Category: place mats
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Equipment Modifications
Jean asked for more info on the modification to the AVL tension box. Remember that cutting the top off the reed will weaken it and leave sharp pointy bits that will scratch unwary arms and hands. The top photo shows the gate partially open. Doug made a wire that pivots on the closed side of…
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Spring Green
The flash on the camera kind of washed this warp of colour. The light yarn in the warp is a bright spring green which I’ve also used in the weft bundle and in which it doesn’t really show at all. However, I think the colour combination will go quite nicely with the pottery glaze called…
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A Special Day
next pt placemat warp May 9 has been a special day for us for a long time. Today marks our 40th anniversary (ruby according to my mother, which is also my birthstone). It is also the second anniversary of my angioplasty and while the road to health still seems to have some bumps to overcome,…
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Of Setbacks and Silver Linings
This the the view from my living room window for the next month. 🙂 After living in this house since 1975, we are finally (finally!) replacing the orange shag carpet in the lr/dr!!! The storage bin was delivered yesterday and I’m hoping Doug will start moving boxes out there soon so we can carry on…
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Of Setbacks and Silver Linings
This the the view from my living room window for the next month. 🙂 After living in this house since 1975, we are finally (finally!) replacing the orange shag carpet in the lr/dr!!! The storage bin was delivered yesterday and I’m hoping Doug will start moving boxes out there soon so we can carry on…
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Small Victories
Next placemat warp. This one is one end of yellow, one end of a pale orange for the warp. The weft is a bundle of 1 orange, 1 yellow, 1 ivory and 2 ivory slub. It looks much prettier in person. 🙂 One of the things I’ve learned the past 8 weeks is that recovery…
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Necessity
One of the challenges when one is using up stash is that at times there might not be quite enough of the yarn/colour needed to complete a warp. :} Once this lovely pale blue and lavender warp was wound, I looked at what was left over and decided there wasn’t enough of the pale blue…
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Fruit Salad
This warp has a little bit of everything in it. 🙂 These are the yarns from the pastel colour gamp kit, all mixed up, a little bit like fruit salad. On the other hand, it’s a nice, spring-like colour combination, and I’m enjoying weaving on it very much. The weft is a fine cotton slub,…
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Rolling Along
I kind of surprised myself last night when I managed to dress the loom all by myself – and the help of the various systems I’ve put in place over the years. I doubt I could have accomplished it at all without the warping valet. 🙂 It truly is the most forgiving of helping hands…
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More Progress – sloowly, slooowly
After having a good wallow in my disappointment yesterday, I woke up this morning (having had 7 hours of sleep – hooray!) determined to surrender to what is, instead of struggling with what isn’t…. A friend who is an RN commented that I needed to toughen the tender bones, so once I was dressed this…