Category: Another Big Project
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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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Customer Satisfaction/Service
Glamour shot of the orange/beige towels One of the things I did a few years ago (quite a few years ago – pre-internet days) was take a class on marketing. One of the sessions was on Customer Service and Satisfaction. One of the bits of trivia that stuck in my head was that a happy…
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Easy
next mat warp, beamed, lease sticks ready to be transferred behind the reed Dad had a phrase he used when he saw someone do something particularly skillful. It might be a man keeping 20 plates spinning on sticks on the Ed Sullivan show, the logger sports at the fall fair or the RCMP Musical Ride.…
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Queueing Up
So here is the queue of yarn to be used as weft for place mats. That big cone of blue/green? It’s nearly 5 pounds. The rose cone at the back? I used up 1 pound 4 ounces as weft on an 11 meter long warp. In other words, there is some serious weaving required to…
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Queueing Up
So here is the queue of yarn to be used as weft for place mats. That big cone of blue/green? It’s nearly 5 pounds. The rose cone at the back? I used up 1 pound 4 ounces as weft on an 11 meter long warp. In other words, there is some serious weaving required to…
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Back to the Stash
One of the benefits of doing the Big Project is that it left me with a standard place mat warp on the loom. A design that uses up a fair bit of yarn for weft as I bundle several strands together to make a nice thick yarn. Because ‘taking it easy’ turned out to be…
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Anniversary
May 9. For me this date has special significance for several reasons. May 9, 1970 Doug and I got married. May 9, 2008, I had an angioplasty with two stents installed. May 9, 2014 I said goodbye to the ‘crew’ who is helping bring the latest Big Project into material form. While I am…
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Whirlwind
Some of you have guessed what the Big Project is all about. This picture will give you another clue. The studio feels very empty now. The extra people are gone – or will be tomorrow – gone out of the studio, at least, along with all their equipment. The cold that jumped on my…
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Butterflies R Us
The count down has begun. The deadline looms. One more sleep. And my cold is still well and enjoying itself in my lungs. Tomorrow will be here regardless of how healthy – or unhealthy – I am. Better living through chemistry will be the slogan of the week. I never worry too much about…