GENNY

This is our beautiful Genny, who we had to say good bye to on Tuesday. She was a cat with with a lot of attitude. GenGen feared nothing and no one and was definitely the Queen of the cats around here. We didn't get her until she was over 3 years old because she was a show cat before that and won lots of ribbons and awards. She knew she was beautiful and special and expected to be treated as such by humans and cats. When she retired and moved in with us, we had to be careful to quickly close cabinets and closets or Genny would be in there exploring and knocking out stuff as she went. And she loved to race me up the stairs but I never could beat her. She was just a funny, sweet girl with huge understanding eyes and a very loud purr. We miss her and the house seems empty without her.


Some fiber accomplishments...

Despite it being a difficult time, I did accomplish some of my goals this week. On Monday, I finished weaving the dark gray and white blanket, so since that was the last day of January, I can say that I WOVE two blankets in a month. It wasn't totally finished until today, though, because I had to hand twist all the fringe and wash it and then trim up the fringe. I am so pleased with this blanket because the border pattern that I designed worked out so well. I should have photos next week for both blankets and can't wait to show them off. There is just something about weaving with handspun yarn that makes the fabric extra special. Even the best commercial yarns just don't have the life and vitality that handspun does.

The last couple of days I worked on drumcarding some dyed wool for the fiber exchange on the Dye Happy list. It was easy to just mindlessly drum card and not have to do anything that required much concentration. I am in 2 groups and like both of the color combinations that I did and actually got them mailied off today, well ahead of the deadline.

I think that I will get another blanket up on the loom next week sometime but not be in a hurry to weave it off and in between that, work on a tapestry since I miss tapestry weaving and would like to get back to that. But I feel like I'm on a roll with these blankets and hate to stop that too.