Hawes part two...still looking for string at the museum

Warning, photo heavy post, I was having fun taking pics of a braid weaving loom and a Weavemaster.

            Firstly the braid loom, reminded me of the inkle braids that I make from time to time.

Now the Weavemaster, I once nearly bought one of these at a carboot sale whilst in Yorkshire. It would have needed a lot of work but for £20.00 it was worth chancing it but then I came to my senses and realised that there was no way it would fit on the back of our motorcycle along with all the camping gear :-)

Also featured at the museum were locally made quilts

rag rugs

a wonderful millennium wall hanging

and an embroidered sheep

and I almost missed the sampler hanging at the end, similar age to the one I purchased in Scotland, I have no intention of collecting old samplers !! Fortunately this was an exhibit and not for sale.

Setting up simple looms, spears loom

I'm guesting at the local memory cafe again at the end of February and thinking about taking some simple weaving. I have some weaving cards somewhere although they haven't come to light so far in the big clear out. I also have weaving sticks and assorted simple looms to look at. My idea is keep it simple and let everyone have a go.

A large bag of acrylic yarn is lurking in one of the cupboards so I'm ok for fibre, it's more a case of working out how to warp everything up.

So far I've had a play with a couple of them, I need thicker yarn for one of them but I'm sure that I have some., somewhere.

So far I've had a play with a couple of them, I need thicker yarn for one of them but I'm sure that I have some., somewhere.

Guild weaving day

 Last Saturday was guild weaving day although for me it was a bit of a struggle first thing. I woke up, checked the time with Ian who told me it was twenty to seven on the heating clock ( which is 10 min slow) No panic then until I picked up my phone and found out that it was actually 10 to eight !!

It appears that the heating clock had switched to daylight saving time a day early. The next hour was a mad rush to get up, shower, sort my stuff, realise that my inkle loom will no longer fit in the bus luggage compartments on the new bus, grab knitting and e- spinner instead and catch the bus into town.

Why so early? well, my Guild day starts with coffee and breakfast in town as my treat.

Anyway, I forgot to pick up my ear buds and thought I had forgotten my wallet so had to detour to the bank to pick up some cash for the charity sale table,

Nottingham seems to be torn between getting ready for Christmas and Halloween.

After breakfast ( I do like to sit and look out of the window ), I got stuck in a traffic jam, stuck at the rail crossing, and diverted from the normal bus route,

 I eventually arrived at the Guild meeting a little late.
Most people had already set up and there were plenty of looms to have a look at and have a go on.

I may have acquired a new to me loom as well but more about that in another post.

Speak soon x

a quick break from the lace

I still have a strap on the loom, just another foot or so to finish :-)

even the pattern on the reverse is quite pleasing. see bottom of the last photo.

Easter plans

Hi

I've been full of cold this week and I'm actually really grateful for the fact that I don't work on bank holidays! , today's challenge is to sort out the mess that we call home and to finish some weaving since the rain seems to have set in for the day.

The latest strap is nearly finished which gives me around six that need finishing off and the crowd of ukulele ladies is growing ever bigger :-)

Do any of you have etsy or folksy shops?  I could do with some sort of online sales presence but really small scale as I'm often asked if I sell on line but up to now I've not ventured down that avenue. Any advice would be welcomed. 

Anyway, it's 8 in the morning and I'm off to start tackling this....

Who knows what I may find !!!

It's the weekend !!

Hi,
Thank goodness it's the weekend! Sometimes working full times seems a bit too much especially when you were only there for two days in the week previous due to illness.
Today is housework,  going into to town and sorting out one or two financial issues, stocking up on bird seed and trying to find times to chill.
I may buy some black card as we have some pastels at youth club and I thought we might try using them next week.
I also have a band on the loom that needs finishing and adding to the ever growing collection.

As you can see, the strap collection is growing nicely :-)

weaving.....

We are off to the Ukulele festival of Great Britain soon and I usually rock up with my spinning wheel and spend the day in the cafe in Cheltenham town hall whilst he wanders off to do various workshops. At the moment we seem to be workshop free and trundling round my wheel is more difficult these days so I'm planning to take something else.

I mentioned this to one of the musicians who is playing there and he said that maybe I should take a loom this year, an inkle loom would be easier to carry and I just happen to have another celtic strap on one that was recently started.

In the Sunday, the uke players get together and busk en mass outside Waterstones in the centre of cheltenham so I thought that maybe I would hide inside somewhere like Costa with the the small loom and work on this.

well, that's the plan at the moment :-)

using up the jacob

I've been meaning to have a play at this for ages, simply weaving round the cardboard to make a small bag.

I will let you know how it turns out :-)

ikle inkle

Now people who know me will be aware of my fondness for coffee shops, somewhere to knit/spin/whatever and watch the world go by. This week it was somewhere to doodle on squared paper...

 much to the amusement of the regular staff who always take an interest in what the spinning lady is up to! I was trying to come up with a new pattern to use on the inkle loom but unfortunately I don't like the bit inside the diamonds.

I don't like the dashes that travel the centre of the weaving so tomorrow evening I will try and replace them with something else and see how that works out.