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Upper Cape Breather

By |August 20th, 2018|Categories: Miscellaneous, Weaving|

We've done it! Our 4,000 miles from one coast to the other is quite a trek but it also provides a breather - a different environment, a different approach, a different daily effort. The beach is as beautiful as always even if those mosquitoes are crazy bad (as are the deer flies) and I am allergic enough to both that [...]

Plans – ha!

By |July 30th, 2018|Categories: Weaving|

Photo by Nancy Olszewski - all rights reserved I was totally stuck the other day - couldn't think of anything to weave or any reason to weave it. It led to a bit of a funk and I was pretty vocal about it. In sympathy and support, my daughter suggested thinking about a butterfly. And then my [...]

Summer color in wool

By |July 2nd, 2018|Categories: Weaving|

raw materials Have I mentioned I love summer? I love the warm weather, the sudden storms, and the blue skies. I can't get enough of the colors of all the flowers - almost infinite in their variety but somehow also a really refined palette. Plus all the local fauna provide us with sounds and colors that don't [...]

Spinning the day away

By |June 25th, 2018|Categories: Spinning|

I have been spinning a lot lately. I am determined to make a sizable dent in my fiber stash (ha!) which is clearly out of control and summer is the perfect time. First, and very importantly, I can spin outside.People in the Pacific Northwest are fanatic about gathering their sunbeams while they may - by which I mean we are [...]

Atomic Age Calling

By |June 3rd, 2018|Categories: Weaving|

A nearby house has been abandoned since before I moved into our neighborhood but lately someone mowed its lawn. Curiosity won the day - I went to look inside and, oh my! It took me back to my childhood and those imaginings about the results of an atomic war. Would this be what things would look like? This poor house [...]

The inspiration of color and shadow

By |January 18th, 2018|Categories: Uncategorized|

This post started out as something entirely different - 3 months ago! No, make that 4 months ago now! I still feel the title is a good one - maybe sometime I'll manage to talk about that a little - but really the amazing thing is how hard it is to write a blog post that seems worth asking someone [...]

Year end…

By |December 23rd, 2017|Categories: Knitting, Spinning, Weaving|

The end of the year has rolled around so quickly. Here I sit packing a suitcase and trying to think where all that time went. Even though I have, as previously noted, spent a lot of time doing rehab work on our church, I managed to get a few fiber-related projects completed. I like to focus on something with each [...]

Another Renovation Summer Complete

By |October 11th, 2017|Categories: Miscellaneous|

It is definitely Fall and we have returned to the Pacific Northwest - a sad and fond farewell to the church for another year followed by a (long) trek across the continent. Every year we renew our love for the area and our church becomes more of a cottage by the sea and less a community house of worship. It [...]

Progress in all things

By |September 15th, 2017|Categories: Uncategorized|

The church has new floors! Well, not new exactly, but newly sanded and refinished. Thanks to Serge - a magician with a sander and a lover of dogs - our old church floors have been given a new life. They look spectacular. We have had a few setbacks. The tiling looks great, but the shower enclosure from Jade Bath was [...]

So Long August

By |September 5th, 2017|Categories: Uncategorized|

As the days shorten and the nighttime temperatures cool, our church is slowly evolving. The colors change outside and in as the quality and angle of light changes with the seasons. I love the warmer fall tones, but I miss the warm summer temperatures. We continue to make slow but steady progress on our bathroom. Paint is on the walls [...]

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