Twisp of Fate

Almost a year ago, a friend and fellow Winthrop Gallery member, who is a professional photographer, took some furniture pictures for us, and we negotiated a trade for some rugs she wanted for her house.  Her business website is Reflected Light Images.

I had wound the rug warp on the sectional beam before we left for our road trip in June, and just needed to finish the threading and sleying when we got back.  Teri wanted her rugs 36″ wide, but I usually do 30″ wide for the rugs I sell.  So I wound most of the warp onto 15 sections (each 2″ wide) but held back some of the warp yarn, and then wound a limited amount on 3 more outer sections to add another 6″ on for the first 15 yards.  It worked like a charm!

Teri had picked out a number of different Pendleton “wooly worms” in colors she liked, and the challenge was to combine them in an interesting way, get 3 rugs the lengths she wanted, and not run out of material!  I had very little left when all was said and done.  Here are Teri’s three rugs:

R175

R176

R177

So here’s the other thing about my friend Teri – she and her husband live at the very top of Rising Eagle Road, which last week’s fire is named after – the one between Winthrop and Twisp.  I had heard their home was spared, and wrote to her earlier this week.  She replied:

“We are home. Returned Saturday morning to a devastated landscape and constant smell of smoke. Our house is intact. What a relief. We are very lucky and ever so grateful for all the fire fighters and helicopters that saved our house. Friends and neighbors were not so lucky. You might want to consider removing some of your pine trees. No power yet. I have a love hate relationship with our noisy stinky generator. “

And this morning I read about their experience last Friday on her personal blog, My Everyday Photos.  Of course, it has pictures too.  It’s worth a look, to get a sense of what it was like to have 15 minutes to get out, watch the whole scene unfold from a distance and think your home is gone, then find out it has barely been saved by all the firefighters, helicopters dropping water on it, etc.  And what it looks like up there now.