working with homespun

July 25 2017

We are enjoying another sunny day.  It was cold outside last night but the house quickly warmed to 24C once the sun rose.   For the last two days I have been working in my indoor garden and actually got hot.   Piece by piece I have been cleaning the floors and then wheeling the plants onto the bit I have done.  The trick is to arrange the pots to look as if they are in a tropical garden.  Now I have reached the last section and here the problems are harder to deal with because this area contains plants that are too large and too floppy.

Between gardening efforts I am weaving and spinning. The new loom copes with homespun wool really well and I have used up all the balls I had left over from knitting projects.  I am now at the stage that I am having to spin more wool to keep going.  Luckily we got good quality fleece from out last shearing so I have plenty of wool to work with.  I am weaving squares of cloth to be made up into cushion covers as I experiment with the loom.  So far I have made squares, checks, stripes and plain, squares.  Weaving itself is much faster than weaving and knitting.

Last weekend we went on a visit to see Wayne, Danni and Ella.  She has just had her second birthday and is cuter than ever.  Danni cooked us a lovely lunch and Ella played with the dolls cot we gave her.  I had sewn and knitted bedclothes for her and she even managed to a squeeze into bed with her doll at one stage.  I am totally amazed at how well behaved she is but I always knew that Wayne would be a great dad.