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Nov. 1, 2013 Overtired

 

We are on the way to the temple in Toronto this morning. We are going to endure these gale force winds. I do hope there is not a disaster to have to go around on the 401, some truck blown over or trees on the road. I pray we won't be hit with any flying debris.

 

Willem is driving today. I've been very tired. I will see if I can recall why. We left Mary's on Saturday morning and I drove to Kingston for district conference. We drove home and I loaded the kiln and went to bed at 11pm and got up through the night a few times to deal with the bisque firing.

 

I stayed up at 5. We drove back to district conference on Sunday and home in the afternoon.

 

On Monday I emptied and glazed and fired the kiln again overnight. No, that's the night I fired it overnight and turned it off in the morning. On Tuesday I unloaded the kiln and threw 18 plates, or trimmed them. On Thursday was my busy day at Mera teaching cedar basketry.

 

I think it was 1 am when I closed my eyes. I didn't let myself get up till 9 this morning. That was a good thing. There were gale force winds which blew the table over the porch railing. It didn't' break it though.

 

I went to check on everything down at the pond. I think my green table is missing. The alder boughs that were lying on the lumber had blown over into the side of the pond. The clothwalk was fine. I'm glad to see that.

 

I love weaving. I enjoy our weaving meeting on Thursday mornings at 10. Kelly is threading the heddles and slaying the reed for the tea towels we are going to make. Lise is aware that we'd all like to be doing things, so she is going to teach us how to use the rigid heddle loom. I know nothing about how to use one. This will be a good experience for me.

 

I think we should organize ourselves and become a guild, the Mera Weavers Guild.

 

I borrowed a spinning wheel so I can work on the fiber I have washed. I'd like to spin it very thick and make a nice wool rug out of it. I wonder if I could make a double weave rug. I wonder if I could make a double weave on the warp that is already on my grandmother's loom. That would be very interesting. I imagine it would have to be all tabby. I'm not sure how it works though.

 

I have some broken or very loose warp threads on there now, though. I am going to try using a shuttle for my weaving, but I'm not sure I like the idea of winding the shuttles. I think it will take a lot of time to do that, actually.

 

I brought a few of them along with me in the car so I can wind them while Willem drives.