What have you done today? (Pt 2)

[Phoenix]

Meetings and work.

[odeon]

Browsed the web and logged on here. It's morning.

['andersom']

Okay I really need to learn how to work with a loom and fibres because I would find that so relaxing.

Time to have a look around in thriftshops and secondhand online stuff.

It's addictive, I fear. For me it is not as relaxing as spinning is though. But it is very satisfying. Knitting, at least till now, is more relaxing than weaving, imo. But not nearly as fast in the results. And who knows how it will be when I have weaved more than just this one little practising piece.
The focus needed to warp is something pleasing too. And, thank goodness, it does not all have to be done in one evening.
In my head I am already pondering on the next pattern I want to weave. 

Yes, I can't look just yet but in about a years time I hope to be in a place where i have time to do that. It's something good I could get lost in for a bit.

Maybe you could make it part of a history project.
Look how cool:
backstrap weaving

[Phoenix]

Okay I really need to learn how to work with a loom and fibres because I would find that so relaxing.

Time to have a look around in thriftshops and secondhand online stuff.

It's addictive, I fear. For me it is not as relaxing as spinning is though. But it is very satisfying. Knitting, at least till now, is more relaxing than weaving, imo. But not nearly as fast in the results. And who knows how it will be when I have weaved more than just this one little practising piece.
The focus needed to warp is something pleasing too. And, thank goodness, it does not all have to be done in one evening.
In my head I am already pondering on the next pattern I want to weave. 

Yes, I can't look just yet but in about a years time I hope to be in a place where i have time to do that. It's something good I could get lost in for a bit.

Maybe you could make it part of a history project.
Look how cool:
backstrap weaving

First off, that is incredibly cool. I love how portable it is. But I wouldn't be able to do it because of the dogs. They would trample all over me. I would have to do a tabletop.

[rock hound]

Grocery shopping

[Icequeen]

I cleaned my oven.

['andersom']

I cleaned my oven.

Was there a particular reason to do that today?










I did it the other week, because of I forgot to clean the bottom of the oven after baking a cake that leaked.
When I baked something after that, the smell was far from nice.
So, I ended up with a pristine oven because of it.

['andersom']

I did what I said I would not do this week.....

Yesterday I warped my loom again. And made a start with a free weaving project, using my first spun, not too neat, wool.
Today I did some more on that.

It is funny to notice the differences in how weaving is satisfying. Working on a strict pattern, thought up oneself is great, seeing how the pattern becomes cloth, just the way it should. It has a satisfaction that has to do with the productiveness.
Now I'm doing some free weaving. The end result will probably be a rug for the cats to sleep on. Got a vague idea in my head what shapes there will be. For the rest, it is finding a balance between rhythm and chaos. It is great fun. The satisfaction is not there in reaching what I aimed for, but in doing what I am doing, and seeing how that pans out is a bonus on top of it.
Do wonder how it will hold in the first rough washing though. The wool is from different sheep, and may shrink or not shrink in very different ways.

I like both things, they are very different.

[Icequeen]

I cleaned my oven.

Was there a particular reason to do that today?

Nope. Just in cleaning mode the last few days.

Some people deal with stress by eating choc and drinking wine.
I clean and drink wine.










I did it the other week, because of I forgot to clean the bottom of the oven after baking a cake that leaked.
When I baked something after that, the smell was far from nice.
So, I ended up with a pristine oven because of it.

[Charlotte Quin]

Went walking around the headlands. I parked my car undercover at the supermarket so that's where I went back to to get groceries before heading home. Now I'm doing laundry and cooking my dinner.

[Phoenix]

I made an awesome roast for dinner (yesterday) Thinking about curry for today.

[Parts]

Helped at a wedding

[odeon]

Not a lot, yet. I should dig up the thread about yesterday.

['andersom']

Got kids to school. There are days when that is the toughest job of the day.

[odeon]

I'll drive the daughter to the dentist's for X-rays.