Cover up

The curtains are done, nothing fancy!  If you click on the picture you will be able to see the pattern.  I have had this fabric,that I wove at work, for quite some time.  The hubby told me I better get some curtains in the room; where he usually gets dressed.   We would hate to have someone walk onto the porch at the same time he is getting dressed!   The back porch door is the one that everyone goes to when they come to visit.  We hardly ever use the front  door.   I don't want to scare anyone either! (if you know what I mean)

We got another load of  logs in for fire wood.  We were getting pretty low on the wood, good thing the season is almost over!  I will post some pictures of the pile tomorrow.

Bye for now!

What's knew!

This is the next table runner that I am starting.   I was pretty amazed on how well the last one sold.  The client said that I didn't charge enough and he gave an extra 30 dollars.  I will post a picture once I have a little more woven.

I am still lacking on the blogging.  I find myself with not a lot to say, therefore, I don't blog.   I will keep blogging but they will not be regular postings.  When I feel that I have something to report, I will blog.  I will try to keep up with you.  Don't feel bad if I don't post.  I am reading your blogs all the time, just don't have the time sometimes to comment to you all.

Have a wonderful week.

Now Double Dutch

The hubby finished the dutch doors.  We use the back porch, but when we go away for the day, we like to leave the dogs locked in the porch, so that they don't get on my furniture.   The only room the dogs are not allowed in is the living room, because Jake would sneak onto my furniture and now that I have leather furniture there is no way he is going to be allowed in there.   I do not let them into the living room and if we don't lock them out when we go away, they will go right to the furniture!   The old gate was a real al -cheap- o!  I also, leave the dogs on the back porch during mud season until they dry off!

Hope you are having spring weather!

Head Shots

 Thunder the little (pain in the arse) mule!

 Annie the old lady!

 Scout the pony!

Sirocco the Curious George of the bunch!

You will have to forgive us but  mom hasn't groomed us in a while.   She gets a little lazy in the winter months!  Now that it is mud season, she seems to really want to avoid us!  The farm hasn't changed much.  We have learned that we will be getting more chicks in a couple of months and they are going to kick the old hens out of the hen house and we will get to chase them around our pasture!   We still have the steers that we have to listen to when they get hungry, but I hear that we only have to put up with them for another year, I hope they don't get replaced with new ones!  (I think that is a moot point though)   Have a good week and mom will be back tomorrow with some other news to tell you.

Wordless Wednesday (Great Uncle)

Last lesson!

 Treadles with chains that are hooked to the harnesses.  Each treadle will have different harnesses attached.  No two treadles will have the same harnesses as another.  So, as you depress the treadle it will lift a number of harnesses with thread going through the heddles.

 Harnesses that have heddles attached.  As you can see, each harness has a number of heddles on it and will have thread going through them in a certain order.  (see previous lessons)  When a treadle is depressed certain harnesses will come up and others will stay down. You can see that harness 4 is up and harness one is down.

 This is what is called a shed.  As you can see some threads are kept down and others are lifted.  You then put through the shuttle that holds the thread and put that thread through the shed and then let the treadle go, and then I will beat the thread. Refer to other lessons if needed.

This picture shows that the threads are going through heddles that are attached to the harnesses and the harnesses have a group of heddles on just one harness.  The order of these threads is what helps to determine what the design will be, along with what order the harnesses will go up and down at different times when the treadles are depressed.

This particular loom has 8 harnesses and 10 treadles.  Lets say that I want to do a towel in plain weave.  First I would take all my threads and put one yarn through a heddle on harness one then two, then three until I get to harness eight.  My towel will be 18 inches wide and will be 12 inches to the inch. which means that I will have 18x12=216 threads that will be threaded through a heddle and that would mean that being as I am doing a plain weave structure I will have an even amount of threads on each harness.  216 divided by 8 equals27 threads on each harness going through heddles.  Now I would go down to my treadles and I would hook harnesses 1,3,5,7 to one treadle and then I would hook harnesses 2,4,6,8 to the other treadle because plain weave means that the odd harness will go up and the even would stay down on one pick(when I depress the treadle) and then when I let it go after putting my shuttle through the shed and beating it in I will depress the next treadle that will raise the even harnesses and the odd harnesses will stay down this time and then I will put the shuttle through the shed and beat that into the cloth.  As you weave your cloth, you will start to see your design.   Designs can be that simple or can be very complicated.  You can use any type of yarn you like but  some are easier to use for a particular design than others and so on.  This is just the basics you have lots to consider; yarns, how close you want your weave structure, what you want to make, what design to use, what colors to use and what colors will go well together, how to set up your loom!

Wordless Wednesday