Category: fringe twisting
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Marking Progress
missing from the photo is the small pair of embroidery scissors I use to cut the waste yarn The past few weeks have been…challenging… However, I have made some progress. The photo shows my fringe twisting set up. The shawls are in a bin so that I disturb them as little as possible. The…
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Fringes
I’m not a particular fan of fringes, but I know many people are so I had to work out an approach that I would feel comfortable about having on my textiles. For some things I will hem stitch, then cut the fringe ‘short’ (about 1″) after wet finishing. For other things, I will set up…
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Fringes
I’m not a particular fan of fringes, but I know many people are so I had to work out an approach that I would feel comfortable about having on my textiles. For some things I will hem stitch, then cut the fringe ‘short’ (about 1″) after wet finishing. For other things, I will set up…
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Comfort Zone
One of the benefits of working only from my stash is that I have to be bolder in my colour choices. Rayon chenille has been a wonderful yarn to force myself out of my comfort zone of colours that I prefer to work with. When I’m doing a scarf series using it, I tend to…
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Details
The colour of these shawls is more green than grey but apparently my ipad didn’t ‘read’ it that way. When I fringe twist, I don’t hemstitch on the loom. I just weave in ‘waste’ yarn to keep things in place until I can get the twisting done. After wet finishing, I then trim the frayed…
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Finished Fringe
And here is how the fringe looks after wet finishing and trimming. One box of yarn and half a dozen silk gimp shawls boxed up, ready to go to the post office. Crossing things off my to-be-done list, one at a time.
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Whittling Away the Pile
Energy levels are still low so I’ve been concentrating on low energy activities – spinning, getting inventory ready to ship, fringe twisting. Napping. I still have a mountain of twisting to do and a small hill of knotting on the silk gimp shawls to do, too. But I’ve got enough of the silk gimp shawls…
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Whittling Away the Pile
Energy levels are still low so I’ve been concentrating on low energy activities – spinning, getting inventory ready to ship, fringe twisting. Napping. I still have a mountain of twisting to do and a small hill of knotting on the silk gimp shawls to do, too. But I’ve got enough of the silk gimp shawls…
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A Pressing Matter
This afternoon I went up to the annex for a binge of pressing. The wet finishing mountain avalanched on Mizz B last time she came over so it was past time to start dealing with it. Besides which I haven’t been feeling well so hemming seems about the right speed these days. 🙁 I’m still…
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Afghan Progress
Sunday I started weaving on the afghans. With this warp it is essential to use a temple. I really wish I had rotary or ring temples when I’m weaving full width, and perhaps after Convergence I will. At least I’m hoping Fireside will be there so I can look at their temples. I hear a…