Snow on the way are you ready for it

ariarnia

Nothing wrong with minimalism - in spring and summer, when you want to keep everything clean and airy. It's why I think I stick with textiles that can be washed and put away easily.

moneyistooshorttomention wrote: »

Hmmm....tapestries...hmmm..:). Now there's a thought....and I wonder whether non-creative me (ie not one single creative bone in my body:() might manage to make something along those lines....I like the thought...

Haven't had time yet this year but last winter I started out making something like this - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7YJZ6Q2ZMFU (though I bought a 3 foot peg loom rather than making one) - with greens on the bottom and blues on the top and other colours in the middleish.

If you squint it's kind of landscapey

Make them with ripped sheets/old curtains/cut up plastic bags/raw (washed and carded) wool for rugs and with shop bought wool and hessian twine for the walls.

Not something I'd sell or give as gifts (as yet at least) but keeps the hands busy and surprisingly quick to do when you get started. Some of the ones you see on line are brilliant:

(not mine)

(also not mine)

Plus something that you can just drop if you need to - I started out trying to knit/crochet while pregnant with lollypop and the number of abandoned snarled messes that I consigned to the bin as unrecoverable - definitely didn't help my blood pressure.

Not sure where you are in mid wales, but a few years back we were thinking about moving to the cardigan area (good life has a lot to answer for) and did a residential course with a lovely couple that introduced us to a lot of people into things like basket weaving and wood carving. I think she was a painter or sculptor and he was the weaver.

Might be worth dropping them a line if you're local - they seemed very friendly/good old style people (interested in talking to us about the area/good places to live/what the local schools were like rather all business) even if you didn't want to do a course with them.

http://www.snail-trail.co.uk

Ignore me if this isn't of any interest.

System

Ive got nothing to worry about. Hubby and 'Youngest' have arranged for winter tyres to be put on their cars as they use the cars for work and they have a long drive to and from their place of work.

suki1964

I've got snow chains for my shoes

Can't remember what they are called,trax or something?

Got them of QVC a long time back, keep me upright no matter how thick the ice

VfM4meplse

Judi wrote: »

Ive got nothing to worry about. Hubby and 'Youngest' have arranged for winter tyres to be put on their cars as they use the cars for work and they have a long drive to and from their place of work.

I'd be bricking it, knowing my nearest and dearest are on the road with motorists who haven't been trained to drive in snow and ice. They can still be the victim of other's stupidity!

westcoastscot

[Hi Gers,
We had heavy snow in 2010 here - recall sliding down the hill towards the canal in the car, and choosing to go into a lamp-post rather than the water!
Stay safe

MallyGirl

suki1964 wrote: »

I've got snow chains for my shoes

Can't remember what they are called,trax or something?

Got them of QVC a long time back, keep me upright no matter how thick the ice

yak trax - brilliant things.

My sled dogs are hoping for snow but it doesn't look like we will get it here

Gers

westcoastscot wrote: »

[Hi Gers,
We had heavy snow in 2010 here - recall sliding down the hill towards the canal in the car, and choosing to go into a lamp-post rather than the water!
Stay safe

Oooh, I'm near the canal too! Hoping that there's not snow here though where I am is very flat.

monnagran

1962/63 was the winter I learned to drive! My test was one of the first tests held when they opened the test centres again. Driving on snow and ice never held any terror for me after that.

2010 was the year we moved to the Isle of Wight. "It's much warmer over here. We never get snow," we were told.
The night that it snowed, people were out in their gardens making snowmen at 2.00am in case the snow had disappeared by the morning.
We were also out. Not making snowmen alas. All the snow slipped off the church roof and completely crushed our car which was parked in the drive.

After living through the winter of 1947 and 1963 I cannot get unduly worried about about blizzard conditions. In '47 food was rationed, coal was rationed, things like blankets were in short supply, there was no rubber for hot water bottles although we did have a couple of stone ones and we were cold beyond belief. There was no suggestion that schools should close. We sat in unheated classrooms and lessons were enlivened by jumping up and down for 5 minutes every half an hour or so to keep our blood circulating.

1963 saw me teaching, so the cold classrooms were revisited. I struggled to travel the 15 miles by bus every day, with the snow banked up 6 to 8 feet high at the sides of the road. Not one day did that school close. The outside toilets were kept going by chains of boys flushing them with buckets of hot water boiled on the kitchen stoves. Take note all you Health and Safety experts............and weep.
At night I returned to my top floor garret with its one-bar electric fire, bare floorboards and thin cotton curtains where my bottle of ink froze on the windowsill.

Now we have plentiful food, central heating, insulated houses, duvets, electric blankets, freezers full of food and warm clothes.
That is why I am not wringing my hands and stressing over the prospect of a hard winter.

Every day that passes is another day that won't be part of a legendary snowbound winter.

x

Blackbeard_of_Perranporth

I missed the hurricane as well.

VfM4meplse

monnagran wrote: »

1962/63 was the winter I learned to drive! My test was one of the first tests held when they opened the test centres again. Driving on snow and ice never held any terror for me after that.

2010 was the year we moved to the Isle of Wight. "It's much warmer over here. We never get snow," we were told.
The night that it snowed, people were out in their gardens making snowmen at 2.00am in case the snow had disappeared by the morning.
We were also out. Not making snowmen alas. All the snow slipped off the church roof and completely crushed our car which was parked in the drive.

After living through the winter of 1947 and 1963 I cannot get unduly worried about about blizzard conditions. In '47 food was rationed, coal was rationed, things like blankets were in short supply, there was no rubber for hot water bottles although we did have a couple of stone ones and we were cold beyond belief. There was no suggestion that schools should close. We sat in unheated classrooms and lessons were enlivened by jumping up and down for 5 minutes every half an hour or so to keep our blood circulating.

1963 saw me teaching, so the cold classrooms were revisited. I struggled to travel the 15 miles by bus every day, with the snow banked up 6 to 8 feet high at the sides of the road. Not one day did that school close. The outside toilets were kept going by chains of boys flushing them with buckets of hot water boiled on the kitchen stoves. Take note all you Health and Safety experts............and weep.
At night I returned to my top floor garret with its one-bar electric fire, bare floorboards and thin cotton curtains where my bottle of ink froze on the windowsill.

Now we have plentiful food, central heating, insulated houses, duvets, electric blankets, freezers full of food and warm clothes.
That is why I am not wringing my hands and stressing over the prospect of a hard winter.

Every day that passes is another day that won't be part of a legendary snowbound winter.

x

^^ Well before my time! Haha, yes I know I get wussier with every passing year but my tolerance for discomfort is very low indeed.