2/8 cotton warp with cotton/linen slub for towel body, 2/16 cotton for hem weft – note cutting line – two picks of twill
Got home from doin’ the Puyallup about 9 pm last night. Today I tried to get organized – banking and such – and in between wove on Fanny working on the tea towel warp I left on her.
The bad news is that just before leaving on the trip my blood pressure went wildly upwards, not even coming down after exercise, with a ‘resting’ pulse rate of 102. Not exactly the numbers we want to see. So I started half a tablet of the diuretic daily, hoping that would do the trick.
Unfortunately, this morning my bp still wasn’t good, but I’m going to continue on half a tablet for a few days and see if it is just the stress of travelling that pushed it up. Seems like I can’t live with them, and I can’t live without them. I’ve got a doctor appointment on Monday for the arthritis I suspect is developing in my left foot. I don’t doubt he will have words about my bp, too. I just hate the thought of having to take yet more chemicals to counteract the adverse reactions to one chemical! 🙁
I’m still thinking about what the future may hold and what path I want to meander down, but right now it would appear that my two priorities are to continue with stash reduction and make sure that I get at least an hour’s worth of weaving in, every day. Having two looms, I ought to be able to keep them going in tandem so that I can always have loom time – each and every day. When I’m home that is.
Tonight I finished off the cotton/linen slub I bought at ANWG in Spokane this June. 😀
There is enough warp for two more towels on Fanny, but I’ll spend tomorrow morning at the guild room talking with a new weaver and getting her started on one of the guild looms. And possibly start getting ready for the next Study Group. I’ve been dressing a loom with the weave structure of the month, present an evening lecture on that structure, then they sort themselves out to weave a sample on the prepared warp.
Karena dressed the AVL while we were away, and got the warp about half threaded. So I’ll try to finish that off tomorrow too. I’ve also promised someone some samples for an article she’s writing so as soon as Fanny is empty, I’ll put the first of those warps on. Since it’s something I already had intentions to do – sometime – having a firm deadline means I’ll actually get to that now. 😀
My friend The Deadline.