I found some boldly striped rainbow fleece material to use for dog toys! I cut the bold stripes apart to make strips, and since there were six colors, learned to do a six strand round braid. It was much nicer to buy one yard of this material than several yards of different colors! The dogs approve of the finished tug toy. I stuffed some extra strips of fleece material into their rubber toys, and they enjoy destuffing those too!
We were hanging outside in the hammocks when my youngest said that the puppy had something, and it was moving! This praying mantis was not happy to be snuffled. It looked like it was getting ready to molt, because its eyes were cloudy and the wings looked glued down. It was safely transferred to a nearby tree out of the puppy’s reach.
When your youngest likes to rearrange her room, and convinces you to let her change rooms, even though you just put up hundreds of pink and glow-in-the-dark stars, and you have to transfer the stars to the new room. In my defense, she first said the stars wouldn’t go to the new room. In her defense, her old room is above the garage and gets cold in the winter. With all that is going on health-wise, spending the winter in a more temperate room is really a no brainer. But so many stars. So many, in fact, that I think some will stay in the new office. Maybe they won’t show on the Zoom meetings.
I’ve been happily pouring over my new book “The Art of Tapestry Weaving” by Rebecca Mezoff. I’ve been following her blog for awhile and it was there I saw the upcoming release and so pre-ordered it. I had every intention of reading it cover to cover then go back to weaving. It lasted one chapter before I was too excited and had to warp my loom and try what I was reading about. But, being me, I’m not starting with a tapestry, I’m making dish clothes, because again, even an imperfect dish cloth is useful. Oh the ideas I have for weaving alpaca though!! But first cotton, and the loom I own. (Then later make my own with bits and bobs from the hardware store. She has instructions on that in the book too! Joy!)
Happy Thanksgiving! My family won’t eat butternut squash, but the chickens like it. It also hangs easily using a gimlet and kitchen twine. The twine is tied in a circle and clipped to the carabiner so the hens can’t ingest it.
Critters and Craft 