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Placemats; Finally, We Have Placemats

5/25/2013

 
Last June I finished my first set of Rep Weave placemats and started the "current set". 

In March of this year, I finished the war with the warp.

Along the way I had many diversions and side projects and going a away dinner for Yuko who has returned to Japan. 

But today I wove not one but TWO placemats. It took 5 hours as Randee and I spent quite a time chatting as we had not seen each other in over a month. 

This is the emoji that Elisa of Scotland would use: \0/

This picture shows the ending of one placemat, the spacer and where I am about to start the second. 

Yes, I know, I have been working on these for almost a year but I have learned so much about Rep Weave and what NOT TO DO.

Each placemat in it's unfinished state is about 22 inches long. There is about 2-4 inches in-between each placemat. So if all goes well I should be able to get 12+ placemats made. I hope to do 2 sets of 4 and 2 sets of 2 but these last 4 will be similar in pattern so if someone wants 4 they can get a good matched set.

And where can you get them?? They will be for sale at the Vista Fiber Fiesta which will the weekend of October 12 & 13, 2013. If you want them you had better show up early because last year my other placemats sold in the first few hours. 
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The Arrival of Sprummerall

5/14/2013

 
Ah, it is that time of the year when Sprummerall has arrived.

What - you don't know what Sprummerall is??

Why it is that time of year, in Southern California when it can be very Spring like one day (cool and around 70F) and the next it will be high Summer and very hot (100+F) and then cool off so much it is like Fall (temperatures in the mid-60's F).

Add these three seasons together: SPRing - sUMMER - fALL and viola, you have SPRUMMERALL.


Now, if it would only Snow ;=)

Slaying the Coding Beast

5/1/2013

 
Today I slew the 4 headed hydra beast known as a custom user control.
I call it a 4 headed beast because I had 4 major hurdles
1 - Code the UI. A custom user control is all code, there is NO WYSIWYG to set it all up.
2 - Code a templated control. The base control was a form view with a read only and edit mode with lots of text boxes and labels AND it had to be bound to a
3- Wire up all the events and make sure I could switch from edit to read only mode plus the actual updating of the data back to the database.
4- Test, Test, Test.

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    Laurie lives in central Texas with Erich, a.k.a. "the shop elf", her hubby of 35+ years and Cowboy Boots, the cat; her metals studio including 100+ hammers and 300+ chasing tools; her sewing studio which has a sewing machine, a closet filled with fabric, hundreds of skeins of embroidery floss and perle cotton, silk and other materials, and Mrs. King the dress dummy; two weaving looms, assorted knitting needles, tubs of yarn; lots of books; plus a plethora of geeky tech gadgets, computers, and more.

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