the peaceful peacock

merry christmas to me

Posted on 11 November 2009

My mama came to visit a cou­ple of weeks ago, and in her true gen­er­ous nature she brought along a few incred­i­ble hand-me-downs:

a drum carder, which makes pro­cess­ing wool a breeze.

What used to take me two hours (includ­ing tod­dler chas­ing time) now takes about twenty min­utes.  And don’t worry–it’s all still done by hand.  It’s just much more efficient.

She also passed down her fancy pants table loom, which is just right for bust­ing out some wicked belts, scarves, and bags.

Need­less to say, I’m stoked.

There’s some­thing about hav­ing these tools that makes me feel like I’ve arrived.  A sense of pur­pose and power as a fiber artist res­onates within my bones in a way that wasn’t there before.

Appar­ently I’m not the only one who thinks so because while she was here, I had the incred­i­ble for­tune of find­ing the newest addi­tion to my tiny fiber fac­tory for one hun­dred dol­lars:

Smil­ing in a know­ing way, my mama looked at me and said “Merry Christ­mas” as we bun­dled up the baby and hur­ried off down the road to meet my new floor loom.

Thanks, Mom.

3 responses to merry christmas to me

jessica says:

November 26, 2009 at 11:15 am

omgood­ness! you are sooo lucky! Have fun!!!

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MaryAnn Cleary says:

November 12, 2009 at 12:03 pm

you have inspired me to get my floor loom warped and mov­ing again

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Brenna says:

November 11, 2009 at 11:42 pm

ooo julie i am SO stoked for you.

by the way, in ref­er­ence to “arriv­ing”, you have been here all along my dear. :-*

bring on the weaving!

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