Category: painted warps
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RED!
Yesterday I was very, um, distracted. I kept changing my mind about what I would work on ‘next’ instead of focusing on what I am working on ‘now’. And that is this lovely, very red, painted scarf warp. I am very affected by colours and today this red is really appealing. But I also have…
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Numbers Game
Keeping track of numbers is how we access our progress. I guess I’m a little OCD because I count stuff. I count picks, steps (especially now I have Fitbit!), scarves woven, fringed, wet finished. Today I wove scarf #161 since May. The dyer has three more warps to return in addition to the three I…
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A Rebel Born
As a kid growing up, there were all sorts of dress ‘codes’ that were strictly adhered to. There were certain colours you just never, ever wore together. Red heads never wore pink. You never wore white shoes after Labour Day or before Victoria Day. Or maybe that was Easter. Your hand bag and shoes had…
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Measuring Progress
some of the scarves woven since Tuesday last week – still need to be fringe twisted and wet finished One of the ways I measure productivity is by crossing things off a list of jobs to be done. Unfortunately when one item on the current list reads “Weave 36 scarf warps” it takes a rather…
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Lemons
One of the things I am trying to do with these painted warps is to use up odds and sods of yarn in my stash. When I came to this warp I decided I’d use up a medium brown Bambu 12, positive that there would be sufficient to weave a scarf. No such luck. 🙁…
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Attention to Detail
before and after trimming Doug did some more pressing yesterday and last night I began the final step in bringing my scarves to, in my opinion, saleable condition. You don’t have to do as I do. Trimming the wispy bits off the ends of the fringe is purely a personal choice kind of thing. A…
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Complementary
I think this photo shows off the iridescence in scarf #83 quite well. As usual, click to biggify. One of the ways to get iridescence is to cross the warp with a complementary colour – in this case a red violet weft on a mostly turquoise blue/green warp. This is one of the ‘test’ colours…
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Complementary
I think this photo shows off the iridescence in scarf #83 quite well. As usual, click to biggify. One of the ways to get iridescence is to cross the warp with a complementary colour – in this case a red violet weft on a mostly turquoise blue/green warp. This is one of the ‘test’ colours…
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Thought Squirrels
Once again the camera can’t capture the subtleties of the colours in the warp. You’ll just have to try to see them in person? 🙂 Click on the photo to biggify…. When things are going smoothly and only surface attention is required for the actual weaving the thought squirrels sometimes start chasing themselves around in…
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Elephant on the Menu
box of warps box of weft next warp being beamed It may have been Thomas Edison who is credited with the saying that creativity is 1% inspiration, 99% perspiration. I’m at that stage now where it is eat-the-elephant. Once scarf, one warp, working up the perspiration in order to get as many of the painted…