Category: Handwoven
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One Armed Paper Hanger
darker areas are shadow from the lights behind me I am beginning to feel like a one armed paper hanger as the clock ticks down on the many things I’ve got going right now. I have to be very mindful of the deadlines – the soft ones – and the very hard ones. If I…
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Colour! Give Me Colour!
showing the hem and towel body Over the years I have discovered that I am very much affected by the seasons – probably have a low grade SAD condition. February was always the worst month for me and I assumed the ancients knew what they were about when they made it the shortest one! The…
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Taking Care of the Details
Yesterday was all about me – maintaining me in several ways. Today I have been buzzing around trying to tie up loose ends. With a very busy 3 weeks (or more) still to get through it would be easy to let little things fall through the cracks. My goal of having a representative selection of…
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Scarcity
Finished the tomato warp this morning and wound the next one – a mixture of browns, golds and sage greens along with Carob brown Bambu 7. I had purposely let my inventory of Bambu 7 dwindle, thinking I was done using it in production so when I went to put together the yarns to complement…
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Plodding
It took Doug all day yesterday to carefully fold and pack all the inventory we had in the store room. Although we don’t need it all for the first show, which is really quite a small show comparatively speaking, once we load up the van it won’t be unloaded again except for when we are actually doing…
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Friday Activities
weaving the cloth with the back side up – it’s VERY red! working on the Handwoven article This morning I finished threading the scarlet warp, ran to town to pick up the parcel with the yarns for the Handwoven article, started sleying and had lunch. After lunch I visited with my neighbour, finished sleying, tied…
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Additional Thoughts on Samples
Realized that I had a few more thoughts on samples that I wanted to share. The photo above shows the issue of Hand Woven that the Harrisville yarn samples are in, and one of the several sets of samples I wove for it. I will have them with me at ABQ and the tour in…
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Making Choices
I’m in a rambling frame of mind with thoughts loosely connected – perhaps I can weave a complete post from them…. The next issue of Handwoven is sliding through mail slots, but I haven’t yet received mine. However I have seen the galley proofs, and know that they didn’t use all of the photos I…
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Playing Hookey
The THUD you may have heard last week was me falling off the energy wagon. For the past couple of months I have been feeling more and more exhausted, which I attributed to a hectic travel/teaching schedule, poor sleep, what have you. May 4th, when the specialist confirmed my suspicions I felt myself teeter, and…
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Handwoven
The January/February Handwoven arrived today. My article on fulling Harrisville yarn is on page 24/25. I also have the Endnotes essay on the last page. 😀 For anyone interested, there is a video clip on my web site showing one way of fulling by hand. Go to http://laurafry.com then click on Store and CDWeaver. The…