A pile of orders that went out the other day.

Sometimes when I'm getting ready to ship out orders and have everything laid out on my shipping table I just have to take pictures.  The color of wood is so amazing to me...  Here are some beauties.

7" Samplers are finally complete

I finally completed those cute little 7" rigid heddle looms and they are so cute.  I have one more to complete and then these will all be done and off my "to do" list.

There are two cherry, one maple and one oak one.  Purpleheart and paduak were used as accents.  

7" dbl Heddle Sample Loom kits coming soon!

I thought I'd give you a sneak peek of one of the little 7" sampler looms getting all glued up.  There will be 4 of these sets available very soon.  These are complete sets that come with 4 heddles and all the tools you will ever need for this little loom. 

My Quilters Bee Bag completed

I've closed my shop to do my taxes, you know those things that we hate to do each year.  I don't get much time throughout the year to do much accounting so at tax time I have nearly an entire year to enter all those receipts into quick books and trust me when I say it is a chore to do it this way!  So in between this tax I worked on making a Quilters Bee bag, I can't sit at my pc with out lots of breaks, it just kills my back.  So I did taxes and did some sewing too :)   
Here she is...I LOVE this fabric and have enough to make a loom bag, but that will be another time.  :)

A few reproduction looms on my work benches.

My shops re-open on February 1st even though it is still pretty darn cold.  We will see how it goes.  But while my shop was closed of course I did work when the whether permitted and even though today is super cold I managed to get this walnut treadle complete cut out.  This picture is before I routed all the parts but you get the picture.  With this loom this close to finished I can work on it when I get the chance so she'll be done sooner than I expected.  I also got a Maple top all glued up and ready to cut, so there's that!

And I also have 3 of the reproduction box looms all cut out and am putting a finish on the body parts now.  I have already completed the heddles and they have a finish on them but those are a bit of a surprise.  I used a reproduction design this time for the heddles and I'm really pleased with how they turned out. Here is the first coat of poly on the body parts.  Cherry, Walnut and Paduak are the woods I chose for these.