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Random pre-wedding insanity.

So after about a year and a half of planning, Josephine is getting married to Norm this Saturday. We are all heavily involved in some way — from Michelle, DH and I who are in the wedding party to Jen who is pretty much single-handedly taking care of all the decorations and day-of activities. Oh, the cake tasting meetings… the invitation making parties… the ribbon tieing parties… Crazy times. It also doesn’t help that I have major deadlines for the end of July, but when it rains, it pours, eh? Here are fibre-y photos today because next week will likely be wedding photos.

This one is for Betsy who won my little contest last week! She asked for something in darker colours, maybe blues… so here is the new colourway, “Stillwater”.

More new colours…

Heh heh. This yarn makes me laugh. We had dinner at Blue Water Caf?¬© last weekend and they had a “Kill Bill” vodka martini on the cocktail list. Jo and Norm are using a song from the Kill Bill soundtrack for their wedding reception entrance music. It seemed fitting that I dye something inspired by the same. These four skeins will go in the package to the Make One Yarn Studio in Calgary this week.

When Jo’s wedding is over, this is what we have to look forward to…

We lucked into three gently used looms plus an Indian Head spinner and a whole bunch of other weaving and spinning accessories and books. Serious luck. Michelle has a lovely 24″ 4-shaft table loom tucked away at her house. Jen is getting the 36″ 4-shaft Nilus Leclerc loom on the right and Jo is getting the 35″ 4-shaft Leclerc on the left.

Jo’s loom is interesting… It’s called the “Initiation Loom” and is a four-shaft direct tie-up loom with four treadles. So basically, if you want to treadle shafts 1 and 3, you’ll have to use both feet. If you want to raise three shafts, you’ll need to put one foot on more than one treadle. So really, any combination is available and you don’t need to worry about tie-ups.

But whoohoo, the girls will hopefully be taking weaving with me in the fall at Place des Arts! Ok, now back to those deadlines, packing yarn, and generally running around in circles.

*Silly Cameraphone, Silly Me: Thanks for your funny cameraphone stories. Happily, my phone dried out and I realized that it wasn’t turning on because I had the battery in upside-down. Heh. The screen on the outside of the phone barely works now, but the inside screen is just fine. It’s how I managed to get that photo of the looms off the camera. Yay.

Lovely and amazing.

I have been secretly in love with Rachael since she knit Alice Starmore’s Cromarty in custom-dyed Koigu Kersti. She is not so secretly in love with Lala. And last night, I had the absolute pleasure of meeting them both after their wedding here in Vancouver. A lovely and amazing couple.

Also at the Sylvia Hotel reception last night were Mandy (Yarnageddon) and Janice (Rabbitch) who were the witnesses at the ceremony, Zak (Mandy’s DH), Rachael (photographer), Siew and Heather. All lovely and amazing people.

Of course, I was too shy to bring my camera, so you can go see Rabbitch’s photos here… or Rachael’s photos here…

Oh, and in case I accidentally gave anybody the impression that I spun up all the silk for the Flower Basket Shawl in one day (!)… this is the entirety of what I spun:

It’s a teeny tiny amount, but just enough to knit up a sample!

New Sister

On Saturday, we attended my brother-in-law’s wedding… This wedding started early — 5:30 am for some of the girls — mostly because the girls had to be ready by 9 am for the “door games” where the guys in the wedding party have to negotiate with the bridesmaids for the bride. The bribe? Some money, cake, tea, and a whole roast pig. Once the bridesmaids allow the groom to enter the house, there’s a tea ceremony for the bride’s family — the bride and groom serve tea to the elders in exchange for gifts…