When I grow old and losing my hair.......

many years from now. Will you still be sending me a Valentine,Birthday Greetings ,Bottle of Wine. The Beetles....... On Thursday of last week it was my birthday I reached the grand age of seventy. I had got up and after switching on the tea kettle I went straight into my loom room to fiddle with my weaving. My husband stuck his head around the door, and said" I bet you didn't think you would be doing this at seventy" Your right I didn't. There I was sitting in my flannel nightie and hair uncombed messing around with twisted threads. I have been fooling with this warp for an entire week. (However that is a story for another day.)
My friend Joan Cameron came down and visited with us, bringing me a birthday present and this hand made card. I was very touched that she found me special enough to give me a piece of her Theo Moorman Technique. This card is so lovely I'm going to get it framed, it is definitely is a keeper. Joan is my good friend an mentor in the weaving world. As the expression goes Joan has forgotten more things than I will ever know about weaving.

Well this was going to be a longer entry. However I hit the wrong button and lost my blog. In my search, I decided to change the background. Since I feel slightly dotty doing something that dumb.
Tomorrow I'm off to the hospital for a horrible procedure called a Gastroscopy. I had better get off my butt and get somethings done. Because tomorrow will be a lost day.

Romney Sheep and Hand spindling

A while back I went off to the spinning group toting only my hand spindles. My friend Terry whom I think of as the guru of spinning, had shown me how to get started on the hand spindle. I wanted to show her that I'm nothing if not persistent, and perhaps a wee bit obsessed, when I want to learn something new. She was dutifully impressed with my efforts. It also got some of the other ladies interested in learning this ancient skill. I said to my friend Terry, I have read the Alden Amos big book of spinning. His foot notes are hilarious and he is extremely opinionated. That is just my personal opinion of course. I said, the thing that stuck with me was he said to order a bag of Romney fiber and just start to spin. Well I have been in several fiber source's and never seen Romney for sale. Terry says "I have a big bag of Romney at home. I will bring some round". (I'm thinking Crikey she giving her valuable fiber away to the likes of me).

Any way around she comes a few days later with this bag of of really lovely brown wool. We had tea and a short visit. And I immediately started to spin it up . For any fiber enthusiast you just don't know what your missing. Its gorgeous stuff , easy to spin really soft, and lovely to knit.

Terry and I will eventually get together again and drool over the Romney.

I looked up Romney sheep on the net. And they started life in England. We english people are so smart to produce a sheep like that. We do get some things right. Not like the politican who spent the tax payers money on getting his moat cleaned out. But I digress here.

Changing the subject my double weave is off the loom. I have woven in some of the skips in the bottom layer. When I say some, I thought I had all of them however when I took it into my laundry room I noticed a tiny one. So I will go over it again before wet finishing the piece. I will next ask Kiera if she would like me to make it up into a bag that reverses. She might need a new bag for her ballet slippers.