Spring!

It is actually warming up here! I am sitting right now without anything wool on, no wool socks or sweater and I'm warm. It was a mild winter but a cold, long early spring but now the trees are budding out their leaves and the dandelions are blooming and things are looking promising. The best part is that we are getting rain which is desperately needed or there will be lots of fires this summer.

The last couple of days I have assembled 2 purses with all the bands I wove the week or two before that. Now I have to get some lining fabric and one of the purses needs some pottery type beads that will be fun shopping for. It has a native American look to me and the construction of the bag is different than I have done or seen before and I really like it. This is a shape that I will do again. The other bag is shades of blues and it is a pouch shape with a flap that comes over and there is fringe along the flap. I still have to twist the fringe and add beads to it. I usually weave the bands and see how they work together and then when they are all finished, I figure out what sort of purse they need to be. Both of these bags came together just the way they should have.

I am writing or rather, was supposed to be writing, an article on storing woolens for the summer for the newspaper. But every time I got started thinking about the article and moths, I would notice all the exposed wool around and have to wash and put away either fleece, yarn or clothing, so I still have not worked much on the article. I need to finish that today, ignoring all the wool still around, and then I can store up my fiber. But I did wash up a lot of mittens, scarves and sweaters the past couple of days and it is nice to have them put away for another season.