One color I really liked was the glittering orange silk (c) but that's a stiff thread and the resultant cloth cancels out the softness of the cashmere-mix warp, so I have a different plan for this thread.
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In brighter sun or under florescent lights, the R+O half is wonderfully saturated and yummy while the R+P half looks slightly faded, but in the evenings or when cloudy, the R+P half is ever so nuanced and rich and interesting while the R+O side looks too straight-forward. I hope my weft choices will look interesting all around, but they also feel like the two least bad ones.
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It rained a little yesterday. Though other Nelsonians may tell you we have had rain over the last several weeks, they lasted between 10 seconds and 20 minutes, followed by hours and days of strong wind, so we needed prolonged and not-torrential rain for the soil. This morning we have had mist descending, in between bright sun, Unfortunately, in other parts of the country, we had floods! Watching the recap of 2013 in the news last night, I learned New Zealand had at least as dramatic and extreme weather as Japan this year. As I know many of you did. Nelson appeared twice in the short footage.
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Sister just texted me to say she's going to Mom's to dismantle and pack the looms. It would have been me taking pics and marking all the pieces and Ben taking them apart and packing if we were there. She's keeping as much weaving equipment and yarns as possible, and definitely all the books.
In between their busy family lives, Sister and Brother have been spectacular helping Mom prepare for her move and she's been the envy of her friends. May 10 next year would have marked our 44th anniversary at that family home, but she's moving in less than two week, four months short of the anniversary. So while everybody is feeling the rush, I'm the only one feeling a sad and sentimental about all the changes, even though I lived in that house for the shortest time, about 13 years, I didn't particularly like the train line it was on, nor, really, the house itself. I just like being home especially when the rest of the troop were all there.
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Packing up the family home - yes it's a sad time. My own family home is an ocean and a continent away, so I can keep it in my memory as it was, but my sister lives right next door, and like your siblings had the "joy" of doing the packing. Your mother is brave to face this!
Well, Margaret, it also helps that the house is old and very very cold, and mom hates the cold, so she'll be more comfortable in a 4-year-old mega-apartment and if she were to continue to live in the house, she would have to have some work done. I know it's all for the good - the apartment is easier to care for, and there's no need to worry about the yard and there aren't so many doors and windows to lock up when she want to go out. I know it's all for the good. I just wished there were some room for sentimentality, but maybe there is. Everybody except my husband and I are getting together on the last Sunday mom is there, so that should be a lovely occasion, and since my nephews are so busy now, it's a big ask and so a big occasion.
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