A Blustry Day

    Our thoughts go out to the folks that have endured Sandy...what a system!
  There is snow to the north and east of us, but we are just having gray skies and wind gust.  The temperature difference is easy to see in our wardrobes this week....we do have a chill in the air.

  Allan and Pat seem to be doing supervisor duty today!  Actually, we were busy getting weft ready for Allan's warp, and trying to figure out how the new winder for the Macomber works!!!!

   Tina finished up the bookkeeping from the Museum of Appalachia, while folks started tagging their items for Foothills.  Ms. Ila and LaDonna brought in some of their scarves and shawls for us to ooh & ahh over!  Lovely!
  Ms. Linda got to the Center early to wind her second warp.  You can just barely see it on the board by the back door.

  Judy took over the job of cleaning up the smaller Macomber loom....thank you, Judy!   We use a lot of Howard's Feed & Wax on our looms!

  I didn't get a picture of Maggie cleaning the big Macomber....thank you, Maggie!!!!

  LaDonna was working hard on her scarf warp on her rigid heddle loom.

  And, in the middle of all of this, Lanny started dressing his loom for towels!  

   And, Carl stayed busy weaving a blue jean rug.  We're a little low on those upstairs in the shop!  People love rag rugs using denim
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  Andy was really close to the end of her shawl.  She was busy weaving back in the last few inches from the other end.

  Then, it was time to cut the warp from the loom!

When she finished cleaning the new loom, Maggie got to work on her napkins.  I think I heard her say that she can see the end of the warp on the back beam!  Wow!

  Ms. Ila is holding her warp of three scarves that will get washed and ready for the Foothills show.

  We'll be doing a mock up of our booth next week...which means that this week, we'll all be busy at home!

Stay safe & warm!
Happy Weaving,
LouAnn