Update again

I guess I'm just an every-couple-months poster right now and that's just the way it is. First a bit of catch-up. I did warp more chenille and made two scarves. I used up every single inch of one of my weft colors, and nearly all of the other. Even steven, all the way around. My brother LOVES his chenille stole and I have a couple scarves to sell, if I can bear to part with them - soft, luscious, wonderful pieces.

I warped 10 inches of 10/2 cotton to sample for another blanket. That's off, washed, and shrinkage calibrated and I have wound 807 ends of 10/2 cotton in natural for my next blanket. It will be in Queen Anne's Lace, a sweet, small overshot pattern from Bertha Gray Hayes' book. I haven't decided what color cotton I will cross it with yet.

I haven't been idle the last few months, though. My son and his family were here for a couple weeks, then I went there for a week. I loved every minute of their visit here and my visit there. Grandchildren are SO special.

I was preparing to venture into my first weaving teaching gig, and had a friend's LeClerc Dorothy table loom at the house while my daughter-in-law was here. She's always had an interest in weaving, with not much opportunity due to two small boys, but here was Nai-Nai to help out with children and a loom calling to her. So, she made a rag piece 14" wide and last I saw, had sewn it into a nice tote bag. She did it all from winding the warp to sewing the bag.

I taught weaving at Shannondale Craft Camp http://shannondalecraftcamp.com/ last weekend and had a lovely time. My students were all at different levels with different projects/goals, and it was fun helping them toward those goals. I hope they had as much fun as I did!

I have been mulching hostas the last couple days, which always puts me in an artsy mood. I'm not a "green" person as far as personal color, but when I work with my hostas in the spring, I start thinking about greens for future projects. Fun, fun!

This blanket will probably take me a month or so, what with gardening, yard work, and two weeks in Berlin coming up, but I'm learning to be okay with this new, no-show-to-weave-like-a-madwoman-for pace. Sometime this summer I want to dye a Tencel warp for scarves or shawls, and colorways are running around my mind a lot for that. Always something to think about when you're a weaver!