Getting warped
Mar. 1st, 2008 08:28 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
altivoGot a warp beamed onto the workshop loom today, and 96 of 240 ends threaded before the light started to fail. I don't like threading by artificial light, though weaving under it doesn't bother me. I'll get the rest threaded tomorrow and the weaving started. This will make cotton towels for the towel exchange my guild is having. The pattern I'm doing is called "Wall of Troy" and is a winding twill that looks like an overhead view of battlements or something. I'm using brightly dyed mercerized flake yarns, since this year's judge is a color specialist. The warp is a saffron gold color and the wefts will be dark teal and cranberry red. I'm curious about the dye used on the warp yarn, because it smells like daffodil flowers to me. The other cottons have no smell in particular, but this is quite noticeable.
Gary made an Indian dinner that was quite tasty, with the help of some boxed "kits", you know, the "just add chicken" or whatever kind of thing. There was a very spicy eggplant dish, an interesting vegetarian stew made of soft cheese curds and vegetables, and a Moroccan (I know, that's not Indian) version of snow peas with sesame, as well as basmati rice and chicken korma (flavored with cocoanut milk and cilantro I think.) He also baked pita bread, which tasted just as good as it smelled, and sourdough potato bread which we haven't cut into yet. The pita was served with home made hummus.
Something has apparently been trying to build a nest in a large hole in one of our oak trees. It's about twelve feet above the ground, in a spot where a large branch broke off or was cut off long ago. The opening is about 6 x 12 inches, which is generally too large for any birds around here. But there are big heavy twigs sticking out of the opening, and they didn't just get in there by accident. I believe squirrels build nests from leaves, so this doesn't seem like squirrel activity. We have several woodpecker species, but they all excavate their own nest holes and none are large enough to want to use this one. I can only guess that it's an owl or else a wood duck. So far we haven't seen anything going in or out.
Off to spin some cotton now, since I have to help teach a session on cotton spinning a week from today.
Gary made an Indian dinner that was quite tasty, with the help of some boxed "kits", you know, the "just add chicken" or whatever kind of thing. There was a very spicy eggplant dish, an interesting vegetarian stew made of soft cheese curds and vegetables, and a Moroccan (I know, that's not Indian) version of snow peas with sesame, as well as basmati rice and chicken korma (flavored with cocoanut milk and cilantro I think.) He also baked pita bread, which tasted just as good as it smelled, and sourdough potato bread which we haven't cut into yet. The pita was served with home made hummus.
Something has apparently been trying to build a nest in a large hole in one of our oak trees. It's about twelve feet above the ground, in a spot where a large branch broke off or was cut off long ago. The opening is about 6 x 12 inches, which is generally too large for any birds around here. But there are big heavy twigs sticking out of the opening, and they didn't just get in there by accident. I believe squirrels build nests from leaves, so this doesn't seem like squirrel activity. We have several woodpecker species, but they all excavate their own nest holes and none are large enough to want to use this one. I can only guess that it's an owl or else a wood duck. So far we haven't seen anything going in or out.
Off to spin some cotton now, since I have to help teach a session on cotton spinning a week from today.
