Category: efficiency
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Ta-DAH!
And it’s out! The Efficient Weaver DVD was launched today at the Interweave Press store. It is currently on sale so now would be a good time to purchase. 🙂
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Community Ties
One of the benefits of the internet is the ability to stay in touch with people at a distance – sometimes at great distance. During the summer Bobbie Irwin came through town and we managed to connect with each other for an all too brief visit. As part of the visit I gave her a…
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No Contest
Blooming Leaf overshot design converted to twill blocks Got the next warp up and weaving. Blooming Leaf is a very large overshot design, so naturally it’s a very large twill block design. So large that I could only fit two repeats into the width and three into the length. This isn’t a very good…
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Weaving with Linen
This will be the ‘face’ of the towels. Colours are not accurate, see photo below Weaving with the fewest shafts up means I’m weaving the cloth with the ‘back’ side facing me. If you have an ‘ordinary’ treadle jack loom, the fewer shafts being lifted, the less effort required to do the lifting. It’s a…
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It’s Official! (The Big Reveal)
So this is what it has been all about – or half of it, at least. In May a film crew came to Prince George and taped this and The Efficient Weaver, due out in about a month. It was great fun to have Anita and Garrett here (this one was taped in the guild…
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Squeak!
I just managed to squeak the last towel out of this warp. Fifty yards = 20 spa towels, which is pretty much what I’d calculated. The reason there is so little warp left is because I used up about 48″ weaving a colour gamp for the designer’s approval. Now I know that my math was…
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Hurrying
So many people think that working efficiently is somehow ‘hurrying’. In fact, hurry is the opposite of efficient. I saw a classic example of someone hurrying to get a job done a while ago. She was feeling under the deadline pressure gun and working as quickly as she possibly could in order to get the…
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Wear and Tear
click to biggify I wear these bicycle gloves while weaving with the fly shuttle. The reason I started was that a while back I went to the gym to get fit and wound up pinching a nerve in my neck which caused my hands to go numb. Weaving was agony. At the time I was…
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Progress
First four ‘spa’ towels ready to be shipped – love the way individual threads magically turn into whole cloth after wet finishing. Progress has been much slower than I would like due to a couple of things – my back is still giving me fits so I have to pace myself more slowly, then the…
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Slogging
There is perhaps 35 yards left on the 50 yard warp I’ve been working on. I’m at the pure ‘slog’ stage, now. There is a poster on Facebook that begins something to the effect that creative people are easily bored. I don’t think so. I don’t think creative people bother to invite boredom into their…