Some of the Benefits of being a Weaver!

One of the benefits of being a weaver is as plain as the nose on your face!   I work away up in the studio, creating with "string" as my DH likes to call it.  Working, working, working, and enjoying every moment that I get to spend up there.  Right now I am making Baby Blankets, which is really coming in handy since we have had 3 babies born in my circle of friends this last month.  So that means that 3 of these Blankets are already going to be gifted.  Now, I probably could have gone out and bought something quicker than I wove one of these off, (though I am not totally sure of that), but I surely would not have found anything as special, nor at such a low cost at a store!  These blankets are really soft, even straight off the loom, but after that first wash, oh my goodness gracious, I wish you could feel it!  It is something to experience.  You should hear the ooh's and aah's that I hear when sombody sees it.  It really is touching to hear a compliment, especially when they don't know that I made it!

I love the colors against the natural tabby, in fact I have ordered 40 more cones of 8/4 cotton warp in natural, I already have the colors I need for the pattern weft.  I can see that the pattern really needs more contrast than the yellow has to show up well.  I could tell it pretty much from the first pattern shot, but I decided to go ahead and see how it looks once it is washed.  I will be hemming these beauties this afternoon!

Another benefit to being a weaver is that I get to join together with my weaving buddies a couple of times a year, outside of our normal Tuesday gatherings.

I have started gathering the things I want to take along.  I will take it all over this evening because my daughter and I are participating in the Susan G. Komen race for the cure, Saturday morning, in Knoxville.  All I want to take with me on Saturday is a change of clothes!

 As you know, when we weavers get together, there is food!  My contribution will be a huge crockpot full of "Go anywhere Baked Beans"  I got the recipe from my DIL's mother, an excellent cook!

 We will have our cameras with us this weekend and I am sure we will be keeping you all up to speed on our doings.  I wish you could all come along, but then I don't think Lou Ann has quite that many beds!

Until next time, Happy Weaving, Tina
Logged 17.5 miles jogging, 16 miles walking