First Fruit of the Loom...

My first weaving off the loom, the ends sewn in neatly and a rough fringing fashioned... its a kind of sampler, using several different colours and 6 different simple weaving patterns used fairly randomly - in fact so randomly I'm not sure which is which - a lesson learned in future I need to write everything down so I can record which are the bits I like best so I can do them again!!!

All in all I am quite thrilled about how this has turned out, the edges leave a bit to be desired but neatness will come with practice... I spent most of the lesson tis week preparing a warp for my next project. this is a completely new experience for me and we started by working out the size of the potentially finished piece of cloth and then having picked some vibrant blue and green yarn I wound a two metre warp onto a wooden frame..

Of course I was so excited I forgot to photograph the actual process and now have a tidy hank of yarn ready to go on the loom next week. I'll haveto wave like crazy onceits on as I only have a few weeks left of the course and I intend to weave a cushion cover size piece of fabric... watch this space!

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Scotland part 2

The second half of the week continued in much the same vein. We had one rainy afternoon which was actually quite nice to be holed up in the house with the rain lashing the windows. It probably wasn't quite so nice for the two visitors that came on their bikes but they're tough cookies - and its only water- but I did feel sorry for them having to cycle six miles back down the track in the wind and rain, but given Scotland, it wasn't as bad as it could be.

Funchal

So after three days at sea we finally hit Funchal in Madeira. An escape from the ship, and I have to say it was very pleasant indeed. First of all the weather is really splendid. Especially when you know that everybody else in the UK is suffering grim storms and vile winds.. Over here it is between 22 and 25 degrees is really quite warm. Funchal is a pretty city. It's built on a hill it with lots of lovely white houses with stunning red roofs. In order to get the best of it we walked along the sea front until we got to the cable car and we took it up the hill. It was a really good ride much longer than we imagined and it's quite weird because it goes right through the town - completely over everybody's house... So not only do you get a lovely vista of the bay but you can view the beautiful rooftops and get to look in everybody's gardens and to look at their picnic sets.. clean washing nice plants... scratty backyards.... We got off th

ROCKS - in which I share the Hopetoun and Esperance pictures....

I'm about to post a load of pictures of rocks... look away if you are not interested...There are more but its faffy making them smaller to upload so I'm doing it a bit at a time... Enjoy mount Barren rocks on summit Mount Barren Views... Cave Point - unreachable cave Small reachable Cave scree to unreachable cave Frenchmans Peak Cave Frenchmans peak View Frenchmans Peak Summit Esperance Headland Boulders Esperance Headland with fisherman for scale Eperance other headland cave Esperance other headland...

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