I Haven't Been Idle

These table runners and doilies were projects I worked on back home but only just finished the fringe here in Florida.  It took me a while because I was very sick with pneumonia shortly after arriving in Florida but I'm improving every day and getting back to my much loved hobby of Swedish weaving.

The white table runner with design done in blue is my own pattern.  I could never be disciplined enough to just sit down and design a pattern on paper before using it so my method is to just start weaving and make up the pattern as I go.  I often start with an existing pattern and recreate it, too.

The doilies were just scraps of monk's cloth that I couldn't bring myself to just throw away.

I'm not teaching Swedish weaving this year at my Florida park because my stamina is pitiful.  A few new ladies have already approached me wanting to learn so I will accept a couple of students here in the trailer...just not too many so we're crowded.

I sold my own trailer last year and am now renting a gorgeous new one but this will be my last 3 month stint in Florida...I keep getting sick and don't want to be away from home too long.  A month or two, at the most, will be my choice and they'll be spent either at my daughter's house in Tampa or her beach house on the Atlantic side.  I'm very lucky to have alternate choices like this.

Anyway, I'm back to Swedish weaving!