T Stands For Tuesday & Follow Up on Class Projects Lots of Photos & a Giveaway

Another Tuesday is upon us and Just where has July gone?? 

Welcome to our T Party-T Stands for Tuesday with our hostess Bleubeard and Elizabeth-find link in my right hand column, you are most welcome to join in. 
    Only requirement is to share a photo of any beverage you are drinking.

     Summer will be totally over before we know it but I do love September and October here in the woods. The weather has been horrible for the most part here since May when we got cold Winter instead of Spring and then it jumped right into a very very hot and humid June and July.
    We have been blessed by Mother Nature though this past week with much cooler temperatures and no or very little humidity-but we have missed most of the rain and t storms. 
         ok enough weather talk 😃

  Over the past couple days I finished up little projects from my Fiber U classes. I waited a few days and then hand rinsed my dye samples, dried them, labeled them, and added to the large ring the teacher provided us with. She was the most organized teacher I have had in a long time.

Note: all photos will enlarge to full size-just click on them

Close ups of tags

That white skein was an experiment and no dye resulted 
Also the black walnut dye with the whole dried nuts would be a lovely chocolate brown if yarn is left to soak in the dye bath for a week or so

    I had made several rolags for spinning, and I was able to take home the fibers I didn't get to finish blending together during the class time.
   I was quite happy with the results-Used my drop spindle which I really enjoy using. My yarn is still on the bulky side but I still love it. However, I did have a spinning break through during my last rolag, as I handled the fiber a bit differently and was able to get a finer yarn-so am excited about that.
   These are my "art yarns" instead of beginner yarns ha ha

I wanted to share a couple photos on how you carefully pull out on the rolag and then draft the fiber out and then spin I used mostly alpaca, silks, and mint fibers. I also used a couple wools and added in a bit of sparkly fibers.

On the niddy noddy sprayed with water-then left to dry and set the twist

My favorites were the 4 rolags with the the pretty blue alpaca, silks, white mint, and white alpaca with a little sparkles We asked but the teacher did not know how they made spinning fibers from mint, milk, soy, and others The mint was very soft.

For my GIVEAWAY I want to share my band weaving project. The loom is threaded and ready to weave, printed information included, she also has a sheet of links for you tube videos This was really a nice kit with everything included to get one started-even the threaders and lease sticks.  This was my most expensive class and I got the least enjoyment from it.
   This is just not for me-I have 4 harness looms that I would rather set up and get busy weaving on-soon I hope.

  note-I didn't care for the choice of colors-they were red and white and purple and white-I don't like white all that much-even in quilting I never used just white. So I found this one green and gold-Green Bay Packer colors ha ha
  
Here are some photos: 

  Soooooo anyone with a USA mailing address is welcome for my giveaway-just mention you want to be included in comments. If there is more than one person interested I will draw early Wednesday USA time. 
I am happy to offer this as a giveaway rather then let it just set in my craft room not woven.


   Our friend Mr L gifted me with a box of canning tomatoes and sweet peppers over the weekend. Wow!! I said perfect for canned salsa making. So, I went into town this morning and picked up more sweet peppers, jalapeno and poblano peppers, onions, fresh cilantro  I will make and can this all up Tuesday morning. 
     We have lots of young hummingbirds so I am filling the feeders 3 times a day now-so I picked up 50 pounds of sugar (2  25# bags) as well.

    
 For my beverage this early evening,  I am drinking a cup of yogi tea in my favorite Yellowstone cup

   I started saving my tea bags-I made a couple atc's with them-fun now that I changed up the glue I am using. lol

and for Sweetness photos:

   I didn't get many photos this past week but we enjoyed several families of deer. Our mama deer with twins, another mama deer and very very young twins, and another mama deer with her young one.
   I put out some watermelon rind today, which they really enjoy

and if you enlarge the photos below and look closer you will find 2 little mini grey squirrels these guys make me laugh as they are so tiny. What is funny though they usually live up closer to the highway in the woods along our driveway, and the big reddish squirrels live down here. This is the first year since we have lived here they are now down in this area-someone must have told them about the free corn 😉

and in the back we have patches of "surprise" flowers-I don't remember what their name is-but they are always a surprise when they pop up.  They are a month or so early as well in blooming.

Happy T Day everyone!!
Sp glad you dropped by