Weaving - Towel Exchange

Finally I'm back to warping my loom. This week, I have gotten through the reed and have a good start on the heddles.

Weaving - Towel Exchange

I'm trying to work at least an hour everyday. I'm still measuring.

Weaving - Towel Exchange

I have started measuring warp for the T.H.A.T. Guild dish towel exchange. I had thought to wait until my studio is put back in order but decided that I had better charge on.  I am doing a diversified plan weave with an 18/2 natural hemp, thus doing 2 of my 2009 goals in one project.

Trails - Camping

It was a long trip home, we camped some but it rained a lot so we slept in motels too. Cell phone and internet coverage was very slim or not at all. Very beautiful but great to be home.

We drove mile after mile looking at fields of wild iris the most beautiful periwinkle color.

  No telephone or power lines here, a lot of people used this tree for their shoes when they left town.

A park where we camped one night.

Trails - Selling

There were several garments in the competition that were woven with RedFish Yarn. This Scarf won the Complex Weaver Award. Some of the classes for this Conference started Friday, the main Conference started today and some are next week. Very strange. There were a lot of shoppers out today. The banquet and Keynote Speaker were tonight from 6 to 9, so all the vendors decided to leave at 7.  We walked the Riverwalk to Downtown to have dinner. Spokane is a very beautiful city with parks and lots of art along the river. I especially like this Metal Sculpture.

The Spokane River goes right through the middle of downtown Spokane and there are 2 waterfalls. One is natural and one is man made, it's a serious river. At this time of the year it is very swollen with melt off and moving very fast. The amount of water is unbelievable.  

Trails - Selling

Things you don't notice when you pull into your motel dead tired and just want to sleep.

The Hell's Angel's Spokane Headquarters are across the street.

Next to them is the Crisis Center for Women and Children.

On the other side is a small park for children.

Our Motel has an Espresso Shop called Busty's Bikini Espresso where the girls running it wear bikinis. 

Evidently the bikers help keep the husbands away from the Crisis Center and keep the park safe for the kids.

The bikini girls are very friendly and cute. They are making a mint from the guys in trucks. 

The area is very quite and the beds are good. A fun neighborhood.

We set up today and started selling tonight. Nine to nine are the hours we are working at this Conference. Forgot to take the camera, no pictures tonight.

Trails - Camping

Left Butte and stopped at the Grant-Kohrs National Monument for a stamp. This is one of the oldest cattle ranches in the west. Kohrs ran cattle over 10 million acres of land. We thought the ranch would be about cattle but the monument was about the cowboys who worked the ranch and how they lived. 

This is the Cook at his Chuck Wagon, he explained how the cowboys were fed when they were away from the ranch and gave us Cowboy Coffee. It was good! He also had a hat band that was hitched horse hair. He told us where the Montana State Prison shop was so we had to go look at the hitchings. 

Spent too much time here and had to hustle to get to Spokane before dark.

Made it with plenty of time, start work tomorrow, again.