T Stands for Tuesday-a Little Catch Up, Weaving & a Journal Page for AJJ

   Hi everyone,

      Thought I would pop back in and connect with the T group this week.

    I had really needed a break for a bit from my social media sites. On Facebook I do not post much there any more, but I do enjoy the groups. I have been posting a bit on my blog here a couple times a week and visiting.

   I am getting back to my weaving again which I am very excited about. If interested I finished and mailed off the handwoven shawl. I was hoping she would share a photo that I could then share here but she has not. My friend is recovering from a severe stroke she had a couple years ago and has had to re learn many things. She did write to me that she loved her shawl.  I made this shawl large, long and cozy.

   My loom is now set up to weave 6 kitchen towels in a twill from the Viking era around the 900's. This is a much finer weave sett than I am used to weaving recently. I have woven around 12 inches so far. Each towel will be 28 inches in length.  I will be changing up the yarn-weft-that I will be weaving with to make the towels a bit different. I just found some white yarn in my stash that I will do a burn test to determine if it is cotton or not. I posted several videos on how I set up my 4 harness loom for this towel project-you can find links at the bottom of my blog page in labels.  For my next weaving project I really want to make some sort of clothing for myself-will post more on that once I decide what I want to make as I have several ideas in the works.

   For any of you that would like to try out a bit of weaving for fun-I just ran into something on Pinterest that looks amazing-pin weaving-you weave 4 or larger inch squares and sew them together-They are called pin looms or zoom looms. some patterns use a little crochet to sew the squares together.

      I have seen this before but this article shows lovely clothing pieces-amazing!  Find here  there are several photos of tops which I love every one and a video   here is one photo     This is the style of clothing I have been interested in weaving on my loom but this is interesting with no large investment. 

Searching-- these little looms come in different sizes and shapes and if you are handy can make your own

and here is a pinterest link full of ideas

Over the weekend I created a journal page with the theme Language at AJJ  This theme intrigued me. At first I was thinking language of weaving-and was looking to see if I had a magazine cut out of a spider web-I do have a couple stamps, but then I ran into this photo and thought perfect.

 I decided on Language of birds 

      I first glued down some packing paper that I love using for a little texture. Deb had sent me a wine label that I really wanted to add to this, but I needed to keep cutting it down and use just the tree. The tree was too large too so what I cut off I just added back in to the left bottom of tree. I also added a scrap I had of an eco printed paper that I had cut down when making cards.

  This turned out to be a fun page to create, especially since I have not made anything in my mixed media journals for awhile. This journal book is now down to around 3 more entries.

    I started back up a weekly event which I usually post on Fridays--Cast Iron Saturdays--where I will share information about cast iron and mostly recipe links for cooking or baking with cast iron-in/on your stoves or outdoors with coals.               I know several of you have mentioned that you no longer can handle the heaviness of cast iron-but many of the recipes will also adapt to other cookware if you enjoy trying out new recipes.

  For my beverage share I took a photo of the last piece of lemon meringue pie with my decaf coffee and whipped cream for breakfast over the weekend. We love pie for breakfast. (smiles)

    One early day last week when the light was just beginning to come in Larry took this photo  His little camera does a better job with evening or early morning photos then mine does. This came out so beautiful and these views only last a very few minutes so have to grab the camera quick

  Happy T Everyone

    and as Ellen always says be Kind out there.