Nature's Fury

It's hard to see from this photo, but the cloud in the background is a 1000 acre fire near Sedona. It looks like an atomic bomb - I was just thinking this morning that we really haven't had any major fires nearby and on the way into town this afternoon from the top of windy hill, it was a massive plume of smoke. They've evacuated 100 homes - Sedona is full of multi-million dollar homes - hopefully it will blow away from town and away from homes.

We're at least 45 miles south of Sedona, but it's still impressive.

On a more fiberly note, I've mostly been spinning and actually making progress on the rug I've been weaving for ever. This is 525 yards of romney single ply with kid mohair blended in dark tangerine and a dark grey/teal - a nice yarn if I do say so myself - I'm thinking of knitting a shawl with it.

I can tell when I weave a rug and it's the downhill stretch because as I weave, my mind gets caught up with what the next rug will be. I've been thinking of using some of my churro handspun yarn and making a simple striped rug with possibly some twill worked in somehow. I think I have enough warp on the loom to do another rug. Another idea I've had is to use the same colors has the current rug but use mostly stripes with very little tapestry work in it.

Well, say a prayer for the folks in Sedona - and I'll be back hopefully a little more often than I have with some news, like finishing the rug