It will be nice. I realize that  I am an old person these days but I seem to have been chilly all the last month, no matter what the thermometer says. So I am thinking I probably won’t have too much trouble with summer heat. That would be a tiny bonus for being 0ld! But my yard says it’s spring no matter what the temperature!

Meantime, we are getting ready to leave for Washington in a week. It’s Fiber Fusion NW Up in Monroe.  That will be a nice trip, it’s a lovely part of the USA, which has a lot of lovely parts! We’ll be weaving on Peg Looms with weavers there.  The next event on our calendar is Black Sheep Gathering in Albany, OR. Then we have a bit of time, which I will likely spend with the garden and my canner! We finish off the traveling year with Lambtown in Dixon, CA and OFFF back in Albany again.

Just one of those stray thoughts that pop into my head as I am weaving. Just read that Buster Posy, our beloved Giants Catcher of yore, is now part owner of the Giants Team and at least partly in charge of running it. It just seemed to me that if that works for Buster and the Giants, then Harry Potter ought to be one of the professors at Hogwarts, maybe even Head Master!

Another stray thought (It’s how my brain works these days! It’s full of strays!) I was looking at all the really neat bags I have that came with products or as gifts. I have used a lot of them for project bags but, lets face it, there’s a limit! And I have way more bags than I’ll ever have uses for. I’ve tried giving them way but it seems other people also have too many. Which got me to thinking about the stuff we order. Yeah it’s kinda fun to get a package with your order wrapped up in a pretty bag or some really nice wrapping of some kind, maybe the kind you feel compelled to keep, but what do do with that?! So I try not to add to that clutter here at Hazel Rose Looms. (And this morning I see that Gabi is offering a free bag! lol) We use a lot of used boxes and I don’t “gift wrap” your order. If I think your special wood stands a chance of being damaged in transit I’ll wrap it some tissue. If you mentions it’s for a gift I will sometimes fancy it up a bit, Depends on what I have at hand mostly. All our packing material is recycled. People in this community know I ship and they bring me their bubble wrap and air bags. It saves us a lot of money that we don’t have to add to the price of the looms and people are happy not to have to toss those things into the land fill. I hope you find a place to donate them once you get them. Shops that sell glass art might take them, at least our local one does. Check around.

I had a group young teens come into the booth recently and they were taken with the toddler Ragtag top I had displayed and wished there was a pattern for bigger people. Yesterday I got out some sock yarn  and the 4×6″ multi and wove a couple test pieces. I think it will work. I made an estimate chart, it’ll take quite a lot of pieces so may be a test of young patience and determination! 

And deciding on a size for a teen is pretty much impossible. What size is an adult woman?! Yeah, all of them. Well, the estimate I laid out gives me a 30″ chest. It’s been a long time since I had a teen girl to make things for and I no longer remember what size she was. But a weaver can work with it to come up with the size they need. The test right now is: Will I get it made?

And I found this this morning! Three pretty peonies and one degerative and dying one. Spring is so pretty! And there’s apples on my Hyde King! It’s had a hard life but has made a nice come back after the alder fell on it. That’s exciting!

So I hope things are blossoming where you are!

Have a nice Memorial Weekend!

Hazel