TGIF!!

Happy Friday to all! This is promising to be another crazy weekend! Tonight has to be about getting the house in order again, and then if there is time, watching the warping video! I’m really getting geared up to want to use my loom so I’m just going to jump in and try. Odds are I won’t break the loom but I may ruin more than a few yards of yarn in the attempt! Guess that will be just one more reason (excuse) to buy more ;)

we all had a great time at the spinning group last night . . . A is disappointed that it is likely her last outing for a while, but I may try to bring her along once in Late Sept. and then perhaps again in November . . . .We’ll see. Everyone there has been so wonderful and encouraging with her, its so great to see such an enthusiastic budding fiber artist, esp. in someone so young! I think the rest of us are getting a real kick out of watching her talents develop, its like being on an adventure! And the child has no fear, none of the preconceived notions the rest of us have about how things should be. She is now thinking of looking through both the latest round of fashion magazines and knitting magazines to get ideas for her sweater and then possibly even designing it herself! She hasn’t even finished her first whole knitted wearable yet and she is planning to spin, dye, design and knit her own garment!!!!! I’m really not kidding when I say I see fashion design school in her future!

So our little group that meets occassionally at my house is cooking up our own Dyeing Day! It has been officially set for Sept. 7th. We plan to do it out on the patio, with the burner on the gas grill and 2 portable propane burners so there should be room for all. I ordered 10 shades of Washfast dyes earlier this week, along with the fixings, and guess what? The box arrived today!!!! I couldn’t belive how quick that was, I was expecting to wait until next week, at least! Trouble is, now I don’t know if I can resist the temptation to try them before 9/7 on my own, I might just break down and give it a go!!!!

I do still need to buy some other things, like dye pots, veggie steamers, measuring cups & spoons, squirt bottles, brushes, and perhaps some plastic sheeting? I know I won’t have time to try this over the weekend, much as I would like to, but perhaps over Labor Day weekend I might be able to give it a try . . . .

Saturday we (DH & I) are headed to the South Shore for a cookout at a friend house which promises to be interesting . . . Sunday M and I are headed to RI for a small gathering of a local spinning group which looks like it will be a lot of fun! So an action packed weekend is ahead! I’ll have a full report on Monday morning . . .

Have a great weekend and I hope you have a chance to do something fun and summery before Fall really sets in!