Category: rayon chenille
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Instant Gratification
I confess that the past few weeks or so I’ve been having difficulty staying on focus and doing everything that needs to be done. The job list made up with such good intentions a while ago has been largely ignored recently and I find myself constantly heading to the Fanny loom, the rayon chenille, the…
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Moving Onwards
It was only when I started to write this post that I realized I had taken a nearly identical picture for the blog only a few weeks ago! I cut the Diversified Plain Weave afghans off the loom this morning and started beaming a shawl warp. The warp is made by dressing two scarf warps…
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Birthday
Yes, it’s that day. 🙂 And how better than to spend it weaving? The back of the loom is looking a little tatty as I ‘suffered’ a couple of broken ends. Using Kerstin’s suggestion of running the repair end alongside the broken one means I won’t have to do any needle weaving later. Anyone wh0…
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The Tally for the Day
Today I: wove a chenille scarf and finished the warp on the loomdressed the loom, wove two more scarvesdressed the loom, wove two more scarvesgot the next warp attached to the apron beam ready to beam tomorrowwound skeins to be dyed next warp – pretty! I also:read my bookhad coffee with the neighbour where we…
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Playing
Rayon chenille is notoriously hard to photograph, and especially so when there is little contrast in value of the colours. This photo shows the hem area and the beginning of afghan number 3. The pattern weft is a variegated lavender/grey. I’m really just playing with this warp – I have no idea if the rayon…
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Progressing
After years of trying to figure out how to make more space in our teensy tiny bathroom, we finally threw up our hands and decided to just do the needed repairs and update the facilities – new tub, toilet, basin and medicine cabinet. But before that could be done, Doug needed to remove the existing…
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Cloth Materializing
Got started weaving last night after fixing a threading error, and a tie-up error. It’s taking a while to get used to the rhythm – two picks of foundation, one pick of pattern. It feels unbalanced and erratic, which is only normal given the hop, hop, skip nature of throwing the two shuttles. 🙂 With…
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Doing the Same Old Thing
Got the next warp rough sleyed before dinner, then afterwards I beamed/threaded/sleyed and tied on. Since I’ve had issues of efficiency on my mind I did a quick time survey. The warp was beamed and threaded in under 30 minutes (10 inches at 16 epi, 5 meters long) and the sleying took 7 minutes. Tieing…
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The Efficient Weaver
These are the scarves I’ve woven since getting home Tuesday evening. I would have liked to see the pile a lot higher but I had several appointments (dentist/dr/etc) and other work that needed to be done (banking, skein winding, workshop prep – unpacking!) The truly amazing thing to me is that I’ve been off the…
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Into Chenille Mode
This variegated chenille is bordering on garish (to my taste) but calms down nicely with the dark purple weft. 🙂 I had two chenille scarf warps already wound before I left, so I got one of the warps dressed this afternoon, and just barely started weaving before I ran out of steam. I didn’t sleep…