Category: Leclerc Fanny
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Rode Hard…
…put away wet. My loom is approximately as old as I am. It was ‘rescued’ from an art centre where it had languished for a number of years, getting used for anything anyone else wanted to use it for – none of it related in any way to weaving. We drove to Alberta, through the…
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Eye of the Beholder
My Leclerc loom is a ‘rescue’ loom. It came with bumps, dents and dings along with some design issues that I needed modified. But I love my little loom, it is a true work horse and does almost everything I need it to do. To me it is beautiful because it works well and allows…
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Dating Fanny
the holes are from the new bumpers Doug attached to the outside of the castle to keep the beater farther away from the shafts… Fanny arrived in my studio after being ‘rescued’ from an arts centre. She had been used – and abused – and at the time I didn’t really think about her age…
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With a Little Care
From time to time someone will casually mention on a chat group that ‘you can’t weave unbalanced weave structures on a counter balanced loom’. Unfortunately they rarely qualify this statement to say that on a cb loom with horses you can weave anything you want to weave. The injunction is mainly aimed at cb looms…
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Cold Remedy
Not sure how this raucous variegated got into my stash – lime green isn’t one of my fav colours, after all – but it was time to use it up. The rust red weft seems to be taming it quite nicely. After 5 days of languishing I was getting antsy. My cold has settled into…
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Coaching Weaving
Having Syne come to the studio meant I spent some time analyzing what I do in order to try and come up with the language needed to convey the skills being shown. You can read about Syne’s perspective here: http://3.ly/B3x One of the things that new weavers don’t understand right away is that the relationship…
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Scarf #3
This morning I started weaving the third and last scarf on this warp, and wish I’d gone with the teal sooner! Oh well. The warp is off the loom, and now I’m wanting to work on something else – something other than the AVL – and not sure what to tackle. Maybe knitting on the…
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Seeing Red – Again
I seem to be having a red-fest. 🙂 In the past week I’ve woven a couple of red shawl warps on the AVL, a red shawl on the Fanny, a red chenille scarf warp today and am just now dressing the Fanny again with a black and red warp. 😉 Red – the colour of…
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I Love My Fanny!
Leclerc Fanny, that is! 🙂 Finished the warp on the loom this morning. Here’s a picture from the front. While I don’t recommend weaving this close to the reed generally, on this loom and with these yarns I can push beyond the ‘sweet spot’ in order to get the woven length I need. At this…