I was reminded that I haven’t been keeping this blog up to date. Well, here’s some of the reason for that! 🙂 Been working hard to get all caught up with orders and also have a nice bunch of looms to show you at Black Sheep Gathering in Eugene, OR. later this month. It’s always a great fiber event and I sure hope you’ll come by and see us if you are lucky enough be there.
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What you see here is the final sanding. Now Randy gets to drill the nail holes and I’ll do the oiling and rubbing down and add the nails. The group in the front are purpleheart, a really striking wood. The little bits will become packing forks.
So I hope you’ll forgive me for not keeping up here but as you can see, I really AM busy! 😉

Here’s the loom maker working at his day job. Only this time it’s for me! We’re finally getting the sheet-rock up after a bit more that a year since we started this project! I’m excited! I think this is going to be the guest room part of the “Hazel Rose Studio and Bed and Breakfast”! lol I’ll need more shelves in the main room now that I’ve bought all of Pat’s yarn stash, too! Was planning this room as my yarn storage, but I’ve already out-grown it! lol Oh well, I guess rooms are like purses… no matter what the size, you fill it up! 😛

Here’s my latest socks…handspun mohair, fat and fuzzy and silky. Wonderful. I might make another pair! I also have some white that I never dyed that would be good for socks. I need something on the needles to relax me from looms! lol We are getting ready for Black Sheep Gathering and I’m also trying to get some new weaving projects done but after a few hours my head needs a change and socks are a good project that you don’t have to think about while you knit! lol (Hummm I guess you don’t have to think about grammar, either! :laugh: )

I just wanted to brag on my Happy Cactus! It bloomed like this last year, too, so I haven’t moved it. I think this means it likes it there in the window of my studio! I *am* doing fiber stuff. The new project is making headway and I was just ready to cast on the second sock when I discovered I’d left my needles at Sis’s. So she’s mailing them with the rest of the stuff I left. Things have been going like that lately! :hehe:

Hope we are getting ready for Black Sheep Gathering, it’s only about 3 weeks now. I have to dig out the display and paint the back. People have suggested that it does little to enhance thir displays when they are behind us! lol It wasn’t intentional… I just never thought of the back side. In fact, I don’t know that I even saw it until Himself had it set up at the fair. And, while it isn’t hideous, I can’t say I blame them for wanting it improved a bit.

Maybe I should print out a huge poster of my cactus! :laugh:

Looks like it’s working again.
So… back to weaving!

Okay. I got myself intrigued by the idea. And I just happened to buy out a neighbors stash of commercial wool yarn and the two got together and came up with this lazy weaver’s version! lol I used the Quilt Weaver set, tho i had to add Tiny Weaver squares in the end also. It felted up pretty small with this wool. The finished “bowl” is 4″ high and 8″ rim to rim across the top. But I am pleased with it all in all! It was suggested that it looked like a hat and it does but I think the 14″ set would have to be used for that. At least with this yarn. I did go dig out a new set of colors, determined to try the tiny Weaver version along with several other weavers who’ve expressed interest in trying this! It may take me forever to get this one done. It’ll need to go to the bottom of the list of on-going projects! :laugh:

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Okay. I got myself intrigued by the idea. And I just happened to buy out a neighbors stash of commercial wool yarn and the two got together and came up with this lazy weaver’s version! lol I used the Quilt Weaver set, tho i had to add Tiny Weaver squares in the end also. It felted up pretty small with this wool. The finished “bowl” is 4″ high and 8″ rim to rim across the top. But I am pleased with it all in all! It was suggested that it looked like a hat and it does but I think the 14″ set would have to be used for that. At least with this yarn. I did go dig out a new set of colors, determined to try the tiny Weaver version along with several other weavers who’ve expressed interest in trying this! It may take me forever to get this one done. It’ll need to go to the bottom of the list of on-going projects! :laugh:

I found a few more Troll dolls in the course of my spring cleaning. This little guy was in need of clothing so here he is in his knitted garment. If there’s a will there’s a way! But that was just breaktime. I really have been working today. 😛
It was sunny here and 75 degree warm! Beautiful! 😀

It looks like it might be a hat but it’s sewn to a piece of black velvet with some darts in it. It has been taken apart so it could be anything. The long tube beads are fragile and some have broken. These pieces have both hand and machine stitching. The elderly lady could not seem to remember anything about it except that she once wore it. She didn’t know what became of the rest of it, either.
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A Post Script: I think we have pretty much eliminated Japan as the source of this beadwork but I am still hunting for another. Most people seem to think it’s American Indian but I have not located which group, if that is the case. I still have people looking, both here and in Asia. This piece seems to have intrigued several people! I, of course, am glad of their help. Our local museum has a part-time textile conservator but I think this may be outside her field of expertise. I will certainly show it to her the next time she’s here, tho.
Thank you all for your comments,
Hazel
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