Category: A Good Yarn: Rayon
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Going, Going…Gone
Just one copy left of A Good Yarn: Cotton…edited to say the last one just sold… Still loads of A Good Yarn: Rayon, Weave a V and Magic in the Water on cd (one) or flash drive. I will be posting photos of tea towels tomorrow – life got a bit busy/complicated and I didn’t…
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Happy Birthday, Baby!
Yesterday I said I was going to announce a ‘special’ on my publications. Traditionally I have done this as a combination Canada Day/July 4/my birthday offering. So, here’s the deal. I have produced Magic in the Water; wet finishing handwovens. This is now OOP as a ‘real’ book, but available on CD (3 copies), on…
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Life, Reimangined
Once again Life has taught me that you should never get too attached to your plans because when Life Happens, you are not in control anymore. Doesn’t matter what plans you may have, other things suddenly need to take priority. I won’t go into the details of my health issues except to say that once…
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Life, Reimangined
Once again Life has taught me that you should never get too attached to your plans because when Life Happens, you are not in control anymore. Doesn’t matter what plans you may have, other things suddenly need to take priority. I won’t go into the details of my health issues except to say that once…
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Life, Reimangined
Once again Life has taught me that you should never get too attached to your plans because when Life Happens, you are not in control anymore. Doesn’t matter what plans you may have, other things suddenly need to take priority. I won’t go into the details of my health issues except to say that once…
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Contingency Plans
Warp at about the half way mark – it’s slow going with needing a temple and trying to catch the weft loops that bubble up in the shed. However, I am at the half way mark! I’m doing four different weft colours and weaving them in rotation so that I have an equal number of…
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Contingency Plans
Warp at about the half way mark – it’s slow going with needing a temple and trying to catch the weft loops that bubble up in the shed. However, I am at the half way mark! I’m doing four different weft colours and weaving them in rotation so that I have an equal number of…
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Contingency Plans
Warp at about the half way mark – it’s slow going with needing a temple and trying to catch the weft loops that bubble up in the shed. However, I am at the half way mark! I’m doing four different weft colours and weaving them in rotation so that I have an equal number of…
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Onwards We Go
The past few days have been spent on some forward planning (as the saying goes). After sorting through all the yarn and selecting that which we would try to sell at Fibres West Doug has spent the last few days breaking the large mill cones down into smaller quantities. I have an industrial cone winder so…
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Continuing the Red
one end of the studio – red on the loom and on the mill the other end of the studio – red warp in the bucket, red being rough sleyed on the table, red on the loom The only problem is that I’m running low on red to go with the cones of cotton flake…