Another Tuesday, Another Show Coming up

It was another busy day in the Studio this week! Karin and I were putting the finishing touches on her new loom, and Mark and Judith were working on their respective projects, and Pat wasn't with us this week, so I took a picture of her latest rug on the Barn Frame Loom.

Liz came to the end of her towel warp and Susan #3 is winding more weft for her "Ellen's Pattern" placemats.

Carol (our fearless leader!) is modeling one of the many ways she has found to work with the textured and many colored fabric we have been weaving in the studio recently. Carol and Patty have been winding warps holding 6 threads of yarn all of different weights and textures. Then we have the yarns that Carol used to wind the warp for Joycelyn and the warp on the loom ready to thread.

Next I have Shirley and her warp and after that Patty is at the loom with a warp that she has planned and wound. In each of the warps that have been on the looms over the last few months a weft has been chosen that almost dissapears and lets the colors of the warp do all the talking.

Pearl is taking the opposite path, she has a single color warp and is using all sorts of things in the weft. There really is no end to the possibilites of you can do at the loom is there?

Oh, what show you ask? In Oak Ridge, TN this weekend, there is a show that has be going on for years. We are getting a small space this year in order to see if this is something we could be able to do going forward. Liz #2 is making sure that the inventory has been accounted for and she and Marie and Linda are heading up the booth planning and set up. Several of us are manning the booth in turn, so we shall see how it goes.

Now for Show and Tell! Mark got a Countermarche loom and this is the first project that he has done. It is wool warp and wool weft. Barbara brought in a scarf that she had done at home combining 3 different short warps into one project!

I will get some pictures of the booth at the Pilot Show this weekend to share in next weeks post. That is all for today, until next week this is Tina, for all!

Putting Together a New Ashford Loom etc

Karin and I worked on getting her Ashford table loom together today. We had some help along the way but we didn't quite get it finished! We still have to put the beater assembly together, but by 3pm we were beat! We will finish up next week and post more photos! (Oh, and we basically took over the kitchen area!)

I was very much occupied with the above project and some really nice weavers took my phone and got a few pictures of Jenny taking her project off of the loom.

While all that was happening there was a Bowl Cozie sewing bonanza going on, of which I got absolutely no pictures! (Sorry gals!) Carol said that she and Laura sewed together 21 bowl cozies!!! These cozies will be going to the Pilot Craft Show in Oak Ridge, TN the weekend of the 22nd, which is why they were sewing like mad! There is another 6 yard Christmas Cozies warp on the wolf pup and yet another 6 yard warp that can go an another loom next week to have for the shop upstairs. Time to start thinking about Spring time cozies soon! Now, it is time for Show and Tell! Peggy came in today and showed us some wonderful 8 harness towels she had made and also several scarves and a shawl.

Shannon sewed a bag for her to wear on vacation with a Halloween theme. She also made the cutest Heart shaped pillow out of the fabric that she had woven and had been so disappointed that the colors ran in the wash a few months back! She had some fabric in her stash that was a perfect match to back the heart. That goes to show you that you never know what mistake will in reality just a change of direction!

Mark and Judith helped out at the Museum a couple of weeks ago and it was a really chilly day! Judith took a towel that was for display and wrapped it around her neck to keep the cold out. (She got so many compliments!) So Mark decided to use those same colors and make Judith an actual scarf!

That is it for this week! Until next time this is Tina, for all!

Ready Set Go!

We had a great show this past weekend! I was heading home after we took the booth down and realized what a bad blogger I was! I didn't get a single picture of the booth even though I thought about it as I was working on Sunday!!! I hoped that someone had taken some pictures and wouldn't you know it, Mark came to the rescue once again! Here are a couple of pictures of the booth right after set up and a picture of the bowl cozy warp that was on the demonstration loom.

Sunday, while several of us were working the booth, we got the idea to do a bowl cozy warp using Christmas colors. I volunteered to wind the warp, and weave it off in time for us to have a bowl cozy assembly line next Tuesday. That meant that the warp had to be finished today so that Pat could take it home, serge the ends and wash it and hang it to dry so that it would be ready to cut and sew in time. (We have another show in Oak Ridge in 2 weeks!) So to get a head start I wound the warp on Monday and since my Husband is out of town, I went up to the Center and got the warp on the loom, through the heddles and reed and wove 1 bobbins worth of fabric.

This morning we had to unload the cars with inventory from the show and unload and organize the equipment for the booth. Also, Marie and Karin worked on getting a revised inventory from the items that came back from the show. While that was all going on, I notice several warps in progress in the studio. There are at least 3 mixed warps for wraps we are enjoying, Shirly is threading one Patty is working on one and Joycelyn is on a third. Weaving should begin on them in the coming weeks.

Liz is almost finished with her towel warp and Ruth was working on the lawn chair towels.

By the time lunch rolled around I had a nice roll of fabric on the cloth beam.

After lunch of course it is time for Show and Tell! Charlotte had 2 scarves she had woven at home and Mark had a scarf with a bit of bling in it for his daughter.

After lunch it was back to work on Christmas Bowl Cozy warp for me! At 2:15 I threw the last pick and was done! Pat was waiting for me to finish weaving and off she went home to get the fabric ready for next Tuesday.

Whew! That is all I have for you today! Until next week this is Tina, for all.