Or perhaps I should say, a matter of pressing?
I’ve mentioned my industrial steam press in previous posts, and since I had my Blackberry with me (I’m finding a camera phone amazingly handy!) thought I’d take some pictures. 😀
So here is Puff………….
Doug installed Puff in my ‘annex’ which has two areas. The front, which has no windows, is where Puff resides. The other area has one tiny window and is crammed to the rafters with stuff!
Here is a shot of the drying rack with some of the tea towels I pressed this afternoon.
I don’t mind doing more than one of an item. I find that customers buying placemats or even tea towels, quite often want more than one of the same design.
My goal is to use up as much of the yarn in the background of this photo as possible in the near future. The yarn to the right is a high quality acrylic and I’ve been doing throws, using it for weft. But I’ve got an awful lot of it………..
Here are some photos of the tea towels that I gave a finishing press to today. They are now ready to be tagged, priced and sent out for – hopefully – sale. The natural linen looks a bit green in this photo – it’s actually much more beige. I think it’s partly that the blue is coming through from the other side of the fabric. I wove these towels in August/September and finally got the last of them hemmed.
The following towels were woven in Nov/Dec/Jan. I’ve been lagging behind on my hemming, so it felt really good to get these dealt with today. The blue and beige are cotton and linen, the blue and white is all cotton.
Yesterday I cut and serged the last warp and those are the towels on the drying rack above. Well, some of them. There’s still another load to go into the washer/dryer, but probably not until later in the week, now.
Today I got a phone call from a gal I met in December at a craft fair. She does surface design using embroidery techniques. She called to invite me to a drop in for craftspeople every second Wednesday. The next drop in just happens to be tomorrow, so I’m going to go and bring my tub of hemming. 😉
One of my goals was to be less of a stick-in-the-mud and try to develop more of a social life. The call felt like an invitation that I really wanted to accept, even though I’ll miss the next one as I’ll be out of town.