I am once again shocked at how long it has been since I've blogged.......... Goldie is even asking me WTH??? If you haven't met him before, he is my outside kitty.  He's been year for many years, and refuses to come inside.   I have tried, and he raises quite the ruckus when I do. The only time he has stayed in for any length of time was last year, we had a below zero spell, and I scooped him up and made him stay in the studio with the doors closed, food, water and a litter box, for 3 nights and days.   The only time he didn't cry, was when I was in there. But I did ..read more

January and February are usually a great time to get really productive in the studio. It's too cold and nasty usually to do much, and I'm a hermit at heart, so it  works out. These are a few of the garments I've finished lately. I love dyeing my warps, and I love how the finished product turns out. I am also trying to downsize my stash of chenille.......even though I love the end result, it's not my favorite thing to weave. This is one of the last pieces that Lois wove.  It had issues on one side, she  was kind of oblivious at the end about threads breaking.&nb ..read more

The hot pink and white towels are off the loom.....22 of them.  I am sure sick of pink, which is not my favorite color anyway. I have two Louet David looms, one is 45", and I call that one Big Lou, and the other is 27" and I call that one Little Lou, just to keep it straight. So her comes the Megado, and I am resisting the urge to call her "Meg"......suggestions are welcome. Looms need a name in my world. Finally the hand dyed Turkish cotton/ramie warp is on the loom, and I've started threading. I don't do it all at once.  I can't sit that long on that low stool.  ..read more

Mr. Froggy even got a sweater to wear on Christmas Eve. My granddaughter's response was one of the sweetest things I've ever seen, and made all the  work that went into this more than worth it. I tried to upload a video, but it said it was too long.......at only 1 minute!!  But she was totally surprised, and was speechless, it was precious.  Then she tackled me  which I was totally ready for. After a 5 year break from knitting........which I still don't really understand, as I have knitted my whole life, I started again. It feels like I never stopped, to be honest ..read more

We are having a monster rain storm. If it were snow, we would be buried, but it's 50 degrees outside,  so it's rain. I don't really mind, this is where I'm spending my afternoon. I haven't been doing much dyeing, but another weaver asked me to  dye this for her. My daughter said it looks like a crime scene. It dries overnight in front of my Toyotomi heater....which also keeps the studio toasty,  for not a lot of money. Willie is overseeing my work. Here it is, dry and chained.  She approved, and it is on its way to Illinois. These towels just came off ..read more

This was pretty much the first snow fall, not enough to plow, but that's coming, for sure. If I'm not paying to mow the lawn, I'm paying to plow the snow,  that's the way of it. It is pretty. I actually don't mind winter, as long as the sun shines.   When it's terminally gray, like it has been lately, that gets kind of old. The sun really makes all the difference. We walk every morning, and this morning was pretty cold. During the day I'm in the studio, but in the evening, you will find me and the dogs cozied up right here  in the living room. These pictures ..read more

I wonder sometimes if you are all sick of seeing what I'm weaving..... My life does seem to revolve around it, so there's that. It really makes me happy, but you probably already know that. I've also been busy doing things to my house, because my house also makes me very happy. It's home......and that's powerful. New stair runner. I also have spent a great deal of time getting ready for the Hudson Mohawk Weavers' guild show that I do  every year. It was last weekend, and I am happy to say that I did VERY well.  Over for another year, big sale on what's left, starting Fri ..read more

Anyone who knows cats, knows that they are very good at hiding just how sick they are. Right after my last post, Sydney started walking into walls, and doors.   She stopped using the litter box, and was definitely in distress. I took her to my vet, who explained that she was in kidney failure, and her BP was probably so high, that it caused retinal detachment and sudden blindness. With my heart breaking, I let her go. She came here in 2009, was hiding in my barn.  She weighed 6 lbs and  was very pregnant. She's been here ever since, and she could never get eno ..read more

Eighteen years ago, when I bought this old house for my weaving studio, I put a gas fireplace in the old fireplace.  Over the years, I have only used it a few times.   In fact, I didn't like it. Besides, weaving warms you up so you don't need extra heat. Just a while back, I found a LIVE BAT in the studio, a few feet away from this old fireplace.  The gas insert did not fit perfectly, and I think the bat squeezed through the half inch space around it. That was reason enough to get rid of the fireplace.    I have also wanted to to reduce any gas consumption in th ..read more

When I bought this old house back in 2005, I fell in love with the old "pantry".   I'm sure this was where they stored all their canned goods and probably  everything else, since there are really no closets in houses built this long ago. For many years, I made good use of this space.  At first it was filled with rolls of  fabric for rag rugs, and then when I changed it up after my head injury, and started weaving clothes and towels and yardage, these shelves were full of cones of  yarn. I used to have to use a small step ladder to get to the top shelf. The ..read more