my lovely Halloween

Last Saturday it was also my birthday - and the first of a series of cookery lessons by my friend Nadia who is a chef and a great teacher and also a fellow weaver and spinner. After all the necessary explanations and cooking time we literally devoured the rice timballo and the croque monsieurs - this is always the best part of the course: when we get to eat the result of the recipes!
Also, thank you Margreet for the best birthday card ever!

spectrum

On a grey day like this I need colours - and possibly a whole lot of them!
The book below was from a great exhibition a few years ago at the Crafts Council in London.
I'm always amazed at Ann Sutton's work -

these days

I'm a distracted passenger on the Vespa with the hubby - there's a warm air and I'm taking blurry photos.

Love this necklace from Spinthread (via Field & Sea)

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I am not very happy with the proportions of my prototype - I still need to adjust it: you don't want to look like you're wearing a bag of potatoes! And the colour of the fabric is not helping either - I'd love to have it dyed like these samples by Eva over at Tinctory

It's nice to be near the loom and all the little friends that inhabit the room with it - but there's a huge mess (that I'm obviously hiding to you) and I reckon a big clean up is on its way. Auf!

enjoying...

...these last days with my friend in town - next week she'll go back to Germany...
In the meantime we've been making prototypes for a woven shawl - pics coming soon!

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Today looked like summer was still here - the sky was outrageously blue and the light so strong!
I wish I could go to Holland to see this exhibition.

it's always a work in progress

Learning to post bigger photos from here [via fine little day]
Jutta posted about a lovely book by Anu Tuominen