Long time no post!

Well it seems time has flown by yet again and I have not found time to post here. We have had some lovely hot weather in April but now it is May and really quite chilly . Usually May here is one of the best of the year and really hot.

However, the flowers are liking it and the roses are flourishing with all the rain so that is great. I took a few pics this week but must take some more as I have not had any of the zoo lately. lol

Weaving, well it is very slow. I have been weaving some towels and what with it being plain weave have got a bit bored and found it hard going, really must make an effort to finish shortly and get onto something which is a little more inspiring.

Lots more curtain fabric needs to be made and other bits so must try harder to get at the loom and not spend ages in the garden. That is the trouble with this time of year the veggie patch and flower borders seem to always need weeding!!

Spring is here

Hi there, don't seem to have found the time to post much recently and here we are in March already. The weather is very wet here but mild so the spring flowers are starting to look lovely, so I took a couple of pics today.

I have just taken my latest piece of curtain fabric off of the loom and think it is going to look nice. So far I have just wet finished it and pressed it and hope to do the sewing shortly, so I took an interim photo. It was my first venture into network drafting and this time I used huck which I thought would give me just what I was looking for for the spare bedroom curtains. If it all turns out ok of course! I used a French Navy linen/cotton slub at 12 epi.

February already!

Well Feb is here and the snow is just all gone to be replaced with grey and fog. Hopefully the sun will eventually find its way through it all. Still only one month for us SAD's to go and we can think of Spring. LOL

The hand towels are finished and ready to put in the post and this time I rememberd to take a pic of the finished item. All were done on a cottolin warp but the ones using a cotton weft turned out nicer than the one with linen I thought. I expect the linen needs a lot more using and washing to soften up, but thats how it seems at the moment.

Now I am going to do some studying of my books etc with a view to having a go at network drafting which I have wanted to do for ages. I rather like the idea of using a network drafted pattern for the curtain material that I want to weave next.