Category: scarf
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Studio Fair
So this is as far as we got before I caved. Until the overhead lights are off we can’t set our own lighting and it’s hard to know just how it will look with the nasty hall lights killing the colours. What I didn’t quite catch in the photo was….see the catering guy in the…
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A Rebel Born
As a kid growing up, there were all sorts of dress ‘codes’ that were strictly adhered to. There were certain colours you just never, ever wore together. Red heads never wore pink. You never wore white shoes after Labour Day or before Victoria Day. Or maybe that was Easter. Your hand bag and shoes had…
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Measuring Progress
some of the scarves woven since Tuesday last week – still need to be fringe twisted and wet finished One of the ways I measure productivity is by crossing things off a list of jobs to be done. Unfortunately when one item on the current list reads “Weave 36 scarf warps” it takes a rather…
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Lemons
One of the things I am trying to do with these painted warps is to use up odds and sods of yarn in my stash. When I came to this warp I decided I’d use up a medium brown Bambu 12, positive that there would be sufficient to weave a scarf. No such luck. 🙁…
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Attention to Detail
before and after trimming Doug did some more pressing yesterday and last night I began the final step in bringing my scarves to, in my opinion, saleable condition. You don’t have to do as I do. Trimming the wispy bits off the ends of the fringe is purely a personal choice kind of thing. A…
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Yum
Scarf 9 (beginning of warp #3) showing some of the colours in the warp – again much nicer in person ‘padding’ the cloth beam Finished the second warp this morning and got the next one on the loom this afternoon. Since the yarn is rayon, and rayon can be fairly slippery, I’m lashing on rather…
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Subtleties
scarf #5 – the first on the second painted warp My camera doesn’t seem capable of capturing the subtleties of colour in the cloth. This glimpse may give you an idea of some of the shades of colour…. Hand weavers in North America are not just competing against each other when they try to sell…
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And Away We Go…
The shorter of the two warps going onto the loom using my trusty warping valet Beginning to weave – weft here is Bambu 7 Wine. The warp was threaded in a straight draw and is being woven in a point progression. The weft is actually somewhat darker in life than shows in the photo. Too…
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Painted Warps
I have been anxiously waiting for the arrival of these two painted warps and this afternoon they came. 🙂 Now to decide exactly how I will weave them. The Leclerc Fanny is empty right now so obviously one of these warps will go onto that loom – I want to test the yarns and density…
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It’s All Relative
I’m so used to beaming ‘long’ warps (10+ yards) that these relatively short warps (5.6 meters) seem to zip onto the beam in no time at all. Since I’ve worked a lot with variegated yarns I decided to submit an article to Handwoven about how I use them. The challenge, of course, is that they…