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Speaking of weaving . . .
Yesterday we were photographing cranberry bogs in NJ and I saw this wonderful weaver’s nest.
Abandoned Weaver’s nest.
I had a life as a weaver.
I had a life as a weaver. I was given a loom that belonged to my grandmother’s cousin. It was an older four harness, counterbalance, home made, maple loom. It was very sturdy and very heavy. I still have it—stored in my attic. I have a smaller portable Harrisville loom which I still have set up in a guest room with the wild idea that I may use it again…
I also had a 60 inch AVL Dobby loom which I have since sold.
I mainly made clothing, enjoying the mix of colors and textures. I enjoyed details and designing clothing which made use of shapes as they came off the loom. I loved trying to figure things out.
Now the computer gives me all the “figuring out” I need but I still spin yarn from time to time. It’s sort of a Zen, meditative thing—and the yarn piles up and up.
My first loom
Samples of my weaving are on Flickr.
Something’s Fishy
I maintain a design/photography studio with my husband and business partner, Bob Emmott. We are located in Center City, Philadelphia. Our web site is emmott.com.
When business gets a little slow we will give ourselves assignments. Some thing we don’t necessarily get to shoot for clients. This summer we spent time photographing on location at a commercial fishing pier in NJ. One particular day they were especially busy with boat loads of yellowfin tuna, swordfish, bluefish and croaker.
October Sunday
Yesterday was a very nice day. Beautiful fall day. Worked in the garden, nice lunch, read a little, carded some wool, dinner with music and later, a little TV. Lazy and very relaxing.
Today was also beautiful but not so relaxing—back to work. I did get to update the image at the top of the page to one of pumpkins on our side porch. (View older header images.)
Day of Service
Philadelphia University where I teach had its second annual Day of Service today. Classes were canceled and students and faculty were expected to choose from a lengthy list of projects, a worthy cause they would work on. Some were quite organized and some were less so.
I joined a group who knit hats for premature infants to wear in the hospital. We were referred to a web site which had many patterns for hats, booties and other items infants could use and we showed up with our yarn and needles and knit away.
Some of our hats.
Students, faculty and staff all joined in creating a mother load of hats to be donated to an area hospital. I worked with a smaller splinter group and the picture shows some of our results.
