Category: place mats
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Counting Down the Days
With an estimate of ‘sometime in January’ for my surgery to happen, I’m starting to count down the days. As it is the 14th today, that means that I should hear from the surgeon’s office any time now and I’m beginning to look at what else I’d like to accomplish before I’m on weaving hiatus.…
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Next Step
Next step in the process. (background is a commercially woven throw with spinning motifs woven in double weave) After the weaving comes the wet finishing. Doug spent much of Sunday and Monday pressing. The table toppers are done as are a stack of place mats and table runners. Still more mats to be run through…
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Piling Up
Cut the table toppers off the loom this afternoon. There are five for my customer to choose from. From the far left, two 100% cotton woven in twill blocks, the rest are in plain weave – from the centre a cotton/linen blend weft, linen weft and 2/16 cotton weft. Not entirely happy with them –…
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Place Mat Progress
If you have been following along on my adventures, you might remember this post. Well, that pile of yarn now looks like this: Yes, this is all that is left as of today. I’ve already wound the warp for the cream and will wind two more shorter warps for the rose and green because there…
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Adapting
Sometimes Life Happens and Things Change. Or Need to be Changed. With my back taking so long to settle down I have had to radically change my expectations. Normally I would count my productivity in how many yards I weave in a day. Right now I have to count how many inches. Because 120″ sounds…
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The More Things Change…
…the more they stay the same. showing hem with woven in cut line – click photo to biggify Right now I’m doing a whole of the ‘same’ thing. With 50 yards on the AVL and a run of place mats happening on the Leclerc, there is a whole lot of same happening. And that is…
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The More Things Change…
…the more they stay the same. showing hem with woven in cut line – click photo to biggify Right now I’m doing a whole of the ‘same’ thing. With 50 yards on the AVL and a run of place mats happening on the Leclerc, there is a whole lot of same happening. And that is…
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Easy
next mat warp, beamed, lease sticks ready to be transferred behind the reed Dad had a phrase he used when he saw someone do something particularly skillful. It might be a man keeping 20 plates spinning on sticks on the Ed Sullivan show, the logger sports at the fall fair or the RCMP Musical Ride.…
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Queueing Up
So here is the queue of yarn to be used as weft for place mats. That big cone of blue/green? It’s nearly 5 pounds. The rose cone at the back? I used up 1 pound 4 ounces as weft on an 11 meter long warp. In other words, there is some serious weaving required to…
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Queueing Up
So here is the queue of yarn to be used as weft for place mats. That big cone of blue/green? It’s nearly 5 pounds. The rose cone at the back? I used up 1 pound 4 ounces as weft on an 11 meter long warp. In other words, there is some serious weaving required to…