Category: scarf
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Deceptive
Variegated warp with natural beige soy protein as weft – the photo isn’t true to life in terms of colour – the yellow is actually a pale orange, the red a scarlet Often I will hear (or see written in chat groups) a new weaver confidently state that they are going to start with some…
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Guaranteed Results
Weavers sometimes ask me if I don’t get bored weaving the ‘same’ thing over and over again. I can honestly say I don’t. It was, in fact, the one attribute that allowed me to know that I could be a production weaver. I knew I could work hard – that indeed, I liked the physicality…
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Tour de France
The warp is more green in real life – this photo looks very blue The other day I did something I’ve never done before – sat and watched the Tour de France with some friends. The show had an interesting graphic that showed the elevations of the route for the day and I thought about…
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Happy Place
With molehills masquerading as mountains this week, the hurdles I encountered as I set to work this morning turned into complete roadblocks and instead of doing something productive on A Good Yarn, I went to my ‘happy place’ and wove a scarf. Thankfully I’d dressed the loom last night including winding the bobbins so all…
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One Step At A Time
Today I got the stapling ‘station’ set up and stapled 50 of one of the samples. And then realized as I was putting that bucket away that I’d forgotten to staple the yarn samples to the page, too. And then discovered that the yarn samples for the second sample I’d selected are not cut apart…
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Four At Once
winding four ends at once… Winding four ends at once is definitely possible but I don’t find it particularly faster. Which would seem counter intuitive – if winding two ends at a time is twice as fast as winding one at a time, winding four ought to be four times faster, right? Welllllll. Possibly. What…
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This and That
preparing the samples Today I stapled one set of each sample – of those that were ready – so that I could lay them out. To my mind the samples should be visually appealing but the sequence also needs to make some sort of technical sense as well. What I decided on was to lay…
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Seriously
last rep warp cut off and being serged in preparation for wet finishing sometime next week – still have to finish sewing the fringe on four sides samples… There is a poster going round Face Book which says something to the effect that if you are working at home you are not considered to be…
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On The Other Hand
before samples, taped and ready to be cut apart using my electric rotary cutter One of the joys of being self-employed doing something you love is that, well, you love what you’re doing. Most of the time. 😉 On the other hand, when life tosses curve balls at you, there is no one to…
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Still ‘Finishing’
Still making like a slug and very slow moving but I am managing to just stay on top of what needs to be done. :} Today I had lunch with a weaving buddy. So nice to get out and about and catch up with someone I see only occasionally. Then errands – mail a parcel,…