Category: rayon yarn
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New Normal
It feels like my ‘normal’ for the past 10 years is trying to weave down my stash. So what’s new about that? Well, my energy levels, for one thing. One of the adverse effects of the cancer drug is to feel tired. Even on the lowest possible dose I feel tired all day long and…
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Choose One Thing
This summer has been challenging for a long list of reasons. We have been dealing with daily smoke, better or worse, for going on two weeks. I rather suspect that the smoke is getting to everyone. Nerves are getting frayed. Children and people with lung issues (or allergy to smoke) are being urged to stay…
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Warps in Waiting
Earlier today I wove a couple of tea towels, but as much as I would like to get that warp finished, I am also getting concerned about my other craft fair inventory. I’m very low on scarves, and since I have boxes and boxes of various kinds of rayon in my stash, I switched to…
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Two By Two
When it is feasible, I wind warps holding two threads. Winding two ends at a time means winding goes twice as quickly as winding one at a time. I prefer a 2 x 2 cross, especially when the yarns are textured, as in this warp. Textured yarns may tend to grab onto their neighbours and…
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Til It’s Done
Getting some of the book/inspirational projects finished this morning. The above is a pinwheel design on four shafts, woven from Tencel (a type of rayon). Rayon in general is a very dense fibre which holds a lot of water. As a result, when rayon is fully saturated it feels very stiff and not very appealing…
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A Change of Mind
There is a meme on Facebook going around that says something to the effect that we should not stick with a mistake just because we took a long time making it… So I changed my mind about what I was doing in regards to a new scarf design and put this warp on the loom…
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A Little Cheating
I’m sure the photo below looks very, very ‘wrong’. All those crossed threads! Goes against everything most people have been told about good practice. Thing is, if you know and understand your materials, you know just how far you can bend the rules and still get the results you desire. Now everyone knows I’m all…
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Day Two
overall look at the booth close up of painted rayon warp scarf close up of bamboo warp, Tencel weft shawl close up of bamboo warp, rayon weft shawl Since today was Hallowe’en, I figured it would be pretty slow after around 4 pm. And so it was. So I took some photos. I rarely…
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Change of Pace
In years past, I would scramble like a mad woman trying to get one more, one more, one more warp woven off in time for the shows. After 6 years of dealing with health issues (and the fatigue from the undiagnosed issues for several years before that) I think I am finally learning that there…
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Craftsy Blog
The latest Craftsy blog I wrote has been published here This weekend Cindy and I (and 10 other guild members) are attending a workshop being presented by Kim McKenna, learning about the new regenerated fibres. It’s been a while since I had done any spinning so I’m fumbling my way through the samples, mostly slippery…