Spring Weather

 

The photo isn't a very good one but it is a silk jacket I wove the fabric for (and had a friend sew it).  I wove it for the ANWG conference here in 1995.  I took the conference logo and messed around with it.  The warp was hand dyed (by moi) in a spectrum from blue-purple to pink-purple.  (It also made in appearance in Weavers Magazine.  Much nicer photo in the magazine!!!)

I think the last time I wore it was to a NEWS (?) conference.  I can't remember.

I miss going to conferences - the seminars, exhibits, sitting down to visit with other like minded folk.  Between Covid and my current health issues, I doubt I'll leave my town - unless I have another medical issue that requires me to go to Vancouver.

Today I went out without a jacket - for the first time in a long time.  It truly feels like spring and I'm enjoying the longer daylight hours.  The winter seemed very long - very dark.  We didn't have a lot of 'cold' weather, which generally means the skies are clear and the days brilliant, with sunshine bouncing off the snow.  There wasn't a lot of snow, and very few 'cold' days.  It was very dreary. 

Now the warmer weather is coming, I hear, but we are still in drought conditions and I hope that we get some more rain to help wet down the bush.

We voted on Friday, and now I'm on tenterhooks waiting to see what will happen once the votes are all counted.  April 29 we should know...

I also heard today that my new drug - the last one left to try, unless something else comes along - will be ready next week.  I have been holding on to the last thread in the rope I'm hanging on, for so long I wasn't sure if I could last until it was.  But now I know it is coming, really, truly, I can try to tie a knot into the end of my fraying rope and make it for a few more days.  (I think I can, I think I can...)

I've been warned that not everyone gets good results with it, but the only way to know if it will work for me is to try it and see.  My pain doc will check in with me in about a month or so and to see how I'm doing on it.  The main goal is to take it and not have it cause adverse effects, so I'm being a 'special snowflake'.  And my pharmacist has worked hard to find out as much as possible about it, and then worked with my family doctor, too.  If the new drug doesn't work, I will have to go back to the one I'm currently on, but try to address the adverse effects.  :(  Take another drug to make the drug work without harming?  Sigh.

However, I'm pleased enough with the current warp.  It's weaving nicely (now that the threading mistake is corrected), and I'm using up another cone in the seemingly endless stash.  I am hoping that the new drug will let me feel more energetic (less fatigue and brain fog, with luck) and that I can begin marshalling my thoughts for the next article.  I'm pleased enough with what I'm seeing on the loom that I will be using that one as one example for the article.  I may do the next warp to use for the article, as well.  Depends on how things turn out.

In the meantime, I continue to weave as much as I can.  Massage therapist asked today if I was managing at the loom okay and I said yes.  I'm about 1/3 done the warp, so I will press on and get it off and ready to be wet finished.  In the meantime I've made good progress on the current heap of hemming, and using up more of my seemingly never ending stash.  However, with the tariffs/trade 'war' I'm wondering if I should stock up on yarn because cotton could become quite expensive, depending on what happens over the next few months.  

In the meantime, it's been great to see my stash diminishing (although not my inventory of textiles!)

It's Thursday.  I'm hoping to get the new drug by Tuesday, although that might be optimistic.  Time will tell!  (About a lot of things...)