Mood:  not sure

Fiber activities in the last 8 days include Montana Fibercrafters meeting where we started working on a punch needle rug (or in my case a 11" mat).  I have a sunflower design, enlarged it and have it ready to transfer to the back of the monks cloth.  I've already washed and zigzagged the monk's cloth to prevent fraying.

I dyed some sumac , cutch, and cherry tree bark on various yarns and a scarf.  I also dyed a graduated yarn fin blue greens from chemical dyes to  use in my next version of Almost Lace.  It is a very pretty alpaca lace weight blend from Big Sky Quality Wool in Broadus.  I have batteries in my camera now so I can take pictures of things to post.

Then I spent 2 full days cleaning up my office and studio from the combination of studio remodel and a huge accumulation of stuff put here and there.  I can see the top of that table where I dropped off all the little things for the last 2 years.  I still have some more to put away so I bought some more see through boxes today, but this is a lot better than I've seen in that area in about 1 year at least.  It took me an amazing amount of time to deal with all those little dibs and dabs so I know why I hate that part.

I have read quite a few articles about studios and really want to try keeping my new wonderful area a little more organized.  Just "having" to clean up the one corner for the dye area had made it so much more fun to work down there.

Today Sarah Pilgrim came from Wilsall, MT, to teach the Billings Weavers Guild about designing stripes in weaving, but it also applies to knitting, dyeing self striping yarn etc.  Sarah and I are going to try a collaboration of sorts, she wants me to custom dye some yarn for an afghan she is weaving.  I'm am very excited about that because she makes beautiful things. 

And I even knit a little this week.  So a busy week (because I had to do a lot of non-fiber stuff too), but lots accomplished.  Linda