More weaving, new loom! Vegan Food!

I've finally joined the Niagara Handweavers and Spinners Guild which meets at the Welland Museum, and through that group, I'm enrolled in some more in depth weaving lessons with a lady from the guild. She mentioned that a woman also from the guild was getting rid of her weaving stuff and hand a big 45" Counterbalance floor loom for sale. Well... I couldn't pass up the good deal, and went for it. I had Pawlie's dad come help get it since they have a van, but it wouldn't even fit in there, so we had to take it apart and put it back together in the house, which actually worked alot easier anyway. Here it is all re-assembled in my craft room. I love it! I've conscripted my dad to build me a warping board and i just need to get a couple shuttles, and i'll be on my way weaving!!



Below is the second scarf I made on my little rigid heddle loom which is just perfect for plain weave scarves. I think I'll continue to use it as my scarf loom because of it's ease to warp and portability.



I wanted to do twisted fringe ends, and so looked up a tutorial of how to do it by hand. You can buy little appartus' in which you turn a crank and it'll twist it up for you, but, i decided to just do it myself. It took forever. Probably just as long as weaving the scarf itself. But they look nice and I'm glad.



On the food note, we made some vegan pasta out of Pawl's new cookbook. The egg in the pasta is replaced with some silken tofu and some other things vegan. It ended up cooking nicely and tasted amazing! We filled the ravioli with a cashew 'ricotta' which was also really amazing. I do love cashews!