Because sometimes you need to get the cones out and move them around…
I need to sample for another length of yardage and have polar bears on my mind. I am not sure that this is a useful starting point! I’m also not sure you’d know it from the colours of yarn shown above, so perhaps it doesn’t matter.
We have posh new signs in the building. Welcome to the fourth floor.
“Having a think” was posted by Cally on 5 Dec 2014 at http://callybooker.co.uk
It was such a relief to see the sun today after a week of this.
That was taken yesterday at 9 o’clock in the morning! Fog and mizzling rain may be very atmospheric and all, but they are a bit depressing. It was good to have a studio full of colour, as new weavers made their first samplers.
And I haven’t made a thing all day. Well, scones excepted. My mother came over to partake of tea, scones and fire, and then Phoebus and I sat for a while and read the latest Journal. That is such a good way to spend a Sunday afternoon!
“Novemberish” was posted by Cally on 30 Nov 2014 at http://callybooker.co.uk
The builders have left, the Ps are home and we have have gone from this…
to this:
The scaffolding is still up, but no doubt someone will come and collect it when they feel the need of it. The Ps are only just home so they haven’t really noticed the change yet, but the people are very happy with it – even though it will no doubt take us another 15 years to get around to repainting that bit of wall (we might put the pictures back up a bit sooner).
It was a great relief that they didn’t find anything ghastly when they broke open the bricked up chimney, though sadly there were no hidden hordes of treasure either. And it was fascinating to see how our fire surround was constructed. In a word: complicated. We don’t know its date, but it obviously doesn’t get out on many day trips, so it must have found it a shock to spend the night on the patio. We were really impressed with how much care the builders took over reassembling it exactly as it was.
Altogether it has been an exceedingly disoriented week. Spending Sunday and Monday mainly on the road has left me thoroughly confused about which day was which, and having an empty hall and half the house under dust sheets kept me as puzzled about where as about when… In between making pots of coffee for Dan and Peter, I have been getting the studio ready for a taster day tomorrow – all the while half worried that I was going to miss the day myself through muddling up the calendar. I hope I haven’t.
“Fire!” was posted by Cally on 28 Nov 2014 at http://callybooker.co.uk
I seem to have hit a warping patch. It’s funny when all the looms need dressed at the same time – there is so much choice in how to go about it. My approach is, of course, piecemeal and poorly planned, but it works. I could wind all the warps, beam all the warps etc, but I prefer to mix it up and be doing lots of different jobs. Also I can’t use my favourite lease sticks unless I limit myself to a couple of threadings at a time! These little preferences exert a strong influence over my behaviour. I reckon I might as well enjoy those small privileges that I can indulge in.
So at the end of Friday I had a new scarf warp on the Megado ready to weave next week, and three table looms threaded and sleyed for a taster at the end of the month. Two of these are totally ready and one still needs to be tied on. The fourth table loom has not even a warp chain to its name yet, while the Delta is merely festooned with the detritus of other looms’ processes.
I am not sure what I am going to do on the Delta next. Some more yardage sampling is called for, but is not urgent, so I am wondering whether I can sneak in something else first. This would probably be a bad idea. When did I go from being the person who is always on time, maybe even early, to being the person who does things at the last minute (and often late)? I have a feeling that this will turn out to be the lasting impact of doctoral studies: when the only external deadline is years away it tends to corrode the will to get ahead.
Anyway, next week starts on Tuesday rather than Monday as I have to go down to England for a couple of days. Meanwhile it is scaffolding time again! Fortunately it isn’t the total envelopment kind, or we would be completely daylight deprived at this time of year.
And the poor Ps don’t know it yet, but they are about to take a holiday at the cattery while the builders are about. The Ps don’t know it, but the people do – I wonder if the cats would feel any better if they knew how much we dreaded the cats-in-boxes process too? Phoebus in particular is a very bad traveller. On the other hand, he’s an even worse builder’s mate, so it must be endured.
“Days of warping” was posted by Cally on 22 Nov 2014 at http://callybooker.co.uk
The bold…
…and the subtle
“Bold and subtle” was posted by Cally on 19 Nov 2014 at http://callybooker.co.uk
