Kid Kamp

our second annual Kid Kamp was held last week at my house and my talented sisters and I found enough things to do each and every day to fill their time.......we are so glad it was last week instead of the upcoming one with predicted temps of over a hundred...whew!....kids were great and we had fun too....we began each day with a reading by Amy and ended each day with the kids putting entries in their journals created by Gail...in between we planted hens and chicks, made a necklace, had a treasure hunt, created headbands, dug in the dirt, ran thru the sprinklers and ate.......loved it!!!

Garlic harvest

Grandsons helped grandpa harvest the garlic, but first they had to check the raspberries. They are not quite ripe, so on to the digging.

Things are growing

It has finally gotten warm here in our valley...too warm for me....but that heat is what makes things grow  too.....my little 44x47 inch box gave me three big bunches of radishes and now I have replanted those two rows with beets and carrots....the kohlrabi is about to begin to form heads and carrots are growing...nice little bush cucumbers in two corners.........

Color Number 2

This is the same warp with a new color, wine.

Warped

I put a new warp on from "Weaving Designs by Bertha Gray Hayes," page 109, called pinwheels. I think the picture looks like buttons instead. Right now it really doesn't look like anything, hopefully when it is off the loom it will look like the picture in the book, Amy

Iris

When I was young there were a lot of flowers that I didn't care for....geraniums, poinsettas and iris to name three.....I still don't like poinsettas much....but as an old lady I find beauty in most growing things.....and by now I have quite a lot of iris and they are beautiful this year.  I posted a couple earlier and now another has bloomed out......the bad part about these iris is that I can't name them...I mean, the variety....are they bearded? Japanese? what?.....my favorite is the one in this photo...they have tall, thin stems and small, beautiful blooms....we have many in our demo garden and I have only three....but they sure are beautiful.  This year I am attending one of our summer classes where I will learn exactly what kind of iris I have.

Tools

Tools, I have a lot of them. I think anyone who works with any fiber has many. No I don't want to talk about my looms. And yes I have several looms. Today it was my sewing machine. I have a Bernina 1530, which I have had for many years. It is not my only sewing machine but it is my to go to one for everyday sewing. I have been having trouble with it for months but today was the last straw and I finally took it to the sewing machine doctor. On the front of the 1530 model is a tracking ball, a stitch selector. It is what I use to change any stitch, move the needle over, lengthen stitches or shorten them. But that ball has been harder and harder to move until today I could only do straight stitch. Since I was sewing a pillow, I really only needed a straight stitch so I thought I could do it but I needed to use the zipper foot and I could not move the needle over. So to the shop it went. I told the lady in the shop after this one is fix I would bring in the Baby Lock machine, another tool not working, don't ask. And yes we got another tool, it just never ends.
Amy