Sock Summit

Sock Summit is over for two years. Homeward bound tomorrow, just a thousand miles to go.


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Location:Portland OR

Sock Summit

The MAC Fairy came and fixed my iPad.
Still at Sock Summit selling our little hearts out, there are going to be a lot of people dancing in silk socks. Makes me happy just to think about it!
Today, they had the second heat of the fastest knitter contest. Some of the ladies had an inch done before I could even tell their fingers were moving!


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Location:Portland OR

Sock Summit

Day 1 of Sock Summit was a total madhouse! Lots of knitters in Portland.


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Location:Portland OR

Sock Summit

Technology and I have not been able to meet on a common ground. As long as I am at home, it works just fine. The minute I'm away, it goes down the toilet. I used to own a Jaguar like that but that's another story. Needless to say I have no Internet until I arrive home.


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Location:Portland OR

Intermountain Weavers Conference

This is a very small conference with not too much happening while everyone is in class, so I'm taking a class in mudcloth. It's more fun than I thought it would be.


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Location:Durango CO

Traveling

Once again the truck is being packed. We are off to Durango CO tomorrow, then on to Portland OR. Two and a half weeks and I'll be weaving again. I am taking a class in Durango. Mudcloth!


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Location:Acton CA

Chameleon Project

Continuing to weave. I tried to take more photos but the fabric is too shear and all you see is the loom below.


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Chameleon Project

Moving right along, the loom is dressed, weft is picked (maybe), setting up to wind a bobbin.


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Chameleon Project

Before my long trip, I had started the Chameleon Project.  I made the mistake of going to a pet store instead of the feed store to buy dog food.  Right up front, where you couldn't miss it if you tried, was a big glass aquarium with the most beautiful Chameleons in it.  I fell in love - with a reptile. I got a clerk and started asking questions and the answers were in the line of, "Oh you need an aquarium, probably 30 or 40 gallons, it should be a vertical one as they (notice the they, you really shouldn't have just one, it might get lonely)like to climb upward, oh and you need heaters, one at the top and one at the bottom. Lots of live plants and fresh crickets of course." By this time a figure I'm up to about $1500. so I decide to take a picture and weave a piece of cloth to remind me how beautiful they are.

That decided, I started my process. At our next conference, I was in Giovanna's booth and found a beautiful hand-spun Italian silk singles called Tulipano, (100gr 1700y) brought it home, gave it to RedFish along with the picture with instructions and had it dyed. I then started dressing the loom, joined P2P2, went on a 6 week selling trip, came home to work on P2P2 and remembered the Chameleon Project.  This picture doesn't do it justice, I will post another when it's taut.

Whew! That was very long winded.  I almost finished dressing the loom today and should be weaving by tomorrow morning if I can sneak away from chores at RedFish.

P2P2 - Decided

I discovered today that I have to finish the project that is started on my loom before I can dress it for P2P2, Yikes!!! The project is on the back beam and half way through the heddles, I worked on it for awhile this morning and will go out again this evening.

In the mean time, here are my photos received from Holly Haynes presented in least favorite to the chosen one.

This is the least favorite of the photos sent to me, it is a shop window in Rome. Very nicely set up but the greens are, well, they just are not in my color range.

This salad looks wonderful and I would love to eat it and I like how they put it on a light blue plate but it has that green.

I love this picture of the Smokey Mountains but I'm back to green, a much nicer green but......

This photo is tied for second place. I really like the colors and their proportions, I will probably use this color combination in the future.

Oh how I love Southwest Utah, in fact, I was very near to where this photo was taken a few days ago.  This is actually my favorite but it's colors I work in quite often so I will just hang it on the wall.

The photo I picked for my inspiration weaving is so far out of my box that I'm surprised myself. I never work in black unless bribed with money. I have never worn black except for shoes but this photo just instantly grabbed me.  There really isn't that much black in it and the grey tones are wonderful, with just enough color shots to make it very interesting. So I'm going to see if I can do a grand weaving!

Thank you Holly for the great pictures! 

P2P2 - Deciding

P2P2 (Pics to Picks #2) An internet weaving design exchange using pictures sent to you by someone else in the exchange.  Each person who joined the exchange received the name of another person to send 6 or so photos to and in return you would receive photos from someone else. I received my photos right before we left on the long trip and looked at them off and on for 5 weeks.  The major problem is deciding which of the 6 photos I want to use as my design inspiration.  Tomorrow I will post the photos and make a decision, gotta get crackin'!

Home

Tired, hungry but safely home.

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Location:Acton, CA