Sunday, August 2, 2009

Busy, Busy

Summer is sailing along. Busy seems to be the word. It's always like this towards in the end. The gardens are full of weeds (too dang hot) . So, I have been spinning, weaving and dyeing. Here are a few pictures...

core spining

core spinning

core spinning

These were all spun using scraps from the carding table. I love core spinning and have to fight myself to ply lately.

I also have been learning to weave with a rigid heddle loom. My first bag, made with handspun and a few commercial spun yarns. I used a 5 dent reed on my kromski harp rigid heddle loom. The warp is bulky lambs pride in an olive green, and the weft is many handspun and commercial spun yarns. It has made for a lovely tote. Of course my DD has claimed the bag and has many girls at band camp requesting one. lol

Sam's new bag