Cyber friends! What a generous lot of people!

Monday, March 28, 2011

So not only did I get a care package in the mail last Friday, I also got one on Saturday.   The first one was from my Ravelry friend, Gail in Conn. a.k.a. Catseye03.  Then  on Saturday I got one from another Ravelry friend CPhilip in Kentucky.  Unfortunately I was so very excited I forgot to take pics of the yarns that cphilip sent.  They are already proudly on my shelf that holds all of my yarns that are on cones.  In my heart they are like eye candy and I just love looking at all of them.  Added in with my yarns from the art center, cones that are still usable that Ms. Carol (my roommate) had, my own supply of #10's and #3's, plus what Gail added....well suffice it to say I have alot more color choices now.

That was and still is the only small disappointment I have with the warp face weaving.  I have boxes and boxes of yarns upstairs...all are for tapestry and knitting.  Very few were usable for what I now do.  Kind of crazy to take on another art form that requires I buy yarn, when I have an entire attic full of yarns.  

Fortunately through the generosity of others, I am good to go.  I love you all and cannot say 'Thank you!' enough.

On a road trip!

Yesterday Carol and I took a road trip to Tallahassee.  Moultrie has a great Art Center but not a single art store.  She wanted to go to a bead store and to take us on a lunch date to belatedly celebrate our birthdays!

So we found a great bead store where she (of course) blew her budget up.  LOL We ate waaaaayyyyy too much good food at Olive Garden and then we went in search of yarn shops.

We found 2!  They were both fabulous!  Now keep in mind that I don't actually NEED any yarn.  My friend KraftyMax really loaded me up on my birthday, and then again when I went to visit her in Jacksonville for a week.  I literally have two large trashbags of new yarns.  However, right now I am immersed in warpface weaving on my new Mini Wave Gilmore Loom.  It actually requires a much different kind of yarn than what I have boat loads of in the attic.  Most of my yarns are singles, alot of them spun by me, for tapestry weaving.  Now I need very smooth, tightly spun yarns.  Cotton or maybe silk.  Unfortunately most of the yarns we found were of the softer knitting variety.  Gorgeous silks, angora, wool, bamboo...the colors were GORGEOUS!  I would be terrified of making a warp blub again and wasting those beautiful yarns.  They were also out of my financial league.  

However, at the second shop, Carol found some roving while I was in the restroom, and couldn't let me walk out without it.  So she bought it for me.  It is by Louet and the color is called Sunset.  I was looking for some fall colors and I think we hit on it perfectly.  Below you will find pictures and I of course will keep you posted on the spinning of it.