Mark your calendars and plan a visit to the New River Valley. The Blue Ridge Quilt Festival is a wonderful exhibit of quilts and wearables, work shops and a vendor mall. I love the beautiful display of art quilts. (more…)
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Calling all Quilters
Friday, June 4th, 2010
Weaving on my new loom
Monday, February 1st, 2010Finally, I’m weaving!
Weaving on my new loom
After a few months of assembling, reading, putting on heddles, tying up treadles, warping, and putting the warp on, I’m weaving! Of course I picked an ambitious project as my first effort on my 8 shaft Baby Wolf-a 8 shaft star twill in black and cream. My mentor, Lynn Cosell, exclaimned “black and cream, what were you thinking?” when she first saw my choices.
I’ve learned a lot and it’s been frustrating but fun. I learned to weave in the 80′s and have only used a rigid heddle loom since then. My recent classes have included pre-warped looms and lots of sample weaving but no warping.
So next project-I’ll use colors, maybe only 4 shafts, something not 7 feet long, and a thicker fiber just to gain some miles on my new loom.
Back to the loom….
Vacation…a necessary evil!
Thursday, July 9th, 2009Being in the hospitality business, we meet guests each day who are on a getaway, a staycation, a working vacation, a honeymoon, babymoon, or just plain relaxing. So it’s easy to be jealous as you watch a guest read the entire newspaper in one sitting, finish a newly released novel, fall asleep in the afternoon, or enjoy the last chocolate chip cookie in the cookie jar!
I just returned from doing all of that…and it was great! Here’s a few highlights of my trip.
The prior post shared the first few days in Coeur d’Alene for our cooking experience. The rest of my 12 days away in Washington state included time in Issaquah, Whidbey Islands, and Orcas Islands.
My husband is passionate about his dog, Jackson; fly fishing any day of the week, playing golf, good wine and cigars. I’m passionate about cooking, our guests, running our bed and breakfast and more cooking. Do you see the problem? I love to work and he loves to play. Not that he doesn’t love our business but… (more…)
