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More, more, more

More of the same – more packing and more weaving. I’m very happy with my progress on both fronts. The dining room turned jewelry-making studio turned office and cotton storage has 2 more boxes to go. One I can’t pack till I’m done with the baby wraps and can pack up all that cotton; the […]

Wrapping it up

Today I mailed the wraps to ZN & NZ.

From left to right, it’s navy tencel flowers, black cotton hearts, and black tencel hearts.

Since getting them off the loom, in addition to doing all the finish work, I’ve done the usual things like mowing the lawn, washing the dishes, yadda yadda yadda. Plus […]

I won’t miss this

My bad knee isn’t very happy right now. It got quite unhappy with all that digging on Monday. Tuesday was much better, and Wednesday was pretty good.

Then yesterday I mowed the half of my lawn that was relatively dry. Today I mowed the rest of it and wacked the weeds. This job takes 3.5-4 […]

Breathe

So much has happened in my life in the past 21 days, sometimes I have to remind myself to slow down and take some deep breaths. Stopping to look at a cool moth settled on my screen door is one of the things that helps me do that. Here are the highlights (and lowlights) of […]

Good enough for gifts

I thought I’d show you what I’m working on today, but realized I never showed you the towels I made. They’re all a Swedish lace pattern. Warp and weft are white cottolin, chambray and cobalt cotton. I needed to make 1 or 2 for a hostess gift. On the cone, the cobalt looked a […]