Meanderings of a Mermaid

   I have not stopped crafting or moving ahead with life, but merely wanted to keep the post with the looms at the top as long as possible. But it is unlike me to not be bragging about something, so here goes. First of all, the holiday season has been here and gone. No snow again! Well it is Texas after all. Santa was spotted giving out gifts to deserving children. There have been no big changes in my life recently. The winter guild is running strong this year and I spend a lot of time preparing notes and examples and patterns for that. We meet every two weeks and in between there are two social knitting clubs I attend weekly. The kitchen is undergoing a remodel right now. I am doing it all myself and so this impacts quite a bit on how much spare time I have left over. I will post some pictures when it is done. The other day a squirrel had got into the woodstove via the chimney. I lowered a thick rope down the chimney to affect an escape route and sure enough, I think...

ALL ITEMS ARE SOLD> I am facilitating the advertising of these spinning and weaving items for a friend. I am not the seller nor do I represent the seller. If you have an interest in these items please contact me and I will connect you to the seller. Any details of the purchase are between you and the seller.  ALL ITEMS ARE SOLD> THANK YOU ****************************************************************************** 1. Oxaback Combination Drawloom – single unit and pattern saver; 160 cm Oxaback  with bench 2 back beams 20 ground shafts Two battens - one with fly shuttle and one without Combination draw with pattern storage system 50 pattern shafts and single unit and pattern storage There are also several temples to send with the loom. Stainless steel reeds - quantity 12 I feel it only right to include the Oxaback  4 meter warping mill and the Oxaback trapeze.  These two items are essential in prep...

  A year ago I had a table set up at an artists' fair and a lady noticed some bright Turkish stockings I was knitting up. She loved the colours and the wool and asked if I would make her a Christmas stocking with the same yarns. She also wanted the designs to be Andean type motifs. I agreed to take on the job.  I really enjoyed designing and making this. I have books with traditional motifs in them. That is were I drew from, for the majority of the motifs. I charted it all out on one large sheet of graph paper. the knitting up was done at camp and the sewing and finishing was down south. Now I just hope the lady remembers to call me up. I asked her for her contact info and instead she took my card and said she would call me. We had agreed to a price, so that part was fine. Well if she does not appear in 2015..... anyone want to buy a unique Christmas stocking??

 Here is the first thing I made with the flour I ground myself. It is the Italian Bread recipe that I make the most often. Really it is the leftover dough from a pizza dough that I love to make. It turned out delicious. It was a very successful test of the new mill and the new grain.  And the first pizza from the same dough as above. The crust was more flavourful than I am used to and have more of a crispiness which I love too.  Here is the brute that did all the work. I received it in a swap from a friend who wanted my alto saxophone. This is very easy to use. My first whole grain experiment is with hard white wheat. I will probably use it most of the time for that. I set the coarseness to about one sixth of the way from the fine end of things. And yesterday I made some tortillas with the same hard white wheat. They eventually went into the making of chicken enchiladas. I also made a chunky guacamole for topping. I am sure going to have fun with the...