thanks!

For all your nice comments on my studio. It was great fun to put together, and I spent most of the weekend there. Having a desk near the light makes so much difference! Having put up with makeshift arrangements for so long, it was fantastic to slip open a drawer, find a zipper; take a scrap of fabric over to another drawer, find matching thread; put my hands immediately on tape measures, rulers, and miscellaneous little tools. And put them back again, instead of leaving them out to get buried under scraps of cloth and balls of yarn. I also got a double layer of carpet padding and put my oriental rug over it, with the loom on top of the padding. I am hoping this will deaden any noise. The studio is actually a bedroom, and my downstairs neighbor sleeps right below. When things are going really well I sometimes weave early in the morning, but I don't know how much sound it makes... does anyone else have experience with this? Is two layers of carpet padding sufficient noise insulation for a 24" 8H loom?

The weekend's bounty is one and a half pairs of pants. The completed pair is pink and fuschia, I am wearing them today and enjoying them greatly. The half-done pair is lime green with white daisies, and I'm about even divided between thinking it's great and thinking it is hideous. It is, anyway, bright and cheerful.

High point of the sewing endeavors was attaching a patch pocket to the front of the pink pants. I matched the pattern so well that when I tried the pants on in the mirror I couldn't tell the pocket was there!