Category: place mats
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Progress – of a sort….
Well the good news is that I was able to weave two placemats on the Fanny loom. The weft is a bundle of 2/8 cotton, cotton slub and a fairly fine cotton boucle’ woven in broken twill. The bad news is that I’m not nearly as mobile as I was expecting to be. 🙁 Saw…
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2/3’s
There are a lot of 2/3’s in my life right now. Fer instance – the bookmark is 1/3rd done, so there are 2/3’s left to finish it. But far more important to me right now is that I am 2/3’s the way through the 6 week non-weight bearing portion of my recovery. It has become…
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Back to Scarves
back to scarves and plain weave…. Finished the 11 meters (actually 10, I cut the warp off sooner ’cause I ran out of weft!) this afternoon then dressed the loom with a 10 meter painted warp. The warp is a mixture of soy protein fibre and Tencel about a 5/2 grist, set at 20 and…
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Once More – Mats
Spent most of the afternoon pressing, but did manage to get another placemat warp on the loom. Wasn’t sure about the choice for hem colour so I wove a header with the hem weft, then an inch with the weft for the mat body. It looked okay, so I’ve gone ahead and wound bobbins so…
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Harvest Cloth
next placemat warp One of the advantages of participating in a show like the Seattle Weavers Guild is that I don’t need to pay as much attention to the development of a line as I do when I’m exhibiting only in my own booth space. I can go ahead and do colours that won’t necessarily…
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White Place Mats
I know this picture is dark – I wanted to show the texture of the cloth and the flash just wiped that out. So this picture shows the end of one mat, the hem with cutting line and the beginning of the next mat. The set up is identical to the red mats but the…
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Placemats part II
Second colour/yarn comboThree yarns bundled together to make up the weft It was so much fun weaving up the placemats I just kept on going until the cone of soft red cotton was all used up. I have no idea how many place mats are on the beam – when I got down to not-enough-bobbins-to-weave-two-placemats…
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Heading Towards Placemats
starting the placemats So of all the choices of activities at my disposal today, getting that placemat warp started was the most appealing. This is pretty typical of how I begin most warps. After tying on I weave a few picks of – generally – plain weave, then twill, checking for threading/sleying errors. I find…
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Heading Towards Placemats
starting the placemats So of all the choices of activities at my disposal today, getting that placemat warp started was the most appealing. This is pretty typical of how I begin most warps. After tying on I weave a few picks of – generally – plain weave, then twill, checking for threading/sleying errors. I find…
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Heading Towards Placemats
starting the placemats So of all the choices of activities at my disposal today, getting that placemat warp started was the most appealing. This is pretty typical of how I begin most warps. After tying on I weave a few picks of – generally – plain weave, then twill, checking for threading/sleying errors. I find…