Category: place mats
-
Seeing Red
Got the placemat warp woven and wet finished. While the washer was running I decided to beam a painted silk warp. I had a bunch of these silk boucle warps painted, but have never been 100% happy with my results. After mulling it over for a rather long time I decided to change my approach…
-
Playing Hookey
The THUD you may have heard last week was me falling off the energy wagon. For the past couple of months I have been feeling more and more exhausted, which I attributed to a hectic travel/teaching schedule, poor sleep, what have you. May 4th, when the specialist confirmed my suspicions I felt myself teeter, and…
-
Stash Reduction Continues
After dinner I went back down to the loom and used up another cone weaving a couple of table runners. Then I started in on some more yarns, bundling them together to make a nice thick weft yarn for place mats. In this photo you can just see the table runner turning round the breast…
-
No Weaving Today
Looks like there will be no weaving for me today. The morning was spent getting the place mats and runners I pressed yesterday trimmed, tagged, priced, inventoried and delivered to the local consignment shop. (I also swung by the local book shop to buy Doug some Christmas presents.) 🙂 This afternoon I updated the Gamps…
-
One More Place Mat Warp
This will be the last placemat warp for a while. I’ve got new yarns I need to sample and incorporate into the up coming workshops. This warp is another doubled 2/8 cotton – one beige, one peach – threaded point twill and woven in point twill progression. I finished off the thick textured yarn (yippee!)…
-
All Dressed Up
…and ready to go. Here are the placemats from the blue/grey warp tagged, ready to be priced, inventoried and delivered to the local consignment shop. What many people don’t realize is how much time ‘finishing’ a product takes. They don’t understand that when you cut the web from the loom, it isn’t yet ready to…
-
Progress
Whoo-hoo! Another cone of yarn used up! 😀 There is still warp left, so dug through the store room and came up with 3 different cotton yarns. One is a slub, one is a highly textured ‘gimp’, and the third is – well, textured. So I combined the slub and the gimp and changed the…
-
Progress
Whoo-hoo! Another cone of yarn used up! 😀 There is still warp left, so dug through the store room and came up with 3 different cotton yarns. One is a slub, one is a highly textured ‘gimp’, and the third is – well, textured. So I combined the slub and the gimp and changed the…
-
Progress
Whoo-hoo! Another cone of yarn used up! 😀 There is still warp left, so dug through the store room and came up with 3 different cotton yarns. One is a slub, one is a highly textured ‘gimp’, and the third is – well, textured. So I combined the slub and the gimp and changed the…
-
Blue/Grey Place Mats
Here is the blue/grey warp with the doubled cotton/linen/rayon weft. You may notice that the twill line is not the ideal 45 degrees. This is where my adage “If you can’t be perfect, be consistent” comes in. I wanted this fabric to be thick, so the fact that it is slightly weft-faced is actually A…