5th Tuesday Means it's Potluck

Busy day in the studio today! Mark was first in line for pictures when I walked in this morning. It was time to cut off his warp because the cloth beam was getting too full! I also caught sight of a loom with an old warp and a new warp side by side, I thought that was interesting!

Pat is making steady progress on the old barn loom and Kris is making progress on her placemat project.

Laura has taken over the towels that look like "woven lawn chairs" warp and we are trying to see if the loom has any harness that stick as she weaves.

Our friend Andy dropped by today with some alpace fleeces for us to look at and Karin took three and I took two. Did we need them? No we did not!

Around here the 5th Tuesday of any ole month that comes around means that it is a potluck Tuesday! My friend LouAnn came up with that idea several years and we have been keeping up the tradition!

Another thing that LouAnn did was she came up with Challenges for us. We usually rolled our eyes but did them anyway! Well it has been a couple of years since LouAnn passed away and we haven't done a single challenge since then, until now! Karin and I put our heads together and came up with one. In 5 months there will be another 5th Tuesday and I am challenging our group to do a project(s) that has either been put off because they were afraid to start it, or one that has been languishing forever, you know anything along those lines. Also, it doesn't have to be weaving, it can be any craft at all! Details of how this will unfold are coming, they are to think about it and decide by next week what they want to work on. I will have a list, but they do not have to sign up if they don't want to. So far I have 5 different projects on my list with room for more! I think a good name would be the "Unfinished Business Challenge"!

Now it is time for "Show and Tell"! Dana took an inkle weaving class last weekend and brought in her watermelon band. She also brought in a bag holder shaped like a possum!!!!! You can see from Laura and Susan in the background how funny we all thought it was!

Susan brought in a set of towels she had finished this week. She had some trouble with one of the colors bleeding in the wash even though she had used color catchers! It looks like the copper color was the culprit. Susan got the towel pattern from "Simply Towels" ( I saw several ideas in that book that I want to try for sure!)

Barbara emptied her looms at home this week! She brought in a scarf made with some sparkle and a grandchild in mind and she finished a wrap for the shop upstairs.

That is all I have for you today! Karin and I will be at the Museum of Appalachia on this Friday and Next showing Thousands hundreds of kids how to wash and card and spin the fleeces that come off of the sheep, I will try to get some pictures of the day. Until next week this is Tina, for all!