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And before you ask… No, it isn’t a family reunion! 😀 Fiber people know it’s one of the biggest get togethers on the west coast for us do-it-yourself type’s. But anyone who loves quality and luxury yarns will also find much to delight them. spinners, weavers knitters, crocheters, tatters and lacemakers. Not to mention sheep, goat, alpaca, & rabbit raisers are there in abundance, too, selling fleeces, and animals and yarn made from all these.There are animal and fiber events, displays of fantastic arts, a spinners circle, works shops on just about any fiber related subject you could imagine… really, I can’t begin to list all that’s going in there so I’ll just furnish you with the link to the web page and you can go check it out. http://www.blacksheepgathering.org/ I hope many are you are close enough to get to come. It’s worth the trip and Eugene is an interesting town as well.
But it’s me in the photo, rubbing down the last of the looms we need to take along. I’m *almost* ready to go…! 😛
Now … what was it that I didn’t write on the list….? 💡

intheshop.bmp (438k file)

And before you ask… No, it isn’t a family reunion! 😀 Fiber people know it’s one of the biggest get togethers on the west coast for us do-it-yourself type’s. But anyone who loves quality and luxury yarns will also find much to delight them. spinners, weavers knitters, crocheters, tatters and lacemakers. Not to mention sheep, goat, alpaca, & rabbit raisers are there in abundance, too, selling fleeces, and animals and yarn made from all these.There are animal and fiber events, displays of fantastic arts, a spinners circle, works shops on just about any fiber related subject you could imagine… really, I can’t begin to list all that’s going in there so I’ll just furnish you with the link to the web page and you can go check it out. http://www.blacksheepgathering.org/ I hope many are you are close enough to get to come. It’s worth the trip and Eugene is an interesting town as well.
But it’s me in the photo, rubbing down the last of the looms we need to take along. I’m *almost* ready to go…! 😛
Now … what was it that I didn’t write on the list….? 💡

For all my complaining about the rain this spring, I think I have the prettiest yard I’ve had since the flood took out most of the front garden. This is it, grown up in tall lacy grasses and wild flowers as well as the heartier of what I had planted there. It just seemed so pretty that I had to post this photo a bit larger than I usually use. I had a hard time deciding which piciture to post, too. The dogs and one cat came along and I snapped them in the meadow, as well!
I live in such a pretty place! 😀

This is the rug I’m weaving out of Pendleton selvages. It is 14″ squares and needs at least two more. it’s difficult to weave because it tends to catch on the nails but it makes a really nice rug fabric. Thick and kind of chenille-y. I’m using every other nail.

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.
http://www.blacksheepgathering.org/
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: