Category: Fox Fibre
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Magic
Just a few minutes into the first part of the wash cycle the colour begins to develop After the first complete wash cycle the brown is now a deep rich colour and the green a warm mossy shade. You may remember seeing pictures of this warp on the loom where the difference in colour between…
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Sh*t Happens
Question: How can I weave a whole 20 yards without noticing a sleying error? Answer: Rather easily apparently. :P~ So I have a dozen towels with a sleying error. Will it close up enough during wet finishing so that they are not seconds? Only time will tell. They are now in the washing machine soaking…
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Satisfying Progress
Today I cut off what I’ve woven so far on the beige towel warp. Considering I’ve been sick with a cold, progress is…satisfactory. I’m trying very hard to not get on my own case for having done ‘only’ this much. I have, after all, done a bunch of administrivia and cleared a lot of the paperwork I’d…
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Next Big Project
next Fox Fibre towel I think the towels on this warp are turning out quite nicely. They will make excellent hostess gifts next year when I travel to teach. They will also eventually be listed on my Art Fire Store as soon as they are wet finished, hemmed and pressed – which will take a while. …
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Wet Finished
cones of Fox Fibre yarn and wet finished towels Friday evening I finished weaving the beige warp with the Fox Fibre weft and ran the 19 towels through the washer/dryer on Saturday. Today I went and pressed them. Over all I’m quite pleased with the results although the colours aren’t ‘my’ colours. Actually the brown…
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Weaving Zen
There is nothing quite like weaving when everything is going smoothly. 🙂 Today I found myself in harmony with the loom and decided to tape a video clip. I’d hoped that my left hand would be more visible so that viewers could see how I catch the shuttle between my index and middle finger, then…
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Rising to the Challenge
here is the 2/20 merc. cotton warp all beamed and ready to be threaded brown and green Fox Fibre yarn on cone and small sample soaked in heavy concentration of washing soda and detergent – wow! look at the green! One of my weaving mentors always said that if we weren’t making mistakes we weren’t…
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Sunny Sunday
Silk scarves after pressing Managed to get the pressing done today – 8 silk scarves (whoops, really lost count!), 7 silk gimp shawls, 2 larger shawls and a small rectangle that may become a baby ‘blankie’. This afternoon I met with a lace making friend and we both talked lots and made (a very little)…
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Looking Ahead – Cautiously
possible yarns for next warp – tea towels with Fox Fibre weft possible draft for towels I think I’m on scarf #7 with a possibility of either 9 or 10 scarves on this warp. The silk warp went onto the loom at 20 turns (nominally 20 yards) and I’ve been weaving each scarf about 72″…
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Another Mini-Milestone (or two)
This morning I went up to the annex and did some more pressing. The colours of the Fox Fibre yarns are actually a little more intense than shown here – guess the flash wiped some of the intensity out. From the left – 50% green, 25% green, 50% brown, 25% brown, then regular 2/16 unmerc.…