Category: Big Project
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Pure Potential
Two mostly empty looms. Wondering if I’m going to actually get some weaving done this week?
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Pure Potential
Two mostly empty looms. Wondering if I’m going to actually get some weaving done this week?
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Lucky
Sometimes you get lucky. So it was with the knot in this warp. Since the cloth was going to be cut up into samples I didn’t feel like taking the time to fix it – instead I just marked it with a contrasting thread intending to toss it. But instead the knot fell in the…
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Another Milestone – sort of
It’s been a long road but I am at the very end of the tunnel – not quite out of it – yet – but nearly. The intended print run for Magic was 1000 copies. When I ran into some technical issues I capped that at 900, plus 100 abridged copies. The complete copies are…
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Mentoring
woven towels being cut apart and serged for wet finishing on the table and the roll of yardage for samples on the beam below As I was finishing off the yardage for project #6 for the Big Project I started thinking about things like mentoring and offering/receiving assistance. Quite frankly, without the help of my…
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Pondering/Rambling Thoughts
One thing doing something like winding skeins allows for is the subconscious mind to pick away at things and one of the realizations I came to is that while I can dye yarn, I don’t actually want to any more. And so once these skeins are dyed I will be inventorying my dyes and will…
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Reality
A while back Handwoven did a theme about studio spaces. I declined to participate because I didn’t want the world to see what a cramped messy place my studio is in reality. back view of work table as of 3 pm today – green tubes to be wound onto pirns, plum tubes to be wound into…
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What’s Necessary
….and here we go! It may have been a mistake to put this warp on the loom right now with so many distractions. On the other hand, weaving this cloth correctly takes focussed concentration, and perhaps this time right now is the perfect time to get my mind off mom’s surgery and the sale of…
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Ploughing Onwards
Last night I managed to get the AVL set up for the next Big Project warp although I didn’t get very far. This morning I finished it off. The warp is a bit different from my usual as I wanted to show a colour and weave effect that can be quite nice. My sectional beam…
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Reality Check
sample #5 loom state There are delusions and optimism – and then there is reality. As I finished cutting the loom state samples for Big Project #5 today I mulled over everything that needs to be done once I get home. The realization dawned that there isn’t a hope in you-know-where of getting everything done by…