Category: Big Project
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Seeing Progress
towels ready to tag and sell There are many steps in the process of weaving and completing each one always feels like a milestone. But there is nothing to compare to giving the cloth it’s final press. All that’s left is to put the hang tag/care label on and these towels can be put away,…
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And Even Busier
last of the hemming (for now) and my knitting at the bottom of the bucket…. One of the things that happened last week is that Kerstin helped with the hand hemming and you can see the pile of placemats and towels and baby ‘blankets’ that got hemmed, ready for pressing tomorrow. There is just one…
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And Even Busier
last of the hemming (for now) and my knitting at the bottom of the bucket…. One of the things that happened last week is that Kerstin helped with the hand hemming and you can see the pile of placemats and towels and baby ‘blankets’ that got hemmed, ready for pressing tomorrow. There is just one…
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A Busy Week
Finally got to the loom today to throw the shuttle a little – it’s the next Big Project sample: close up below (with woven in cut line) It’s always fun to have a visiting weaver, especially one from a different culture. While Kerstin and I have had these sorts of conversations before, there always seems…
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A Busy Week
Finally got to the loom today to throw the shuttle a little – it’s the next Big Project sample: close up below (with woven in cut line) It’s always fun to have a visiting weaver, especially one from a different culture. While Kerstin and I have had these sorts of conversations before, there always seems…
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A Busy Week
Finally got to the loom today to throw the shuttle a little – it’s the next Big Project sample: close up below (with woven in cut line) It’s always fun to have a visiting weaver, especially one from a different culture. While Kerstin and I have had these sorts of conversations before, there always seems…
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Weaving Interrupted
With the phone call last Friday giving mom her surgical date (Feb. 16 – to be confirmed the week prior), we were set into a bit of a frenzy of activity. We want to get her house listed with a real estate agent before she leaves, so the last of the clearing out has to…
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Analytical
Since the Big Project is about choosing yarns appropriate for the final purpose of the cloth I decided that fabric samples alone were not going to be enough, that I would also have to include samples of the yarn used as well. The question then became how to efficiently handle making lots of little bundles of…
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Analytical
Since the Big Project is about choosing yarns appropriate for the final purpose of the cloth I decided that fabric samples alone were not going to be enough, that I would also have to include samples of the yarn used as well. The question then became how to efficiently handle making lots of little bundles of…
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Analytical
Since the Big Project is about choosing yarns appropriate for the final purpose of the cloth I decided that fabric samples alone were not going to be enough, that I would also have to include samples of the yarn used as well. The question then became how to efficiently handle making lots of little bundles of…