Right time and place

I'm a big believer in waiting for the right time and right place, not pushing things that are not ready. 

As an example, about 3 or so years ago I was given 2 cones of 10/2 perle cotton in the most hideous mustard color. I couldn't imagine what I would ever do with it so it has sat in my stash with nothing planned for it. 

When I finally started putting my toe in the weaving pool I thought it might be good throw away warp that I could practice with. 

Before Thanksgiving I finally wound a warp. In January I finally got the little 4-shaft table loom warped. This is the one I found buried in an out of the way antique shop in the wilds of Kentucky about 3 years ago which I spent quite a while cleaning up and putting to rights but haven't yet used. 

And there it sat. I had plans to do some sort of sampling but just wasn't that excited about starting. But tonight I was digging through some supplies where I found some multi-colored cotton flake that a friend had given me several years ago. I couldn't believe it!  It included the perfect colors to match with the warp that I had waiting. The PERFECT colors. 

Now I can't wait to get started weaving my towels. 

The turquoise on the right is just the waste yarn used to set the warp up and the blue in the middle is a perle cotton I was going to use for my sampling. And the. On the left is the beginning of the cotton flake. 

All of a Quiver

I'm all of a quiver now that my big trip to the UK is looming. All the plans (that can be made in advance) are made, all the phone numbers recorded, all the stuff in the bag and I'm ready, ready, ready!

I'll try to post over the next 2 weeks but can't promise anything. Guess it will depend on how often I can get to a computer.

I had a lovely surprise on Sunday. One of the ladies in our Fiber Arts Guild, Ms. Pat Harper, the amazing, generous woman of stash, brought me some perle cotton. Now, she did tell me she was going to bring me some. I was thinking a few balls of the little DMC perle cotton. What was I thinking!! She brought me a trash bag FULL of sizes 5 & 8 perle cotton - 60 balls/skeins of perle cotton PLUS about a dozen spools of decorative colored edging thread. The cotton was mostly of 2 brands (I'd never heard of either) but one brand has almost 300 yards and the other brand has almost 500 yards of cotton. Geezaloo! The cruel thing is that as I was going through the bag drooling like an idiot, I kept thinking - ooh, I could do this with this one and with that one I could do this and use these beads and ooh, I can't do any of that now. No time before the trip and I don't think I'm quite insane enough to bring beaded knitting or crochet on the trip. I can't guarantee that until I'm off but I don't think I am. The thing that's got me going absolutely potty is a gorgeous rayon thread (about size 8, I think). There are 2 skeins of white and 2 skeins of champaigne. They are going to be so, so, so...I can't even think of the word...knitted with beads. I'm all of a quiver thinking about it!