Twisp of Fate

Back from a weekend at the coast, I am holding down the fort while Rick is in Seattle with his mom and sister.  It’s been a busy week.  I went to work on our “for sale by owner” advertising efforts and we hope to get Benson Creek on the market officially by next week.

Things are also progressing on the shop updates.  The crew arrived to work on enclosing the RV parking area to make it part of the woodshop.  In fact, I was on the phone with my mom this morning when the cement truck showed up.  Had to get some pictures for the record (sorry Mom!  didn’t mean to hang up on you quite so fast!)

These cement pours always seem so frenetic.  It’s a race against truck and time, I guess.

I stayed up way too late last night, finishing the handout for my guild challenge project.  We will be presenting our results at the meeting tomorrow.  I used my WeaveIt software to do the threading, tie-up and treadling plans but I only want to use one piece of paper (double sided) so needed to do a lot of manual cutting and pasting to get it to fit.

Then I went into the guild room today and wove some more on the curtain, so I could get pictures of the other two patterns.  The weaving is now more than half done, so I should be able to get it off the loom by next week.

Motif 2 is a checkerboard, but I treadled it 2 times, 4 times, then 6 times in the middle, to experiment with the effects:

Bronson Lace Motif 2

Motif 3 is the result of just doodling using an Excel spreadsheet where I made the cells square.  This is the one where it finally sunk in that I can only design something that is symmetrical around the center block, given the threading:

I’ll take some pictures of everyone’ s projects at the meeting tomorrow – should be interesting!