Saturday, December 1, 2007

Christmas gets an early start

The stripes keep on coming! I think this technique will work well if I can figure out how to dye. I'm excited!
Today was the Weaver's Guild Christmas party. We had a great crowd and a LOT of goodies to eat. I made springerles like last year. It's almost a tradition because I've got the greatest cookie mold with a lady spinning on it. I saved half the batch to take with me next week to the Friendship Spinner's Christmas retreat at Shakertown.
I've made some more progress on the treasure chest (steamer trunk). The cedar panels are installed in the bottom and I bought some pretty reproduction cotton cloth to line it with. I don't think I'll use it, but I also found some cloth that actually has bees on it that are kind of similar to the pattern on the paper originally lining the trunk. Putting the lining in is the last job and then the trunk can take up residence in "Wool & Bull" and I can fill it with stash.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

That is *such* an awesome cookie mold!! I'm going to try to get to Shakertown on Saturday. Can't stay the night, but I might stay for dinner on Saturday.