Category: rayon chenille
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End of the Line
See that rats nest of yarn in the foreground? I reached the end of my patience fighting with the rayon chenille yarn at the selvedge and as soon as I finished one scarf, cut the rest of the warp off. Life is too short to be fighting with yarn. It’s not a great loss…less…
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Working In Series
I like working in series. Yes, that means that I am doing essentially the same thing, over and over again, with minor tweaks. It means that once I have found a design I feel is working, in a general way, I can then begin making small changes in order to see how they affect the…
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Crunch Time
The first show of the season is this weekend. Doug is packing up all the inventory we have ready and I’m juggling the dry finishing with getting more woven. As usual I think I can do more than I really can. Guess at my advanced age I’m not about to learn that time is finite…
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Upping the Ante
With my health issues taking most of my time and energy lately, I confess my weaving has been…well, I had enough challenges on my plate. So I stuck to the tried and true, the stuff I didn’t have to think about much, that was pretty well ingrained in my thought processes. Sticking to what…
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Rayon Chenille Re-visited
Back around the turn of this century (my, do I feel old saying that!) I wove a bazillion rayon chenille scarves until, frankly, I was pretty sick of them. They were a good thing to do at that time. Each warp was five meters resulting in two scarves. In order to weave them quickly…
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Racing
With deadlines for shows rapidly approaching, I feel like I’m racing towards a finish line. I’m so low on rayon chenille scarves that I am trying really hard to get a bunch woven, even at the expense of doing some other stuff that doesn’t much appeal to me. I am being aided and abetted…
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Optimistic
A friendly elf came yesterday and wound some rayon chenille warps for me. Even better, she says she will come back on Saturday. So I had to pull some more colour combinations… Since I’m leaving for a 12 day trip next week, and the show season begins the week after I get back, perhaps I…
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Before and After
Before Colours are not true. More green than blue. After wet finishing. The variegated yarn is acrylic, not rayon so it doesn’t feel as nice as all rayon. Plus the acrylic didn’t shrink so it seersuckered, but I expected that and, because it is consistent, it’s a design feature.
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Fuzzy
I have been very low on rayon chenille scarves for the past couple of years and this year after all was said and done, there were just three scarves left. I could have sold a lot more if I’d had more, and since I still have significant inventory of rayon chenille, I’m revisiting them. Actually…
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Fuzzy
I have been very low on rayon chenille scarves for the past couple of years and this year after all was said and done, there were just three scarves left. I could have sold a lot more if I’d had more, and since I still have significant inventory of rayon chenille, I’m revisiting them. Actually…