First Entry
Aug. 20th, 2006 02:10 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
helwenWell, I finally decided to try out Live Journal.
I got a great spinning wheel this summer, the Kromski Symphony. It's a double-treadle, traditional wheel -- I'll try to post a pic of it later this week. Had some fun spinning some Shetland and then some handpainted Romney wool on it so far. The plan is to spin enough of that, plus get some black Romney to spin up for warp, and weave fabric for a jacket this autumn.
As part of that plan, Lyle and I are having an addition built onto the garage, by our own reno monkey, Scott. The roof is on, as well as the floor base and the outer walls (but not the siding, which we still have to order). Doors and windows should be getting installed this week, and he'll working on putting in the ceiling insulation and the ceiling itself. We still have to get an electrician to put in the outlets, etc. Anyway, once the addition is mostly done, we can move Lyle's rug loom in (currently in the attic at the farm) and I can move in my mom's old loom (8 harness), the spinning wheels, spindles, other small looms, yarns, fibers, etc.
The original part of the garage is slowly becoming a print shop. Thanks to our friend Bill Whitley, we've made a good start! We've also gotten a few things from John Barrett in Chicopee (Letterpressthings), and I've been getting some fonts from eBay.
We just got back from the Pennsic War yesterday (SCA camping event), so today we're mostly doing laundry, putting things away, and washing the tent.
We talked about a lot of things on the way home, plans for things/activities over the next year, goals, etc. One revelation was that neither of us missed television while we were on vacation! So, as we both have a lot of other things we'd like to be doing, that tv-watching tends to limit (smallish room), we've decided to cancel our cable service.
Garden-wise, the yew bushes need serious trimming, the lettuce has gone to seed, but the tomatoes are going great guns :)
I got a great spinning wheel this summer, the Kromski Symphony. It's a double-treadle, traditional wheel -- I'll try to post a pic of it later this week. Had some fun spinning some Shetland and then some handpainted Romney wool on it so far. The plan is to spin enough of that, plus get some black Romney to spin up for warp, and weave fabric for a jacket this autumn.
As part of that plan, Lyle and I are having an addition built onto the garage, by our own reno monkey, Scott. The roof is on, as well as the floor base and the outer walls (but not the siding, which we still have to order). Doors and windows should be getting installed this week, and he'll working on putting in the ceiling insulation and the ceiling itself. We still have to get an electrician to put in the outlets, etc. Anyway, once the addition is mostly done, we can move Lyle's rug loom in (currently in the attic at the farm) and I can move in my mom's old loom (8 harness), the spinning wheels, spindles, other small looms, yarns, fibers, etc.
The original part of the garage is slowly becoming a print shop. Thanks to our friend Bill Whitley, we've made a good start! We've also gotten a few things from John Barrett in Chicopee (Letterpressthings), and I've been getting some fonts from eBay.
We just got back from the Pennsic War yesterday (SCA camping event), so today we're mostly doing laundry, putting things away, and washing the tent.
We talked about a lot of things on the way home, plans for things/activities over the next year, goals, etc. One revelation was that neither of us missed television while we were on vacation! So, as we both have a lot of other things we'd like to be doing, that tv-watching tends to limit (smallish room), we've decided to cancel our cable service.
Garden-wise, the yew bushes need serious trimming, the lettuce has gone to seed, but the tomatoes are going great guns :)
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