Life is good and busy, as it normally is. No drama, no unexpected surprises and its almost boring! Except, I’m rarely bored, so what’s up with that? Its called prepping. At this stage, I just want to hit the road, be done with it all. I’ve actually evaded this leg of any given journey, then later regretted that I did not take the time to do it right. What am I talking about? Its called re-organizing, packing and making sure everything is in good shape and then load the rig. This is the time one double thinks, makes lists, double check this and that – I have long since learned, you don’t wait until the last minute, not even the last week to do this basic stuff.
My break time was sitting back and watching my neighbors swap rigs and move all their belongings back and forth. Both rigs are 5th wheels, now how did they get that one into that parking space the wrong way? I will have to wait and see. I finally remembered to caption the photos, so hover over them with cursor.
One of my preps, was to get my tapestry loom dressed before I go. I hope to sneak in an online class as a refresher before I leave, so it looks like I know what I’m doing – laughing at this, as its been several years since I attempted a tapestry. But this is the loom that will now travel with me out on the road. All its yarns, accessories have been organized and loaded into my RV. Yesterday, I also loaded my RV with my spinning wheel and fiber to spin up some yarns too. That’s for the RV, but for the shed, we got the warping wheel setup (see picture above, lower left corner).
The warping wheel is my preferred method of dressing my floor looms. Dressing a loom, is putting on the warp – the lengthwise of any fabric. I use sectional beams and this warping wheel allows me the freedom to design within each 2 inch section, if I so choose. But for my small floor loom, decided to put on just 2 colors, alternating all across the warp. I love to weave Shadow Weaves, a 3D effect, and this will be for cotton kitchen towels. Do not yet know what shadow weave I will use, but once I get going, will post pictures of that. On my big floor loom, I am really jazzed about putting on 12 colors in bamboo. I’ve not worked with bamboo so am excited with just that, but I had my horoscope read years ago and the gal that read it, is also a weaver. She designated each color based on the planets, positioning etc of my own horoscope. So this is a one-of-a-kind project and the first just for me. You see, majority of the stuff I make tends to find homes before it comes off the loom. So this horoscope weave is just for me. I think this will be a scarf, but not sure. Again, pictures will be forthcoming. And I’m trying like crazy to get both floor looms dressed before I leave… nice little challenge as its been so blistering hot and there’s no a/c out in the shed.
So I need to get back to work. Have a great day!
Woven Trails 