Warped the Loom

The tapestry loom is warped and ready to go! The Mirrix looms are easy to warp but when putting on any continuous warp, you just have to hope and pray the phone doesn't ring or some other interruption comes up. But I was lucky yesterday and I got through it smoothly. There is still spinning to be done for colors that I need right after the hem so I will probably try to spin them up before weaving the hem. As in the last tapestry, this one will be woven vertically because it has strong vertical lines with trees again. I hope I can get the spinning done by Monday so I can start to weave early next week.

It already feels like August is flying by and it is only the 3rd. I am going to be a vendor at the Quilting in the Country event again this year and have a variety of odds and ends to finish up before that happens on Aug. 26th. I have a good inventory for the day and I'm trying not to rush to start and finish some things just so I have more and there is time to do that. I have a tendency to complicate things just because there is time to do more and then I get stressed out for no really good reason.

At the thrift store last Saturday, I found 3 wonderful cookbooks. I am pretty much a cookbook addict and love to bake. Two of these are more recent Moosewood cookbooks; huge, thick paperbacks and the other is Beard on Bread. Baking breads is my favorite but this book has the added bonus of beautiful illustrations by Karl Stuecklen. He calls them action drawings and they do show the steps in various bread baking techniques and the yummy looking finished product. I'm not sure why it is so fun to read cookbooks since I only try a small portion of the recipes but I must not be the only one because so many new ones come out every year.

Thanks, Leigh. When I have a problem with something on the computer, I just assume that I did it wrong so it was nice to think it might have been Blogger and not me.