Category: Another Big Project

  stack of loom state samples to be wet finished This little pile may not look very impressive, but represents the better part of 8 hours of effort, not counting all the thinking and planning, the winding of skeins onto cones, the rummaging through my shelves, the trip to the local yarn shop to buy…

  Yesterday I started weaving the samples for the Next Big Project.   I have been running numbers, examining the content, working out how best to present the material.   This morning I woke up at 6 am and the thought squirrels immediately began running rampant through my brain.  Not able to shut them up (or off,…

  Today was a little bitty day.  (A little bit of this, a little bit of that…) It started with pressing a batch of towels, which took longer than ‘usual’ because they were a bit on the wet side.  Plus there were 16 to do, not 8 or 9, which has been my ‘usual’ batch…

  Today I will weave the last two towels on this warp.  There wasn’t quite enough of the hairy tow linen to finish the warp, but the thicker hemp is weaving up nicely.  It will create a thicker, stiffer cloth, but should wear in nicely and do the job of drying things.  Hands, if not…

  If it was ‘easy’ everyone would be doing it.   And that’s pretty much it, isn’t it?  But sometimes we do things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard.  (Yes, I’m channeling JFK.) Human beings do tend to love a puzzle.  Well, some of us do.  We enjoy the challenge of thinking…

  The pile of yarn grows on my dining room table. Doug has kindly agreed to turn all those skeins into cones, which will make working with that yarn easier. In the meantime, I am steadily picking away at the warp on the Megado. As my health has diminished, my mental faculties have also dulled. …

  I don’t like photos of myself.  Especially as I have aged – and expanded, shall we say.  It’s hard for me to view photos but especially hard to see video of myself. So most of my video clips on You Tube show very little of me and focus on my hands. Doing the DVDs for…

  Ah, the bumblebee, that insect that isn’t supposed to be able to fly – and yet, somehow does… So, after many months of studiously working at reducing my stash, I will today order some yarn.  Seems I will need to do some sampling for the New Big Project.   Sampling new-to-me yarn means that I…

  Ah, the bumblebee, that insect that isn’t supposed to be able to fly – and yet, somehow does… So, after many months of studiously working at reducing my stash, I will today order some yarn.  Seems I will need to do some sampling for the New Big Project.   Sampling new-to-me yarn means that I…

  Today I should be able to cut the latest warp off the loom.  My next warp on the Megado will be another 2/8 cotton warp, with a single (tow?) linen weft.  I’m assuming tow because it is quite hairy.  It should be quite absorbent and make good hand/kitchen towels.   The cone of linen is…