Category: A Good Yarn: LandH
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SABLE
Stash Acquired Beyond Life Expectancy… scarf #2 just begun – #1 is visible below scarf #3 – photos do not do the colours justice Sometimes having SABLE is a good thing. The first of the painted warps is a bit pastel and I wasn’t sure I had the ‘right’ weft for it. But a good…
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SABLE
Stash Acquired Beyond Life Expectancy… scarf #2 just begun – #1 is visible below scarf #3 – photos do not do the colours justice Sometimes having SABLE is a good thing. The first of the painted warps is a bit pastel and I wasn’t sure I had the ‘right’ weft for it. But a good…
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Trip Recap
large cauldron – not sure what they used it for – scouring? dyeing? at Masson Mill Jacquard loom at Masson Mill Paradise Mill – had lots of spare loom parts stored – here are a stack of beaters with fly shuttle boxes attached Docent at Quarry Mill explaining how a hand loom works One of…
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Mission Accomplished…
…sort of. I had several things I hoped to accomplish on this trip. ¤ Cold mangle the samples for A Good Yarn:LandH. That got done even though it did take two days instead of one. ¤ Sew two summer tops. Well, one got done, the other is cut out and the pieces serged. It was…
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Looking Westwards
With just a couple of days left here in Bergdala, I am beginning to look towards home and what will await me when I get there. I had hoped to do a little more sewing before I left, but I have had a sewing tutorial and am pretty sure I can carry on at home. …
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Looking Westwards
With just a couple of days left here in Bergdala, I am beginning to look towards home and what will await me when I get there. I had hoped to do a little more sewing before I left, but I have had a sewing tutorial and am pretty sure I can carry on at home. …
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Looking Westwards
With just a couple of days left here in Bergdala, I am beginning to look towards home and what will await me when I get there. I had hoped to do a little more sewing before I left, but I have had a sewing tutorial and am pretty sure I can carry on at home. …
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Mangled
Spent part of today beginning to mangle the fabric for A Good Yarn: Linen and Hemp. The transformation is truly magical! I have some photos but unsure of how to get them out of my camera into Kerstin’s laptop, Kerstin has posted some photos on her blog.
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Satisfactory
Although I am running a couple of days ‘behind’ where I wanted to be by this point in the calendar, I can’t complain. All of the warps that I wanted to take to Sweden are woven, the ‘before’ samples taped and cut apart, filed in their bins with my scratch notes and the thrums which…
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Musings
last of the warps for AGY:L&H to be woven on the small loom… Weaver A was sitting at a table in the dining hall at a conference, wearing what was obviously a hand woven top. Another weaver walked by, did a double take and exclaimed “You’re wearing my top!” Weaver A was noticeably taken aback.…