Clasped weft, and taking it to the post office

Yesterday I was feeling up to weaving, and here's a sequence showing you what this clasped weft idea means. 

I decided to use the frame loom I repaired and it's working just fine, particularly the heddle bar.  I used three colors for the warp, the tan one being some yarn I spun 

Here's the heddle inserted ready to go 

This is how clasped weft works. Two weft threads instead of one, one looped over the other

Then you draw the thread across and it pulls the other color along, to where you decide to stop

You can make all kinds of interesting shapes by simply pulling the second, clasped,  thread over. I made it more complex by using three colors so quite a few different effects happen in what's really a simple piece.

It's a lovely technique which I haven't done for a while. I may make a band using this approach, too.

I had an irruption by Gary last evening wanting me to identify a plant, was it poison ivy? We have a lot, reasonable precaution. We also have a lot of Virginia creeper which he gets confused with it. 

I came out to look, because I'd removed a couple of poison ivy runners from my yard. But his plant, also one he'd seen at a neighbor's house, were something else. 

He's definitely planning on paving me a patio out front in the summer. I think he'll be around here quite a bit.  Meanwhile he gave me his relative/tenant's cell number, and his daughter's.  I've known them both for years but never had their numbers. 

He's now ordering window treatments for s couple of dozen windows. The new house is large! I seized the opportunity to remind him to retrieve his plants when he's ready.

Happy day everyone, I think my four windows and a skylight are enough to handle right now.

Before you go, please go to Marcia's blog New Decade New Chapter New Hampshire, and see yesterday's post. It's birdsbloomsbooksetc on Blogger.

She gives all the details on how to protest the USPS proposed interference in the elections.  You can email or write, in the comment period which ends early July. So please go there, get the info, and do that. 

Great resistance, and thank you, Marcia! Public service!