Twisp of Fate

We started moving all of my stuff, and there is plenty of it, into the new studio space the past 2 weeks.  It’s starting to come together!

Today Rick enrolled the help of 2 strong men and another truck and trailer, and moved some heavy equipment up from the Benson Creek shop, as well as the leather fold-out sofa and the area rug to go up into the studio.  Also many boxes of books, magazines, tools etc.

I now have the two-sided bookcase from Benson Creek installed, plus my mom’s sewing table (which my Dad made).  So plenty of shelves and drawers to store things.  All my knitting yarn and spinning fiber is lined up in plastic storage boxes, but at least I can see it all now.  Eventually we will have side walls with sliding panels and it will be a lot neater looking.  All in good time.

The little loom is set up for a weaving workshop I am going to in Seattle next week.  The teacher is Bobbie Irwin from Colorado, and the class is titled “Shimmering Colors:  The Magic of Irridescence.”  She taught this class last summer at the weaving conference in Spokane, and I remember thinking it sounded really interesting at the time.  She will also be the keynote speaker next Thursday at the Seattle Weavers Guild monthly meeting, which I will be able to attend finally since I will be over there anyway!

We were each assigned a portion of the color wheel for our warp colors in pearl cotton – as you can see, mine is yellow-orange through red-orange.  I’ll take lots of pictures and post to the blog in a week or so!