Category: Another Big Project
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Spring…cleaning?
I’m not much of a housekeeper. I’m not any kind of housekeeper, come to that. When it comes to a choice between cleaning and weaving? Weaving will win every time, hands down. But I have a powerful motivation for my studio, at least, to look, um, presentable. With a blue/green shag at one end of…
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Backlog
Yesterday I mentioned I was feeling overwhelmed. This is not an unusual feeling for me, I quite often get myself in over my head. Very familiar with the deep end of the pool I am. It is one of the hazards of being self-employed. You wind up pursuing several different options because you never know…
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Little by Little
One by one, the samples for the next Big Project are getting done. This morning I cut this one off the loom. The green is much more intense in real life – the flash washed the chartreuse out I guess. But never mind, it’s done and the linen behaved beautifully in spite of the arid…
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Retro
next warp with scratch notes, draft and yarn ready for warp winding Making slow but steady progress, next up is a linen sample for the Big Project. In many cases I have been able to combine my ‘sampling’ with ordinary production. But I don’t normally weave a lot of 100% linen fabric so this one…
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A Little Pretty
What with one thing and another, a little blast of ‘pretty’ was very welcome today. I had intended to take photos of the class and some of the things they accomplished over the two days but once I’m in teaching mode, I’m not in blogging mode, I guess. Long story short I forgot all about…
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Love Affair
My love affair with twills is long standing but lately it’s been herringbone twill. Different yarns, different proportions, but it has been holding my interest for a few warps now. This is another of the sample warps for the Big Project. I need to sit down with my notebook and make sure I get all…
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Critical Condition
With the arrival of March, my next crop of deadlines has just gone ‘critical’. Doug is winding the box of skeins on the floor onto cones so that I can weave samples with them. He is also winding pirns to be woven on the AVL lurking in the background. In the foreground, I am winding…
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Snow Day
In spite of a prediction of snow again today, the skies cleared and the sun was brilliant. But look how much snow we have! You can’t even see the top of the pile in front of our house as both Doug and our neighbour to the north struggle to keep our driveways clear. Yes, the…
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Another One Bites the Dust
Since taking the photo, the tall gold/beige cone has been emptied. The mat warp is about half way woven and there is enough warp left to finish the gold/beige bobbins and hopefully start on the darker beige waiting in the wings. From the size of that cone, it will probably take two more warps to…
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Back Into the Groove
It took me longer than I’d hoped to get moving today, but did manage to cut a swathe through the paperwork. Suddenly realized that I had not paid my VISA bill, so quickly downloaded the invoice just now and will head back to the bank again tomorrow. Late, but oh well. Actually I’m almost so…