Hit or Miss

Let's start with all the good "hits". The LeClerc warping mill arrived Friday.



 Due to its size the USPS will be adding a zip code up here in the Greensprings. Seriously, this is one big badass warping mill and it works BEAUTIFULLY.



 Where I hated the smallness and funky range of the Harrisville mill, this one is big and roomy and sturdy allowing for free wheeling arm movement and large enough that I can use it for shorter warps accessing only that sweet spot where you are neither reaching up nor stooping. It has a name. Master Kilvin and those that have read the Kingkiller Chronicles will be familiar with character.

Master Kilvin has earned his own special embellishment

Mongo has his new warp beam apron installed and the friction brake. Seems to work well but Gene said he would adjust if needed once I got a warp on and was using it in real life.



And of course, the 16 yard blanket warp is now in process. I'll be doing a canvas weave on 4 shafts, 48" wide in 4/2 natural cotton with a sett of 12 epi. Since these will be seamed blankets I'll balance the pattern on one side. I need to learn to crochet since I might want to do a fancy edging.

I'm finishing up Buttercups placemat warp and thinking about log cabin rugs.

A win was a long sleeve version of the Style Arc Teddy tunic.



It's getting hot for this now but I sure love the fabric/pattern combo.



 Just what I had in mind. A couple more sleeveless Rose blouses have been cut, another Style Arc pattern, a long sleeved button down boyfriend shirt in classic white and this Jalie scrub pattern that I'm doing a test run through for my favorite vet clinic peeps.



I waited over a month for these pretty fabrics to come from India.





 The prices were decent and they are certainly different from the usual stuff I can procure easily. The blue with roses was one of the fabrics I grabbed for the sleeveless blouses.

Now for the miss. I had high hopes for the Style Arc Jodie dress. The details were cute, it had a real late 60's early 70's vibe and I could see this as a jumper with tights and boots come fall. Alas what I ended up with was a zippered tube.



 The top is too large, the bottom too narrow.



If I had my late 60's/early 70's body this might work, but not so much now..... I had a good laugh though and other than the zipper (which has been in stash for at least 4 years...), this was leftover fabric from something else. I still like many of the details, so it is easy enough to raise the armholes, take a bit of ease out of the top portion and grade out for hips on the lower portion. I'm going to give it another shot as a shorter tunic and see if that works out for me. If the Style Arc Boyfriend shirt is a fail, I'm probably going to hold off buying anymore from them.

We have some new residents around Runamuck. For the first time we hear and have seen Mourning Doves. I've never seen them up this high but surprise, this year we have a pair! I have also spied (a number of times this early summer), a Common Nightjar. I catch his eyes in my headlamp, usually on the ground. They are HUGE orange red eyes. If I get too close it will take off. It likes the cleared areas in the paddock. Maybe pirating seed chafe and such from the hay? Or maybe it just likes hanging with the horses!

We have a skunk too that is jostling with the Grey Foxes and Raccoons for fallen sunflower seed.
Him I see as a moving black tail in the tail grass. I got a little close the first night I spied his movement, trying to see what it was. When I realized what I was looking at I gave Pepe all the space he wanted. ;-)

Sending you onto the holiday week with a little Beatles. Have a safe and fun 4th of July. Myself I'm going to reflect on what a flipping mess the Orange Asshat has made of this country in under two years and how it can be fixed. I hope it can be fixed.......I pray it can be fixed and maybe, just maybe improved upon.

Parting shot: Practicing for those hot summer days.