Happy Birthday, Ms. Ila!!!!

Happy 85th Birthday, Ms. Ila!  (And, you brought your own cake, too!!!)  This yummy treat was an orange-lemon chiffon cake with coconut frosting.  I'm so glad we could share this day with you!











  We saved the cake for after lunch, so Ms. Ila got busy putting her new warp on her loom.  She was wound on and threading in no time flat!
  I'm looking forward to seeing what new creation she'll be weaving!








  Carol and Shirley worked out a glitch on the scarf warp.  It's so nice having folks to trouble shoot with you!











  Liz was busy sleying the reed on her towel warp.  She has been busy at home weaving scarves for her husband to take to an event this weekend.  All the hems will be hand-stitched.
  Jocelyn is at the end of this warp, and it will get cut off after she gets the hemstitching finished.
  Betsy finished two more bands for our keyrings at home.  Today she was busy at her loom weaving more placemats.






  Margi got her reed sleyed today.  She ended up with some extra threads that she'll be weighing off the back of the loom.











  Bonnie got her warp wound on the back of the loom (thank you, Patty!)  Now, she's ready to tie it on to the front bar.
  Marilyn has really gotten into weaving the placemats on "B".

    **Maggie***  Marilyn learned why "B" got his name today.  I'm sure you will appreciate this!!!!

("B" has a bad habit of popping too much warp when you touch the brake!)













  Connie worked on her Inkle band today while Marie worked on some bookkeeping.
 
  When Dickie saw the table looms on the porch sale, he phoned a friend of his to see if they wanted one.  Sure enough!  He took care of that for them.

 Pearl arrived with loom in tow, and she got to work on her sunny yellow warp. 














  Ray made some adjustments on his warp...it's coming right along.
  Mary is plugging away on the white placemat warp.  They'll be some more placemats soon for the shop upstairs.

  Pat is using that bright blue with her black warp...it really makes the pattern POP!  Those will make a nice soup cozy.

















  As often happens, we had visitors in the studio today.  Say hello to Amy and Lynn.  They just live right up the interstate in LaFollette, but had never been to the shop before!  They raise fiber goats...maybe they would like to learn to weave????
 
Happy Weaving!
LouAnn