Category: A Good Yarn: Rayon
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A New Dawn, A New Day…A New Year
I don’t make resolutions at the beginning of the year. New year resolutions seem so….in the face of how many are made and forgotten before the week is out…tenuous. Instead, I found myself today making a decision. With Doug retiring and us needing more income I’d seriously thought of being a lot more aggressive in…
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Sweeping Cobwebs – Still
Obviously I wasn’t thinking clearly when I set up my schedule for the end of this year. Generally I can cope with the myriad deadlines that peak throughout the year, but who thought it was a good idea to have so many things all come to a head the last couple of weeks of the…
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Cob Webs
In some ways I feel like the past few weeks I have been squeezing myself through a tunnel – a not particularly well lit tunnel, one with lots of sticky cobwebs that I’ve had to brush by/through. But I also feel as though I’m nearing the end of that tunnel and the cob webs are…
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Furrows
I think maybe Bonnie Inouye coined the term ‘furrows’ for this sort of collapse effect. 🙂 This is the last of the samples for A Good Yarn: Rayon and I just love when things turn out the way they were planned! Even in the loom state the cloth is creating these lovely furrows. After wet…
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To Pack, or Not to Pack
A while ago I talked some about warp packing and why it is generally A Good Thing. There are, however, some exceptions. Yesterday I beamed the last of the samples for A Good Yarn: Rayon. Rather than wind a whole bunch of spools in order to beam the warp sectionally, I wound an ‘ordinary’…
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One Armed Paper Hanger
darker areas are shadow from the lights behind me I am beginning to feel like a one armed paper hanger as the clock ticks down on the many things I’ve got going right now. I have to be very mindful of the deadlines – the soft ones – and the very hard ones. If I…
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Change of Plans
The view from my living room window at noon today. What you can’t see is the very fine snow ‘falling’ sideways. Needless to say, my shopping excursion to the sewing store for loom apron supplies got cancelled as the store is in the local snow belt. And it was snowy enough here that the highway…
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Deadlines – Just In Time
One of my ‘failings’ is that I tend to treat deadlines as a way to procrastinate. Deadline is two weeks away? I’ve got a week before I have to actually do anything about it. Which can then turn into 5 days. Then 3 days. Finally when there is no more room to procrastinate, I find…
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Breaking the Ice
Breaking the ice with the no-thinking-required white place mat warp last week I’ve been able to start to tackle my to-be-done list. Since I am deadline driven, especially when several deadlines are looming (pun alert!), once I got back at it I was able to see more clearly what needed to be done and begin…
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Contents Under Pressure
Since coming home from down south I have been…grumpy…which is probably the polite word for how I’ve been. While cutting samples for AGY: Rayon apart this morning I realized that there had just been way too much pressure of one sort or another and I needed to dial back on that or else my health…