August 17, 2005
Tapestry Weaving
I'm almost ready to weave the inside of the circle:
The loom is a Tornadowood 8 dent paperback loom and the warp is 100% wool, a Jaggerspun grey heather that is very tightly spun... the yarn is stuff I got from eBay that is very similar to needlepoint tapestry yarn... sometimes I weave with a needle, but most of the time I use a crochet hook... keeps from having to thread several colors! I've been beating the warp down with my fingers, but I do have a Snipes fork which I love..and also a walnut comb that Gary made several years ago:
I'm not crazy about how the photo came out, but you can see one of my tools... I'd show you the fork, but it is in hiding at the moment...
Weaving on a Box
Also, I wanted to show you my box weaving project... this box is about the size of one of the flat rate priority mail boxes.
I've been experimenting with it & I plan to do a bit of the Penelope manuever (unweaving) because I don't like the way it looks around the bottom section of the tree & the blues & greens to the right of the tree, I saw (from playing with the weft & reading my Tapestry Weaving book by Nancy Harvey) that there is a way to get the tree to come out narrow and a smoother join... will do the same with the rust and the blue at the upper right...
And here is a better view of the bottom:
And a picture of the corner:
Instructions for how to weave on a box can be found in Interweave Spin Off Spring or Summer of 1997... this issue is out of print, but you can call Interweave for copies. I started my box weaving project in 1998 and the slits at the top of my box have gotten rather frazzled by now, but there are ways to fix that.... my first box weaving project was on a small box...
Lego Duplo Robot
Reuven wanted me to show you his Lego Duplo Robot:
It's upside down but.... :)
August 10, 2005
Sad Day
We lost Yoda today (Wednesday)... won't go into gory details, will just say that a pack of neighbor dogs decided to chase her & one of them caught her... Opus was part of the pack, but he didn't do it... we're not at all happy with Opus right now because he didn't defend her, but I suppose that's some instinct thing... did a bit of googling on dogs chasing cats & found some good links with info... we'll work with him...
And here's one of the last pictures the boys took of her while they had her modelling some pompoms they had made:
We dug the grave, read fromGenesis 1:24-25 "G-d said, let the earth bring forth every kind of living creature: cattle, creeping things, and wild beasts of every kind." And it was so. G-d made wild beasts of every kind and cattle of every kind, and all kinds of creeping things of the earth. And G-d saw that this was good."
re: creeping things of the earth: we found 2 or 3 cicadas while digging... this stuff was clay, but I really wanted Yoda to be buried near her brother, Tree Cutter & our Pyrenees, Po'Bear (who used to hold her down & slurp her ears...down would come that big white paw... they loved each other)...
And from Job 12:7 "Ask the animals, and they shall teach you; the birds of the sky, they will tell you. Or speak to the earth, it will teach you; the fish of the sea, they will inform you. Who among all these does not know that the hand of G-d has done this? The sould of every living thing and the spirit of all flesh lies in G-d's hand."
And Gary paraphrased from Ecclesiastes 3 "To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven:"...
We'll all miss her...