Progress

I am back from the vacation from Hell, almost over my pneumonia and back to weaving. I have so many ideas and need to organize them. I want to get a lot done be Ann Arbor. That is generally my big goal for the year, have the booth filled for Ann Arbor.

I wove some rugs out of "by products from the textile industry." I sold two of them this past weekend. I am weaving more. I thought that I had more of the forest green "worms" from Pendelton. I am hoping that I have enough to weave a rug. If not I am going to weave them singularly and not doubled. I might be able to do a twill weave that way. I opened the big case of wool scraps that I have. I was not aware that there was fringe on these pieces. I did some test cutting, I am going to have to sew the ends together before I cut, the pieces are just not long enough the way that they are. I think that I will take four pieces, trim the fringe, then sew ends together by lapping them. then just cut and hope that I have guessed correctly. I am cutting them at about 1" wide. I will see if this has to go plain weave or if I will be able to do a twill weave.

We toured the Crafts Center at Berea, KY. There were some beautiful things there. A man wove rag tote bags. He made the handles out of the weft. As near as I can figure he would leave about 6 ends out, braid them then weave those six ends back into the body. These handles were not going to go anywhere. I had decided that I wanted to weave some tote bags, I think that i will be sewing my handles on unless I suddenly figure out how he did this.

I also finally figured out what I am going to do with the sari silk that didn't work out. I am going to put on a 5/2 black perle cotton warp and weave some bags out of the sari silk. I can put those really cool buttons on that I bought from Terri.

OK, lots of plans, now how much will I actually get done before the next show?