Photo #1 Fold at the top of the photo

I got to thinking that maybe it would be interesting to add a bit of color. Could be good, could be really wrong. Ultimately I wanted my veil to have a bit of personality without being a personality all its own. So for a whopping $11, I came home with two yards each of three colors of 108" wide tulle plus matching thread.

My handwoven jacket

This past summer, I was lucky enough to attend Convergence, a biennial conference for fiber artists, sponsored by the Handweavers Guild of America (HGA).  This is the event where I went gaga at the Habu booth. Haaaaabuuuuuuu...... Ahem. Anyhow, I spent a bit of time peeking through the garment samples at The Sewing Workshop booth. Sometimes it's a stretch for me to look at a two-dimensional rendering of a garment and envision what it might look like on me after I have invested both time and money in materials and sewing hours. Here I got to try things on before buying the corresponding pattern.

Handmade notebooks from a fellow guild member

 I have mentioned it before, and I am going to say it again today. I love my guild. Every month I look forward to gathering with this group of talented, interesting and genuinely wonderful group of weavers (and spinners, and knitters, and sewers, and more), and last week was no exception. We were given a wonderfully detailed presentation about the bags one member weaves, sews and sells. We were also presented with beautiful notebooks, created and bound by another member. I plan to take mine to NEWS as an idea sketchbook.
 
And what is NEWS?

With a grandbaby on the the way and not wanting to be out of town, Jane asked if I would help (wo)man the Schacht booth at TNNA. This meant that I would be reunited with my fabulous pal Stephanie and get to scope out the latest and greatest in yarn. Um, yes please.
 
So off I went to Columbus, Ohio. Cool town from what little I have seen the two times I have been there. We were so busy, we barely had time to walk the show floor. My very favorite discovery was the Artemis/Hanah Silk booth. They hand dye silk ribbon in the most amazing colors and color combinations you can imagine. Plus, the gal who does the dyeing was there, and she was a real sweetheart. Ivy Brambles had some beautifully dyed yarns, and they are a stone's throw away in New Hampshire. I like local. My love of The Fibre Company yarns was also reaffirmed. Art Yarns has an achingly soft cashmere yarn. They source it from Italy and dye it themselves, and I wanted to take one of every color home.