Loom

I did it....I bought a loom.  I have been thinking about it, dreaming about it, talking about it and searching them on the web.....and now I own one !  We picked it up this afternoon.  We tried to get it up the stairs in what we had decided would be my "craft room" in one of the smaller bedrooms upstairs, and there it sits....in the middle of the kitchen!  It just so happens that old farm houses built in the late 1800's/early 1900's have really narrow stair cases.  You think that maybe we would have thought about that....nope!  So I looked that bad boy over and decided we could disassemble it further and get it up there no prob!  Right?!?  Wrong!! Very wrong. However it doesn't end there.  I actually used my fore thought, measured the feet of the loom and went upstairs to measure the actual door way, because I had a 'feeling' and my 'feeling' was correct..... The door way is also quite small on my 'proposed' craft room and there is about a 1/4 clearance.  Did I mention the 1/4 clearance requires a straight shot in the doorway and that doorway just so happens to be at a funny angle so there is no straight shot!?!  Haa...yes...back to the drawing board!

So the rest of my day will be spent cleaning and rearranging furniture to get creative.  Yes, this thing is big, but it is going to make some cool things in the future and I am super excited about this!  Stay tuned for pictures of my new toy....the trials and tribulations of getting it up and running and my first big project!

**Update**
Got the loom all set up.  Took some rearranging creativity on our first level, but it is ready to roll.  I took myself to the weaving shop on my way home....spent an hr there and left a whole lot more excited!!  I'm kinda really geeked now to get started!!  I really need to sit down and plan a project here soon!