Archive for February 2010

Sweet Baby Dolls

Feb 23rd, 2010 | By | Category: Featured Posts, knitting

Meet some of the cutest little critters this side of the creek! Here is Slobo’s picture of Emma and her two babies. She is such a good mommy! and one of the babies just after nursing… Nothing like a happy baby! I am so excited to meet Emma’s owner, Sandra! She and my family are [...]



Happy Valentine’s Day

Feb 14th, 2010 | By | Category: Featured Posts, Holidays

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First Weave

Feb 10th, 2010 | By | Category: Featured Posts, Projects

In the previous post I mentioned problems encountered with the first weave on the tabletop loom. Now for the pictures and explanation of the latest changes. I share this not only to track my own projects, but for other newbies… Just as the business end of a spinning wheel is not the wheel but one [...]



Barn Loom Comes Home to Roost

Feb 9th, 2010 | By | Category: Featured Posts, Machines

I believe in one God, Angels, and Saints. I have no doubt that God and one of his sweetest angels, teeny Great-Grandma Lula Belle Ward were watching out for me the past two weeks. The table-top loom that I’ve been building, while it wove a few inches in an hour, required alot of babysitting to [...]



First of many firsts

Feb 4th, 2010 | By | Category: Featured Posts, Projects

There has been progress on the tabletop loom I built a couple of weeks ago as I prepared the first warp (mine and it’s). It consists of 6 yards of Aunt Lydia’s #10 cotton thread for hopefully 5 dishtowels with fringed ends. The warp design comes from a set of dishtowels we bought last year [...]