Category: efficiency
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Endings, Beginnings
From time to time a newbie will declare that they are only ever going to put loooong warps on so that they don’t have to warp their loom. Or one will declare that they are going to ‘invent’ a way to have continuous warps so that they don’t have to warp their loom again. Ever.…
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Multi-Stranded Weft
Amy asked about my multi-stranded weft yarns – how I dealt with them, if I did anything special to make them behave. Three yarn packages set up for winding. I always take off the end of a tube or cone. However, I always have the yarn feed off in the same direction. I use an…
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300 degrees (approximately)
Not quite a complete 360 but here is the one end of the studio, almost ready for the Big Project. Just wish I were confident this cold would be gone by Tuesday. Two weeks or 14 days – and I’m on day 11… view as you enter the door moving to the left – the…
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No Boredom Allowed
Just cut the four scarves I wove yesterday and today off the loom. Unfortunately my camera really didn’t want to do the colours justice so this photo doesn’t show what the scarves actually look like. But what I wanted to show was that, just because you are weaving a ‘long’ warp, the items don’t have…
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Allergy Season
Winter has loosed it’s hold on us and with it…allergy season appears to have arrived. Another really bad nights sleep left me lethargic again today and the grey dreariness outside didn’t help. But I did manage to weave off a scarf and then threaded the AVL over two sessions this afternoon. Tomorrow I’ll weave the…
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Allergy Season
Winter has loosed it’s hold on us and with it…allergy season appears to have arrived. Another really bad nights sleep left me lethargic again today and the grey dreariness outside didn’t help. But I did manage to weave off a scarf and then threaded the AVL over two sessions this afternoon. Tomorrow I’ll weave the…
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Allergy Season
Winter has loosed it’s hold on us and with it…allergy season appears to have arrived. Another really bad nights sleep left me lethargic again today and the grey dreariness outside didn’t help. But I did manage to weave off a scarf and then threaded the AVL over two sessions this afternoon. Tomorrow I’ll weave the…
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No Contest
scarf #2 – weft is actually a ‘pure’ yellow, not the green/yellow it looks on my monitor Rolling along, here is scarf #2. The weft for #1 was a deep red, almost brown. The next scarf will be woven with a dark chocolate brown weft. Quite often when I demo how I do what I…
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Weave Like a Pirate
Obligatory visual – and yes, that’s an all black warp on the AVL I’m just going to start threading…. Weave like a Pirate? What? Where did that come from???? Blame insomnia. I couldn’t sleep the first night at John C. Campbell in January and while the thoughts roiled through my brain I thought about what weaving…
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Never Doubt…
…the wisdom of the universe… I haven’t used a mill in any serious way for…decades. I used to have a small table top mill that I would wind warps on, on the dining room table. But I gave that up when I switched to sectional warping and never looked back. When I did need to…