My Mountain Home

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Sasha and Dieken are enjoying new bones and sunshine today.

Working on the third towel. I'm putting twill stripes on this one.

Second Towel

Richard's son John and two friends came up for a hike yesterday, the trip report is here. This is Richard and son John.

 

 Dieken accompanied them, while Sasha was left looking out the window and waiting for their return.

 

I always seem to spend quite a bit of time cleaning house when I have it to myself and yesterday was no different, but after I get it to a certain point I turn to my crafts.  I finished a second towel on the warp; this one has a weft stripe pattern at each end.

I've also begun a strap on the inkle loom but am not happy with it and will probably just start over.  The strap is for the tote bag which is planned from the last warp on the Victoria.

  

 

Stop Sign

A hike up to Golden Lake is planned for Saturday, so we drove up that way this afternoon to see if we could get all the way to trailhead.  A tree had fallen over the road and we had to park and walk.  When the rain began in earnest, and the hail started, we turned around.  It's probably another 15-20 minutes to the trailhead.

All pictures are clickable.  This is what it looks like past the tree.  We had to climb a very muddy bank to get around the tree and were surprised to see snowmobile tracks in the mud. The tracks went on up the road as far as we walked, a minute of snow and 5 minutes of gravel.   

 

Here's how the towels are coming.  I gave up the temple because of the bandaids it was requiring, and now the edges are definitely drawing in :(

 

 

 

Weaving Again

It's been a long time since I've sat at the loom, but last week I wove off a warp that had been languishing on the loom for far too long--almost embarrassing to say how long.  Did anyone guess two years?  The cottolin warp produced 90" of dark brown merino fabric, destined to be a lined and pocketed tote bag at this point, a small table runner, plus a cotton hand towel for the bathroom. The weaving of it produced something greater though, as I decided to acquire a larger loom for more weaving width; a floor loom capable of weaving rugs.  

 

The table mat is pictured on a colorful Swedish rag rug that I found on eBay.  

I shopped the weaving classifieds until I located the loom I lusted after wanted, a Glimakra Ideal with a 40" weaving width.  Before I sell the Victoria though, I decided to warp it again for some kitchen towels and some warp to leave on for the new owner.  I was surprised at how quickly this went, beginning on Monday and weaving today, with yesterday not counting because I was subbing at the elementary school!

The new loom, which I'll pick up in Oregon next month, looks like this:

   

 

Mother's Day celebration

I was lucky enough to spend Mother's Day with my mother, who is turning 97 in July, and my daughter and my daughter in law, their spouses and kids!  There were 13 of us and we really had a grand time.  The weather in Las Vegas was perfect, no snow for sure, but not too hot either.