In this holding place where I have been living a short while, there has been left behind this little grouping of hearts in a line.    It makes me think about … (how could it not?) … what I love.

And what I already miss of my own. 

There are things which are not objects that I love, obviously . . .

I love, love, love knitting …

And I love designing knitwear & writing patterns …

and stitching & spinning  …

But I have come to see that I most definitely love right now, color blending of fiber !   Enough feeling sorry for myself while not having the things I love, it is time for me to focus on doing the things I love.    Some good people have given me for my own, a spinning wheel & loads of fiber.

I have at loan until I can make my previous jumbo blending board to specs again, an Ashford blending board which is doing the trick for my setting everything into motion.  I have bought some colors, and am presently in a learning curve, how to do it on different equipment and a different creative space  …  and I’ve already gotten knee-deep into a new unpredictable tweedy blend to spin on my new wheel.

But I have decided that presently what I enjoy most of all is color blending with fiber, especially unpredictable color blends . . .

Everywhere people are giving, at the yarn store I was given a donated knitted vest, as well as bags full of yarns, all from a back room filled with donations for the hundreds of displaced people who lost their homes in the wildfire. So, having been given a Noro silky tweed knitted vest, I decided to unravel it for the yarn, which I think is quite beautiful as a fluffy neckwear piece on Abelene #2 ( I was lucky to find another just like Abelene#1 ) … who is modelling in front of the antique dresser & mirror given to us by a friend of a relative, the mirror which I am photographing many of my tweed chronicles experiments! 

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Tweed News: I am totally and completely immersed in my tweed blending and spinning. Being my own micro mill is pretty much what excites me these days, and I feel I am making headway on my personal palette. More to come, very soon to post my next forthcoming, after it gets spun up.  But for now, I leave you with yet another Tweed Film I have found, as these old films so inspire me!