I took up weaving...

It's dark at 5 o'clock so rather than plop my ars on the couch for a marathon channel surfing session, I found something to occupy a few hours spread out over a week...or so.

I found a snowshoe making kit to build my own snowshoes.
Yeah, I know what you may be thinking..."this guy has a bad case of cabin feaver."

The frames come pre-assembled and the rest was up to me.
I dumped out all the parts, read through the instructions a couple times and got started.
First I sanded down the frames to a nice smooth finish.



Then got started with weaving the toe section first. My first try was a flop. I was half way through the weave and the pattern looked like a pile of spaghetti noodles. So I un-wove (is that a word?) and started over...3 times. Finally got it.



Then wove the tail sections. Only had to un-weave and re-start once.



Then came the center sections. Oh yeah, 3 un-weaves and re-starts later, I finally got it.


4 coats of varnish later and bindings attached.
Now I'm wishing for more snow.
Go away El Nino, I want a big dump.