I am leaving tomorrow for a week-long weaving conference in Bellingham, WA. It is the NW Weavers Conference 2013, sponsored by ANWG – the Association of Northwest Weavers Guilds. I am taking a 3-day pre-conference workshop on Tuesday-Thursday, then the conference itself starts on Friday. It included some mini-workshops (I signed up for 3 half-day workshops on Friday and Saturday) plus a whole slew of other events. So I will file a report in a little over a week!
Meanwhile, here are some pictures of the three rugs I finished this week, plus some shots from our exhibit at the Lost River Winery tasting room in Winthrop. It is on the North Cascades Hwy just west of Winthrop (26 Highway 20). Hours for the summer: Thursday through Monday 11-5 pm.
Here are pictures of the three rugs I took in the studio before taking them up to the tasting room yesterday. They are all woven with a mix of smooth (“wooly worm”) scraps and fringed selvages I get from the Pendleton Woolen Mill Store in Portland, OR. I pretty much have to pick these out whenever we are down there, as you never know what they are going to get in from the mill in Pendleton, OR from week to week. The “wooly worms” are just dumped into a big rolling bin, and I have to go “dumpster diving” (a very dusty affair) to pull out wads of the colors I like. The fringed selvages come packaged in plastic bags, but as I said, you can’t predict what they are going to have at any moment in time.
R140
R141
R142
and here are some pictures I took this morning up at the tasting room:
back wall behind the tasting bar
main wall to right of tasting bar
on the left as you enter the tasting room
Rick’s entry table from live edge Western Bigleaf Maple and East Indian black walnut
Do notice the beautiful display hangers Rick made for me, using cherry, for both rugs (using drapery ring clips) and scarves. They are suspended from the picture railings above with fishing line. He will finish up the wine cabinet (in clear vertical grain fir) this week, so I will get a picture when I get back from conference!
Twisp of Fate 
Hi Katie and Rick,
I’ve just discovered your lovely blog in a search about cleaning up looms, Macombers more specifically. I was hoping to find you on Ravelry, no luck, so that I could ask specifically about how Rick was able to remove and restore the rusty rods that the lower jacks pivot on as well as clean up the rusted metal scissoring parts connecting the jacks. I passed on buying a Mac with very rusty parts because I wasn’t sure I could get the rods out of the wood.