence with the new little chickens, so the transition was pretty smooth.
Here they are poking around the edges of the pasture together-
across the way, other interspecies mingling in progress-
And I just love how Frank is peeking around the corner here.
Other scenes from a peaceful weekend on the homestead-
Bees buzzing
Peonies popping
sheep scritching
puppies posing
people planting
And now that the seedlings are all outside, Mr. Carder has taken back his rightful place on the office desk, and I’m catching up on fiber prep!
of the loom, that is 🙂
Just pulled it off tonight.
I originally thought that I might try different patterns in this piece, but I just really liked how the plain weave looked in the different natural colors.
Nothing fancy. But it’s beautiful to me.
Here it is again on the gate.
It’s really quite long. About 9 feet.
So now I get to figure out what to do with it! Probably would have been more versatile fabric if I’d made it a little wider. But no worries! I’m sure the right use will present itself.
Anyhoo— this means I’ve got to get it warped again!
And I’ve been working on some handspun Edgar warp for the next go-round. Got about 200 navajo-plied yards so far.
Probably need another 200 before I get started.
Here it is posing with a possible weft candidate (Frank/Felix)
I haven’t decided on my next sweater project yet, but the needles have not gone cold! I’ve got some Frankensocks cast on with sporty sock yarn leftovers
Here is Chone inspecting-
and I have some Crazy Zauberball on standby in case I need more time-
I’m such a sucker for the Zauberball.
Lovin’ the loom.
It’s so cute.
And so cool.
I’ve given it a rubdown with lemon oil,
and I’ve already used up the warp it came with playing around this week.
So that meant that if I wanted to keep on weaving, I was going to have to learn how to warp it!
Luckily, there are a ton of resources available online.
I joined a couple of weaving groups on Ravelry, and in one forum found a link to a really great video that really helped me to understand the process.
So this weekend I did it. Warped the loom for the first time!
First I had to scour the stash for some yarn that was up to the task.
Then I took to the warping board.
Following the procedure as described in the video, the steps were:
winding the warp,
tying off the warp
inserting lease sticks to hold the cross in the warp,and then
rough sleying the reed,
beaming the warp,
threading the warp through the heddles,
sleying the reed, and
tying off the warp to the front apron rod.
Didn’t get pictures of all the steps, but it seems to have turned out ok- and I am back in business, weaving with my handspun!
Woo Hoo!