Category: scarf
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Going, Going…..
…and soon to be gone – hopefully! Over the past few weeks I’ve been worrying away at the piles (mountains!) of finishing that need to be done. There is now one huge (or two smaller) stacks of shawls and scarves that are done to the point of needing their hang/care tags and prices. I also…
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Piling Up
As warned my energy levels are dipping lower and taking longer to come back after each cycle, but I’m officially 3/4’s of the way through this challenge and the end is in sight, espcially since there will be no more delays. I’ve got the vials from the pharmacy and I begin the injections on Sunday to…
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Perfect or Good?
Turns out some of the 2/30 silk I have on hand has already been used for other projects I guess because several of the colours I’d hoped to use on this warp are insufficient for a scarf. Oh well. More yarn to go into the bobbin lace bag. It seems as though at times people get…
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Perfect or Good?
Turns out some of the 2/30 silk I have on hand has already been used for other projects I guess because several of the colours I’d hoped to use on this warp are insufficient for a scarf. Oh well. More yarn to go into the bobbin lace bag. It seems as though at times people get…
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Perfect or Good?
Turns out some of the 2/30 silk I have on hand has already been used for other projects I guess because several of the colours I’d hoped to use on this warp are insufficient for a scarf. Oh well. More yarn to go into the bobbin lace bag. It seems as though at times people get…
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Wherein I Take Another Stab at the Stash
The baby wraps were not particularly hard or difficult to weave but since the loom was giving me the fits during the weaving of both 30 yard warps I’d pretty much had it with 2/20 mercerized cotton warps and fly shuttles. For a while at least. Not to mention I really need to continue to…
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A Wee Gift
While in Quebec, I (of course!) took a trip through the vendors. There was one booth that had textiles imported from India. A lot of collapse weaves using lycra, but also this scarf. I hope you can see how diaphanous it is. The warp is black with discontinuous thicker white threads. I need a new…
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Admin Work is Also Work
This afternoon I’ve just invested about 2 hours in uploading information on the Diversified Plain Weave scarves to my Art Fire store, then creating a ‘collection’. http://LauraFry.artfire.com Collections are a new sales tool Art Fire recently introduced and until now I haven’t had sufficient inventory to create one. You need a minimum of 12 items…
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“Sample” Is Not a 4 Letter Word
Colour gamp in saturated colours, twill and plain weaveColour gamp in ‘neutrals’, plain weave So many weavers comment that they hate making samples, or they don’t have enough yarn/time to make a sample. In my universe samples are how I learn. They are equivalent to a potter firing hundreds of chips to test their glazes,…
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My Friend – The Deadline
Scarf #1 – dark burgundy weft Scarf #2 – medium red weft Since returning home on Thursday I’ve had very little energy. Blame long very fast trip (600 or so miles each way with show set up one day and guild program the next), dreary weather and – sigh – lack of critical deadlines. What…