It is snowing in Southern Arizona! It won’t stay long, I had to run out early to get these pictures. This is our neighbor’s front yard.
Here’s Frosty, the snow car.
The “pile of snow” is in our back yard.
We didn’t decorate much this year. But I did find some snowmen to hang on the front door. And a reindeer made the milk can rather festive. I will probably get some remarks from my sister, Terry. She puts out over 65 Christmas blow molds at her house.
Here’s wishing the merriest, joyful and peaceful holiday season!
See ya,
Sandy O’
This one is all my hand spun yarn, mostly alpaca, with a couple of wool and wool blends. I didn’t follow any particular pattern, just played with the textures and colors. It is hard to pick my favorite, but I am partial to the browns.
My next one is woven with my hand spun baby alpaca from Black Watch Alpacas in Kentucky. I wanted to highlight the softness of the yarn, so I used a simple weaving pattern at each end and plain weave in the body.
By the way, I devised a way to hold the end of the shawl while twisting the fringes. I used two pick up sticks and two Sears clamps to clamp the shawl to the cross bar on the loom. 
After all that white, it was time for some color. This was leftover yarn from several knitting and weaving projects.
Not all weaving was done on the rigid heddle loom. I finished some mug rugs on the Hokett loom.
These are coasters woven on an old Rug Weave-it loom from the 1930’s, a gift from the Head Yarn Babe, Nancy. I glued them to cork backings. They make neat gifts.
Whew!
And I am super proud to say he has grown into a fine young man!
See ya!
Terry has packed a lot of living in her (?) years. She and Bill have raised two children who have become wonderful adults. She and Kay ran an ice cream booth for 23 years that traveled all over Kentucky.
She organized the local Farmers Market and has been a strong presence in the Kentucky Proud marketing program. She is a great gardener, super good cook and all around wonderful friend.
But I guess her greatest achievement has been putting up with her sisters. We do have fun!
Happy Birthday, Terry!
And yesterday, we did this….
We spent the day in Bisbee, AZ, checking out the antique shops and visiting our friend, Ken Wallace, owner of the 
And now… Happy Birthday!
And my latest weaving now…
It is a cowl that has the ends woven together. I can see it becoming an addiction.
I finished a couple of mug rugs on the small Hokett loom. They make the best gifts. Actually the large mug rug on the right is off my Schacht tapestry loom. I was trying out some Navajo Churro yarn bought at our local farmers market. 
I normally knit my hand spun baby alpaca yarn but decided to weave some of it into a scarf. I used my Schacht Flip rigid heddle loom and tried the Brooks Bouquet weaving pattern. I still need to block it, but I like the way it looks.
My latest lesson in weaving was the mobius scarf. You leave about 20 inches of warp at the beginning, weave the body of the scarf and then unwind the woven part, take the 20 inches from the beginning off the front beam and weave it into the last part of the scarf. In weavers terms, the warp becomes the weft. It sounds complicated, but you can find several YouTube videos that show the procedure. Here’s mine. I used varigated yarn for the experimental piece. I need to take my time on the last part of the weave, but I can see lots of yarn and color possibilities.
The little Hokett loom has had some action, the mug rug is almost finished. 
My knitting project is a triangle scarf with hand dyed alpaca yarn. This is my go-to pattern when I can’t decide what to knit next. ( I don’t normally match my project bag with my yarn, but it does look good together.)
