Category: efficiency
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#efficiencyfail
I knew I was tired. I knew I was distracted. I knew my mental faculties were less than sharp. And once again I overestimated my capabilities! Instead of marking off my draft as I completed each section, I relied on my dulled brain to follow the draft, so when I reached the end of the…
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Fumble Fingers
Two weeks away from the loom and I can’t tell you how many times I dropped the shuttle this morning. Obviously out of practice! Which brings me to this thought – if you want to get really proficient at weaving, it is something that you need to do as often as you are able. Even…
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Productivity
My attention was brought to a thread on Ravelry where comments were made about how fast I weave. (Based on viewing my video clip on You Tube.) Out of curiousity, I kept track of how many picks I wove in a 40 minute session. This number includes changing bobbins, trimming weft tails, taking sips of…
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MIMO Part III
I did the proto-type for the silk scarves on my four shaft Leclerc Fanny. It’s a fairly simple undulating twill that I added a short extended run to for a number of reasons, but the short version is that it worked with my numbers. 🙂 It looked like this: For one warp of two…
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Here We Go Again – Warp #33
July 29 10:15 am July 29 10:44 am July 29 11:28 am People sometimes comment to me about how fast/productive I am. Well, part of the productivity is how many hours a day I spend at the loom. This is my job. I have spent countless hours practicing, fine tuning, honing my physical skills. Because…
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Self-employed, Self-imposed
one pile diminishes… one pile grows… Although I’m storing the warps in a single box, it will be far too heavy to lift and carry so once I’m completely done winding warps I’ll re-pack (and count how many there actually are) into more manageable (iow, smaller) boxes. At knitting drop in this morning we talked…
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Warp Packing
bamboo blind used as warp packing or separator – 5 more blinds in a tidy ‘puddle’ on the floor From time to time a new-ish weaver will wonder if warp packing is really necessary and if so, what should be used? The short answer is – it depends. If you are only ever beaming very…
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Rat’s Nest
Shortly after this photo was taken I finally gave up trying to salvage the rest of this skein. I’d spent the better part of 2 hours winding it off and decided that I have enough yarn for at least one scarf warp and that was enough of an investment of my time in this skein.…
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Rat’s Nest
Shortly after this photo was taken I finally gave up trying to salvage the rest of this skein. I’d spent the better part of 2 hours winding it off and decided that I have enough yarn for at least one scarf warp and that was enough of an investment of my time in this skein.…
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Rat’s Nest
Shortly after this photo was taken I finally gave up trying to salvage the rest of this skein. I’d spent the better part of 2 hours winding it off and decided that I have enough yarn for at least one scarf warp and that was enough of an investment of my time in this skein.…