Category: CD Weaver
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Productivity
orange all used up – changed to cream – the beauty of a neutral warp! After a weaving demo at a workshop, a new weaver came up to thank me for the demonstration. Essentially she said that she’d resigned herself to the fact weaving was going to be slow forever, and after watching me weave…
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Guest Post – Katie
My name is Katie Rivas and I met Laura Fry in January ’09 while taking a class she did for my weaving guild in Southern California. I liked Laura off the bat and even though the class was round-robin, I spent way more time asking Laura about a million questions I had stored up regarding…
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Guest Post – Katie
My name is Katie Rivas and I met Laura Fry in January ’09 while taking a class she did for my weaving guild in Southern California. I liked Laura off the bat and even though the class was round-robin, I spent way more time asking Laura about a million questions I had stored up regarding…
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Guest Post – Katie
My name is Katie Rivas and I met Laura Fry in January ’09 while taking a class she did for my weaving guild in Southern California. I liked Laura off the bat and even though the class was round-robin, I spent way more time asking Laura about a million questions I had stored up regarding…
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The Tally for the Day
Today I: wove a chenille scarf and finished the warp on the loomdressed the loom, wove two more scarvesdressed the loom, wove two more scarvesgot the next warp attached to the apron beam ready to beam tomorrowwound skeins to be dyed next warp – pretty! I also:read my bookhad coffee with the neighbour where we…
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Weavolution
This picture is not so much about how I rough sley the reed (which has been covered in step by step detail on CD Weaver in You Have to be Warped) but about the size of the ties I use to secure the cross and tie off the warp chain. I was reminded about this…
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Threading
One of the fun things about travelling and meeting other weavers is that we can have conversations about things like techniques and preferences. Some weavers really dislike TexSolv heddles. I like them, but part of why I like them is due to the way I thread. I thread in groups, not one thread at a…
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Simplify?
Got to Puff on Saturday evening and got some pressing done. These towels were woven a while ago but they are now ‘done’ – ready to be tagged and priced and put up for sale. But I’ve been doing a lot of thinking lately. For 30 or so years I have woven pretty much every…
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Changing bobbins
This video clip shows how I change a bobbin and start a new thread. It is another clip from CD Weaver. Using the Leclerc shuttle, I flip the empty bobbin up with the index finger of my left hand, slip the full bobbin on, thread it through the hole, snap it into place and continue…
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Next Towel Design
What this photo doesn’t show very well is the darker blue in the middle of the cloth. If you squint, you might just be able to make out the colour shift to the far right and left sides. When I say ‘darker’, the blue is pale so it isn’t very much darker than the white.…