Category: place mats
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Pick One – Any One
Decided that I’d better hoist myself up out of my chair and get started on something – any thing – so picked something that didn’t require any thinking at all – an all white place mat warp. The trampoline I borrowed is to the right of the photo. When I want to use it I…
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Changing My Mind
I wasn’t terribly happy about combining the plum with the greens and a quick rummage through the stash revealed a lighter greyed plum that will look much better, as far as I’m concerned. So this combo is next in the queue for the small loom – as soon as I thread/sley/tie on/weave the lace sample…
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Changing My Mind
I wasn’t terribly happy about combining the plum with the greens and a quick rummage through the stash revealed a lighter greyed plum that will look much better, as far as I’m concerned. So this combo is next in the queue for the small loom – as soon as I thread/sley/tie on/weave the lace sample…
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When Things Go Wrong
Got about half of the warp woven this morning and everything is fine. It’s not ‘perfect’ – but then what in life is? I have always been the kind of person who when things go wrong looks for a solution. This has been particularly valuable in terms of weaving because, quite frankly, things are all too…
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Dangerous Distractions
We all know (or should) that driving while distracted is dangerous. Turns out trying to dress the loom while distracted is also dangerous. I found myself this afternoon fighting procrastination plus a high level of distraction while dressing the loom with the next place mat warp. With 2/3’s of the warp beamed, I had a moment…
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Making Progress
Place mat warp with two of the colours from the towel warp – the greyed blue and greyed green I’m enjoying the blue green warp on the AVL so much and, since I have yarn left over on the tubes after beaming that warp sectionally, I decided to do some blue/green place mats, too. This…
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It’s Okay, But….
greyed plum warp with natural weft next plum warp will try some green… Started weaving the plum warp today and it’s okay but a little bland. I had been thinking of adding some grey to the plum but decided that I’d go with a darker greyed green instead. That should add some depth and visual…
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Back to ‘Routine’ – sort of
My warping ‘station’ – additional overhead lights for this somewhat dim studio space. Notice that I tie the cross on the four ‘arms’ of the X not at the waist. Choke tie is about 1 yard away from the cross. On this 9 meter long warp there are: 1 choke tie (near cross), 1 counting…
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Thought Squirrels
Normally when I sit down to blog I know pretty much exactly what I’m going to say. Not today. Today my thoughts have been flitting through my brain like squirrels, here, there, everywhere. Today started out quite normally – for what passes for normal around here lately. But then a flurry of things happened and…
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This ‘n That
This is the corner where my electric bobbin winder is set up. For the mat weft I’m using 4 strands of cotton – 2 strands of 2/8 natural, one boucle and one thick and thin. Any ‘bubbles’ that develop from winding the four strands at once hide within the cloth and just look like more…