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Karen's Craft Odyssey

Karen's Craft Odyssey

Spinning, Weaving and Knitting (and whatever else I want to play with)

Archive for August, 2007

Tue
28
Aug '07

Is it Tuesday already?

I’ve been meaning to post about our trip to the Jondaryan Heritage Festival on Saturday, but work has been really hectic. So, here goes…
[thumb:531:l]The best part of the festival is always the woolshed (of course). This year Tony was displaying a harvest of felted fruits, vegetables and grains. Frank and I also [...]

Wed
22
Aug '07

Trying Again

I’m writing this post on my PDA. I wrote a post on the PDA on Sunday
night. You might wonder what happened to that post. Clearly it never made it to the blog. Well, I wondered that too.
I can’t write posts directly on the PDA – the mobile version of Internet
Explorer can’t quite handle Wordpress. So [...]

Tue
14
Aug '07

Off to the Ekka again

Yep. Tomorrow I spend a second day demonstrating at the Ekka. Monday I was pretty productive. I finished a scarf [thumb:526:i]and wove a few Weave-it squares.[thumb:525:i]
[thumb:524:r]I’ve warped up a different type of project for tomorrow — I think I have enough scarves. So this time I’m making a simple shoulder bag.

Sun
12
Aug '07

More Weaving

[thumb:523:l][thumb:522:l][thumb:521:l]Finally finished this year’s Ekka Scarves. Took them off the loom this evening. Of course, that’s not all I’ve been up to. I had a cold during the week. It’s finally leaving, but I spent a couple of days resting in bed. Not much on the craft front.
But… I have [...]