Category: rayon chenille
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Fear of Colour
scarf #2 When I began weaving lo, these many years ago, I was interested in weave structure as the primary element of design. I would joke that my favourite colour was white. White on white, to be precise! I loved the look of damask, but of course without a drawloom that was a bit of…
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Fear of Colour
scarf #2 When I began weaving lo, these many years ago, I was interested in weave structure as the primary element of design. I would joke that my favourite colour was white. White on white, to be precise! I loved the look of damask, but of course without a drawloom that was a bit of…
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Get Up and Go
Leclerc skein winder for winding yarn for quills – and a couple of proto placemat warps in amongst the rubble For the past few months I have been ‘suffering’ from a serious lack of get up and go. I’ve been blaming this lack of energy on a whole list of things – the unremitting stress…
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The Dangers of Distraction
Kerstin has been blogging about the dangers of distraction and not using one’s brain here: http://3.ly/kqh Today I found myself subject to the same sense of distraction while beaming another rayon chenille warp. I find I really do get much better tension if I use the warping valet, so even though they are just a…
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New Design
New chenille warp, new scarf design And that’s as much as I’m going to share of that one. 🙂 After months of feeling as though I was in the creative doldrums, I now have two solid new designs that I’m going to be putting into production. Both are rayon chenille, and both will – hopefully…
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More Plain Weave
Plain weave again Funny how I seem to get into a groove and can’t get out of it again, but here I am with another 4 warps destined to be woven in plain weave. Each warp is 4 yards long for one scarf. While in Kelowna on my last trip, I spent a couple of…
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Guest Post – Katie
My name is Katie Rivas and I met Laura Fry in January ’09 while taking a class she did for my weaving guild in Southern California. I liked Laura off the bat and even though the class was round-robin, I spent way more time asking Laura about a million questions I had stored up regarding…
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Guest Post – Katie
My name is Katie Rivas and I met Laura Fry in January ’09 while taking a class she did for my weaving guild in Southern California. I liked Laura off the bat and even though the class was round-robin, I spent way more time asking Laura about a million questions I had stored up regarding…
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Guest Post – Katie
My name is Katie Rivas and I met Laura Fry in January ’09 while taking a class she did for my weaving guild in Southern California. I liked Laura off the bat and even though the class was round-robin, I spent way more time asking Laura about a million questions I had stored up regarding…
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Cold Remedy
Not sure how this raucous variegated got into my stash – lime green isn’t one of my fav colours, after all – but it was time to use it up. The rust red weft seems to be taming it quite nicely. After 5 days of languishing I was getting antsy. My cold has settled into…