Category: craft fairs
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Looming ‘Disasters’
See the mistake? No? Well, neither did I until after I had woven 12 yards in two different weave structures. (Yellow line shows where I fixed the problem.) Even after fixing the sleying oopsie, the cloth doesn’t look a whole lot different. I am hoping it will remain just as invisible after wet finishing, which…
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Mermaid Tea Towels
cloth being woven ‘up side down’ in order to lift the fewest shafts most of the time… So there I was yesterday, smugly thinking I was ‘done’ for the year. Until we set up the booth this morning, that is…. I knew I was low on tea towels; I did not realize just how low…
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Dragon’s Breath
Another example of a little yellow going a long way – the colours are not ‘true’ in this photo – it looks much nicer in real life. 😉 And there are just three yellow threads out of 30 in the repeat. Just two more sleeps and the whirlwind begins. I am working very hard to…
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Weighing Options
Finished threading the warp this morning, got it sleyed, tied on and started weaving. The dark blue is the header – just any old ‘waste’ yarn I have – dribs and drabs left on bobbins. This time I paid attention to my notes and threaded it the way the last towel warp was supposed to…
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Winding Down
With less than 12 days until I leave for the Eastern Great Lakes conference, followed closely (every following weekend until the end of November) by retail sales, I realized I need to dial back my production and take some time to rest. I have been pushing, not hard but steadily, since the end of May…
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Multi-tasking
With the pressure of deadlines ramping up, I’m multi-tasking. I would wish for a clone except she’d probably start doing even more stuff. Just finished cutting the place mat warp off the loom and started cutting them apart to serge. Doug will go pressing later this week so I’m trying to get stuff ready to…
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Time Management
next (last, for now) rayon chenille warp, empty AVL in background When I chose to become a professional/production weaver I had to make some choices. One of those choices was in the type of product I would make. Even though I am mostly interested in weaving, intellectually, in terms of weave structure, quite often exploring…
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Adulthood
rayon chenille warp rayon chenille stash When I was a child I could hardly wait to grow up, be an adult, be….free. The problem is, there is just exactly as much freedom when you are an adult as when you are a child. You still have obligations, responsibilities…stuff you’d rather not do but must. Being…
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Show Time!
Autumn really is here – the show season begins in just 6 weeks and today I got the promotional material for Art Market in Calgary, AB. I have 4 complementary tickets to give away. If you are in – or will be in – Calgary November 14-17 and would like the tickets, email me at…
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Beauty Shot
Doug pressed the scarves today. I think they are a ‘winner’. Now I have to decide if I wind longer warps and dress the big loom with them. That would require a lot more fiddling, but make the weaving itself go more easily. I think you’ll probably guess which route I’ll take. If I’m going…