A Gray Rainy Day in the Studio

We are so glad to have a rainy day! It is a great excuse to be inside doing all the things we like to do of course, but it will also help extinguish some troubling wildfires that have been popping up all over the Southeast this last week! I was late getting to the center today, and when I walked in there were tiny conferences going on all over the place! Patty was talking to Phyllis, Jenny was bringing in tubs from Carols car and they were talking about what we were going to do with all this fabric and stuff, Shannon was talking with Betsy about something, but in all that confusion Diana was working patiently on her table loom.

Carol was then helping Bella with the first steps of putting a warp on the loom, while a new student looks on.

Dana is choosing colors to weave on a Navy warp. (Next week we will get that loom warped using the sectional warping method.)

Patty is working with boucle and eyelash yarn on this shawl warp!

Here is another shot of Shannon and Jenny going through tubs of stuff!

Time for Show and tell! Shannon swears that this is not the same towels she showed and told the last 2 weeks! You know how you learn something new everytime you weave on a new loom? Shannon learned that she just couldn't beat the yarn in well enough on this warp using a rigid heddle.

Jenny brought in the warp that she finished weaving last week and some handspun yarn.

I also had show and tell, this week I finished spinning a fleece! I ended up with 2 lbs of bouncy squishy light worsted yarn from a Finn sheep. I had bought the fleece at Maryland Sheep and Wool in 2018! I bought it because it was so cheap! It was so cheap because it was the filthiest fleece in the whole room! Doesn't scare me!!!! It has been a quest of mine this year to spin thicker softer bouncier yarn, partially because the yarn feels so good but mostly to use up more of the fleeces that I have in my studio more quickly! This is only 2 of the skeins...

that is all for today, Happy Thanksgiving everyone! Tina for all!