Category: road trip
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Upcoming Road Trip
It was supposed to rain today so Doug got the van loaded yesterday. It is so full he had to leave 3 bins of stuff at home! There is just room for one small suitcase each and everything we bring has to fit into our respective suitcases – no hang up for spare clothing. I’m…
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Home Again
Managed to roll in the door mid-afternoon after a lovely drive home. Although it is much colder here, it was dry and the sun even shone most of the day. I really don’t mind the cold when the sun is shining brilliantly on the hills and valleys. The first order of business was to go…
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Count Down
It is that time. Yes, not quite time to leave, but too little time to do much of anything. Anticipation builds. Will everything go off without a hitch? Will the weather co-operate? Will flights be on time? Will I get food I can eat? Did I bring enough emergency rations with…
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Number Crunching
The poll is over and the winner is quite clearly a publication. Of course the target audience of this poll was, ahem, weavers, who can make their own tea towels, thank you very much. :^) However, it was interesting to see that there was some interest in a tea towel, too. And there is nothing…
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Not Quite Over
Apparently 2013 wasn’t quite over after all…. Since my post saying that all production from that day onward would be for 2014, I have finished the blue/green tea towel warp, including hemming most of the 17 towels from that warp, wound a white place mat warp, wove it off, cut and serged ready for wet…
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Going ‘Dark’
Here is one of the towels I did last week. After wet finishing the reed marks have pretty much disappeared even at 4 ends per dent. The next two warps are 30 epi and for several reasons, I switched to a 15 dent reed and 2 per dent. One more sleep. The weather is supposed…
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Palate Cleansing
warp for blue/white place mats stuff piling up for the trip Since arriving home on May the what? 18th? I have woven off the place mat warp I left on the loom, 36 painted warps (4 scarves each warp), the 10 yard warp on the AVL and beamed the blue place mat warp which I…
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Getting Ready, Set…
My flight leaves at 7 am to Vancouver, then to O’Hare and finally to Boston. It will be a 13 hour trip plus the 3 hour time difference at the other end. Today I’m trying to tie up a few loose ends, leaving some things for when I get home because I just can’t cope…
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A Day Off – Sort Of
It took me a long time to get into gear today – even with 3 cups of high octane coffee. The conference had been pretty intense, the worry over the flooding in Alberta affecting my friends (and not to put too fine a point on it, selfishly, sales at Fibre Week in Olds) and the…
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A Day Off – Sort Of
It took me a long time to get into gear today – even with 3 cups of high octane coffee. The conference had been pretty intense, the worry over the flooding in Alberta affecting my friends (and not to put too fine a point on it, selfishly, sales at Fibre Week in Olds) and the…