Archive | April 2026

Makeing progress… I think.

Apr25

I got the edging finished & laid them out. It made a rather tiny rectangle so I decided to space them a bit more. I’ll go out to Le Shed and go through the bin of Rosy’s small skeins. I’m sure she spun somthing that will go with this. The problem will be to find a compatable wool, size, and yes, color. Sis didn’t often spin  for a project. She spun because she enjoyed spinning. In fact, she enjoyed making yarn, often starting from skirting, washing, carding, & dying, and of course the spinning, but she like to experiment so finding yarns that go together can sometimes be a challenge. It turned out that for this layout I was one square short but I manasged to find enough useable bits to weave another square.

So  this is where the ‘free time’ project is today.

Trial layout.

Using up the bits for one last square.

Weave a restful day!

A different way of looking at it.

Apr24

I don’t nap in the bed. That is until today, and when I go to bed at night, I feel my way there, my night vision being negligible and all the lights out since He’s usually abed and asleep by the time I get there these days.  But the point of this ramble is that, yes,  I know there are spider webs on this window but as I cannot reach it, I don’t worry about it. And the dirtier it gets, the less the full moon will be keeping me awake each month. At least that is my attitude. But laying there this afternoon, I saw things from a different point of view. I laid there because I thought it might help straighten my back which gets pretty hunched by this time of day. Looking up I saw a really impressive net of webs in front of the glass. I’m glad I can’t see the ledge under this window because I have feeling that it’s probably littered with bug corpes!  These ladies are pretty good at keeping the webs clean of this sort of thing, tho they do get dusty and instead of running their little vaccums they just weave new clean nets. Ah well. I tend to go for the easy cleaning also. I spotted 4 of them sitting patiently waiting. I think they are going to get hungry before more meals fly in since it is not getting very warm and we have another week of clouds and possible showers so nothing open for fliers in. For perspective, this is a shot of the head of the bed and the window he fell in love with. I tired to get it in the LR but there wasn’t room with it’s lower cieling. It’s way too much light for a bedroom but he can sleep with any amount of light and I have a black sleep mask.

bed room window

view frommy pillow

One of the interiour decorators.

In other news, there are just 2 more squares to edge on the last posted project.

Is it spring… or not!

Apr23
I “reorganized” my yarn shed recently and found a ball of my hand spun wool in a box that the silverfish had gotten into. One of the few really fine yarns i’d managed to make. Most of my handspun tends to be bulky ‘art’ yarn so I was bummed to find this in bits. The bits were reasonably long so i wove on the 4″ Multi loom, joining as I went. Now I’m working around each square with some of Sis’s handspun. I’ve never done a slip stitch edge, but trying new stuff here. I’ll likely use a different yarn to assemble these. Don’t know now many i have but probably a smallish project. Katt may get a new chair pad. I’m going to toss it in the washer once assambled. There may be damage i didn’t find so figure a bit of felting could be a good thing. Maybe a time waster project, but it relaxes me not to have a Goal! It’s free time!
Meanwhile we are making looms, getting trips to fiber fairs set up. Things like reservations for the trailer, fees and classes, you know.  And hoping we can afford diesel for those trips!  And, of course, the garden.
We started “spring” with a warm spell which got me all excited to be sure I was not late late last year, so I planted peas and cabbage but also started tomatoes and peppers. Then it got cold and rainy, a couple times even snow. Them it would warm up for a few day befpre going back to rain and or frost- and a lot of wind this year. So needless to say, those tomato and pepper plants are reaching indoor limits! They are practically trees! We are going to have to plant them out today. He has covered cages for them but they are not  likely to be happy. I’ve started a few more in hopes that they won’t out grow the pots before summer happens! When it comes to weather these days  “You can’t win for losing” sure applies!
Hope you get time to both garden and weave. Both enjoyable…when they aren’t being stressful!  lol

April 1!

Apr1

Well, I made it through another year. I think I’ll bake myself a cake today! Pineapple upside down is my favorite. My late girlfriend used to make a really yummy Chocolate Cherry cake for me but I never got the recipe from her. Too bad. Ah well… today is a lovely rainy day, just misting at the moment but we needed this rain. We need the predicted snow also but not in my yard in April. Up There it’s still needed, and that’s fine.  But meantume, I’m enjoying the cool and damp.

Anybody else have a holiday birthday? DH has Earth Day, girlfriend’s is on halloween. A niece in law was born on Xmas eve. Two other people in this little mountain community share my day.

How will I celebate? After 85 of them, it’s really just being happy to be here and be reasonably healthy. I can still move, still think, usually remember! Doing fairly well, I think. Hope you all are, too.