What a great wedding!

What a great wedding! The whole weekend was fun and I must admit that I was really glad to see that the chuppah fit perfectly and really worked out well. The flowers that were integrated into the chuppah frame makes the whole thing look just wonderful!

I must also admit that it was really fun to see all the kids get together. Weddings also increase the family size. So here they are all the next generation of our families. Now we are waiting for the birth of the next generation. Though we still need some of the kids to finish school and then more weddings.

It's great fun watching the family grow!

We are closing in on the wedding.

As I write this, we are getting closer to the wedding. It is scheduled for this afternoon. The preparation events are over and now we are sleeping in and waiting for things to catch up. Friday was the betrothing of the husband and wife.

Yesterday was the blending of families. It took all day and two dinners to get all the people coming from all over to meet each other, eat together and get to start to know each other.

The hot dogs and burgers was out near the site where the wedding will be today. I have to admit that for me the best thing was seeing all the kids getting together. With my sisters two boys, with my two boys, and with my brothers four girls, it is great for them to all get together again. They have not had a chance to all sit together for almost 10 years. They have been together in groups, but not all together for a long time. I have not been able to get pictures of the whole group yet. Tomorrow after the wedding there will have to be a picture of all the cousins and their wives. The numbers are growing. Right now, we are relaxing, sleeping late and getting ready for the wedding this afternoon.

Last night we were at a museum. It was a great place for everyone to get together and as usual, there was some fiber material available there. There was one thing there that I took a picture of, was this tallis. It was made of cotton and the pattern is simple but pretty. I was surprised that it was put into the museum there.

The work is good, and I like the patterns on the corners. As usual, no matter where I am, or where I am, I can always find interesting fiber work.

Now it is time to go get breakfast! I am also getting eager to see the chuppah. If I get good pictures, I will update the blog tomorrow.

The Bags are done!

Today I finished my blue jeans bags. I took a bunch of old blue jeans, cut the jeans into strips and wove the strips into new heavy cloth. I then make bags out of the heavy blue jean cloth.

Let me know if you like these. They are going to go on sale at the gallery tomorrow! I'll definitely let you know how rapidly they sell.

Actually, building them was a lot of fun. The weaving went pretty rapidly, and putting them together was also a lot of fun.

I hope they go to someone that wants to wear them with jeans!

What a great visit to the dying place!

Yesterday I went with the Designing Weavers group to the Newtons Yarn in Aneheim, California.

It is really

cool to see the huge

equipment to produce large volumes of material. This first picture is of the spinning and joining thread machine. This device brings in spools of single rayon, wool, and synthetic silver and blends it all together. Then once this collection is spun together, it goes in either a collection dyer or into a blended dyer.

This second picture is of the dyer for multiple color dying. In this device the long spools of material can be lowered into the dyer one color at a time. Then the whole spools go into a high speed spinner where the dye is cleaned out of the threads. After that process, the thread goes into a dryer to be stored for sale.

This last picture is of a collection of different material that has been dyed and dryed. The collection of beautiful colors was really nice to see.

It is really nice to see the whole process. I have to admit that after seeing all the work done there, I had no problem with going back to the sales area and buying up quite a collection of material to use.

I'll try to identify work that I made things using Newtons material.

Hear go the jeans!

I have been saving my blue jeans and waiting for an opportunity to try doing something with them. Here I am! As you can see, I have been cutting the jeans into strips of big threads. I am planning to turn all these strips of thread into something interesting.

Here they are, four blue jeans stripped into nice threads that can be used to develop cloth that I can use to produce some clothing items. Right now, I am a little uncertain about how the cloth will look and how it will work when I start sewing it together into a jacket or skirt.

Well, I started weaving. The material is producing an interesting material. I can't wait to see how much I can produce! At least I have started weaving. It is interesting to see how it comes out.

I will keep you in touch now that I am weaving. As I make more of this material I'll take a few more pictures.