Category: rigid heddle loom
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New Spinners
Yesterday two new spinners/weavers came over to look at the Ashland Bay spinning fibres. I’d met them the evening before at the guild drop-in where they were working on their inkle looms weaving tapes and/or spinning on drop spindles. 🙂 One of the local spinners/weavers has been giving classes at the SCA group and has…
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Moon Dance, Anyone?
I got the wardrobe….. This morning, rather early (for me and Doug, that is) I went to the hospital Cast Room and got the staples removed from the incisions, an x-ray taken to check on healing and then got outfitted with a ‘moon boot’. Didn’t ask how much the boot cost – didn’t want to…
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Scarf A Day
Scarf number 1 (orange) and Scarf number 2 (blue – on loom) One of the blogs I follow is Janet D’s: Scarf A Day: Everything Old is New Again [Scarf #42] She essentially challenged her readers to join her in her Scarf A Day goals. So today became a Scarf Day for me, too. 🙂…
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Taming the Rigid Heddle Loom – Maybe!
rough sleying the rigid heddle reed – just like I do ‘ordinary’ reeds for floor loomsbeaming the same way I do a floor loom – vinyl wallpaper warp packing threading the heddle – the cross was transferred behind the heddle for threading weaving commences – notice weft is wound onto the shuttle by figure 8’s…
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Ashford Rigid Heddle Loom
Picked up my new Ashford Rigid Heddle loom last night and decided that, even though I have no time whatsoever to get it assembled and try it out right now, to at least open the box. I’m glad I did because I wanted two each of the heddles, but didn’t make myself clear when I…
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The Yarn Harlot
I first heard about The Yarn Harlot (Stephanie Pearl-McPhee) in 2003, but – not being much involved in the knitting world – didn’t pursue the comments made by fervent knitting friends. 🙂 Thursday we went to Weaving Works in Seattle so that I could buy a pair of knitting needles. (I suspected I was about…
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On Re-Discovering Plain Weave
….or the joy of being able to weave without thinking…. A few weeks ago a friend asked if I had any of my painted warp scarves woven in plain weave that she could use to illustrate an article she was writing. (Hi Tien!) I didn’t, but assured her that I could and set about dressing…