It's hard to get good images in the middle of the day - at least for
those like me whose photo-taking qualities are lacking. This is a hibiscus - the flowers last only one day. Beauty is fleeting! I do enjoy some of the knitting blogs I read that have such beautiful photos of landscape and flowers, in particular - Smatterings - her pictures are wonderful.

This is a new rug - note the yellow rug is off the loom! - can't show any pictures until I finish the fringe etc. There are some issues with the rug due in part from being on the loom for so long.

This rug is an attempt to do something that weaves quicker and yet is still fun to weave and hopefully pleasing to eye. I decided to weave in plain weave and have subtle color gradations. The colors really are nicer than the picture shows and once again, I find myself really fascinated with how colors react to each other. This rug starts out in a dark gray and blends into a lighter gray and then I used a gray wool that had been overdyed in a green. The greens will progress into a gray purplish color. I'm using 3 strands of wool and as I change colors, I replace 1 strand with the new color and then 2 strands with the next color and then 3. However, the blending is still not as subtle as I had hoped and think the next rug I'll use 2 shuttles (1 with the current color and one with the new strands of color. I'll problably have to use 2 throughout so that the edging is uniform.

I've also taken some handspun and wound a warp for my other loom and plan on weaving a scarf in an undulating twill. I had originally planned on doing a shadow weave, but the one yarn is space dyed and as I was winding the warp, it blended in too much with the darker color yarn and I didn't think the shadow weave would work.

Blogging is not as easy as I thought. I read numerous blogs everyday and look forward to what I might see. They are inspiring. However, the actual writing and thinking about what I want to put on this blog is more difficult than I had anticipated. For example, I spent several days thinking about the next rug, but when I go to write about it, I seem to only have a short paragraph to say about it! So, all those bloggers that have been blogging for several years, my hat is off to you!