Christmas Question

MAP and I are wondering about a larger family gift for Grammy and Grampy this year. Is it too late to plan? Mary A. says that their refrigerator could use replacing - the door does not shut properly. Another idea is something Grammy mentioned to Mary A. about getting a new dining room set. (I think that would be great because we could pick something smaller and more appropriate to the room.) We thought the refrigerator would probably cost less than a dining room set. What do you think?

Blog Blog Blog

Well, here I am - blogging. I am full of blogging thoughts. I am overwhelmed with creative thoughts about weaving, spinning, and knitting. I need to practice flute for a gig coming up on the 17th and a wedding on Dec. 9. Ahhhh. I need to clean house. My plants are dying. dieing. dead.

Anyway... last night's guild meeting hosted a speaker on Norwegian Tapestry Weaving. Dovetails, slits, cartoons, wise and foolish virgins, Norwegian ponies, dyes, Medieval Times, weaving horizontally versus vertically, sideways vs. something else. This speaker translated an authoritative Norwegian work about Norwegian Tapestry Weaving into English. I did not purchase her book - it did not look like too many did - because I am not in that place, yet.

The Apprentice Weaver's Group met before the meeting - there are 7-9 of us. Next month we will meet and discuss the color wheel we have to make. It's recommended that we make it on plastic canvas and someone else has already all of the yarns that we will need, so we will bring her some money if she can bring the goods. What is the purpose of making a color wheel when we can purchase them easily? Is it so we become more familiar with colors - complementary, tertiary, secondary, etc. with first hand - hands on experience? I suspect that's so. We will have a drafting workshop in late January with Virginia West - a great weaving teacher, author, designer of clothes, etc. I am looking forwar to that. Hopefully on Jan. 21.

Which brings me to blogging about coming to Illinois/ Wis. I can come after Dec. 18th and stay until Jan. 20. Dad says fares are good right now and we were going to work on that tonight, until he was reminded that the Wharf Rat chantey sing is tonight. Ah.

I am going to the dentist at 11:45 to see why I am bleeding between my two front teeth. Blogging is not on my list to do today, but here I am. Unloading my mind. I have a friend at Guild now. Susan Cleveland. She even invited me to sit with her last night. I feel like a school girl. She spins like crazy. She wovethis beautiful scarf made from the hair of her bunnies, her dog, her friend's dog, silk she spun, wool she spun, yarn she dyed. And ribbon. It is really pretty. And soft. She still fondles it a lot. The cream colored bunny is dead. She has a white one now. This was her first woven project. Man. She is very sweet. She lives in the Havre de Grace area, I think. Not close enough to run to for a cup of tea.

I order the Complete Book of Drafting by Madelyn Vanderhoot - probably spelled her name wrong. Looking forward to receiving that. I want to try to read it before the drafting workshop. Hopefully some of it will sink in. I have made a draft already so I am familiar with some of the concepts. Ok. enough of blogging for today. Blog, Eva, blog!!

Contemplate Me Through Leather

My copy of Life on The Mississippi is 552 pages long. Last night, I read sixty some odd pages. I figured out (using those fourth grade math skills Mrs. Aquino taught me) that if I kept up at that rate I would finish the book in ten days. Ten days??? I have two months to finish a book that should really only take ten days? We'll see how long it actually takes.

Did you have to look up what a tontine was? I did.

More thoughts on this later when I am not so dreadfully exhausted. (And hopefully after I've figured out what is the matter with my space bar.) I leave you with this funny: More than once, I've typed "Leif on the Mississippi" instead of the actual title. Methinks that may be a different book.