Tub!HeatherViaPhone

SOAR!*First, before I get all snipey, as always, the people from Interweave and the Spinners themselves, are spectacular people I’ve been able to spend a van ride and a breakfast with Jan and Meg from the UK (Basingstoke–home of the Magic Roundabout) and they once again confirmed my love of all fiber folk. We’re just great. Okay, enough of the happy happy. We got here after a VERY HOT AND HUMID VAN RIDE–for which I...

Second warp. three days of warp.HeatherViaPhone

I’m typing today while our babysitter sits outside, watching the boys swim. They are goofy and they have both inherited a love for (and a talent with) music. They are also genetically programmed to be completely ridiculous. They are making up songs at the tops of their lungs, but unlike other kids I’ve heard who just do this to make noise, they are working out choruses and refrains. They are actually and truly making music. They...

Where have I been?Warping. I’ll have pics here later, but for now, know this: I’m an idiot. No really. I found out from Syne Mitchell of Weavecast that I took on a ridiculously difficult first project. This surprised me not at all. I had some linen on cones just sitting around so I thought I should use it. I warped with thatThen I wove four placemats–plain tabby, then twill (1/3 and 2/2) and had a ball. I had no one to tell me...