Category: scarf
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A Sense of Satisfaction
stack of scarves cut and serged, ready to be wet finished… There is always a certain sense of satisfaction when it is time to cut the proto-cloth from the loom and get it ready for wet finishing. Especially something like rayon chenille which changes so very dramatically after it has been wet finished. There is…
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Twinkle, Twinkle
Some motifs are easier to weave than others. A star, a simple little 5 pointed star, would I thought be easy-peasy. Not so. These ones look better on the ‘back’ of the cloth, which in reality will be the face of the cloth. But I wasn’t really very happy with them. They sort of look…
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Ideas
I intended to weave one of this design in turquoise, then had a brain cramp and started a second one. Which then ‘suffered’ a flaw which will no doubt make it a ‘second’. Oh well. Have been thinking about where ideas come from and how they come into material form. I have ideas. Lots of…
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The Big 6-0
extra special bd prezzie…long narrow knitted lace scarf in Sea Cell – thanks Sheila! George Carlin has a wonderful monologue about aging. He talks about the milestones along the road – the milestone resonating with me right now, about making it to 60. I grew up in the 50’s and 60’s when the watch word…
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Catching Up
If you’ve been reading my blog for a while you might recognize this fabric. It is one of a series of afghans (throws) that I wove late last year, just as my health appeared to be heading into a downward spiral. There were a few oopsies that needed to be fixed and quite frankly I…
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Next Warp
Started beaming the warps for the Diversified Plain Weave scarf run this morning. DPW is a weave structure that has a fat pattern thread and a fine tie down thread in the warp and the weft. Winding a warp with two such disparate grists can be a problem when one is putting on a long…
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Next Warp
Started beaming the warps for the Diversified Plain Weave scarf run this morning. DPW is a weave structure that has a fat pattern thread and a fine tie down thread in the warp and the weft. Winding a warp with two such disparate grists can be a problem when one is putting on a long…
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Next Warp
Started beaming the warps for the Diversified Plain Weave scarf run this morning. DPW is a weave structure that has a fat pattern thread and a fine tie down thread in the warp and the weft. Winding a warp with two such disparate grists can be a problem when one is putting on a long…
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Thoughts on Painted Warps
painted warp with mauve weft looking ahead at the colours to come Originally I’d pulled a brilliant turquoise to use as weft on this warp, but once I got it on the loom realized that the shades were too greyed to go with the pure almost cyan of the turquoise. Instead I used Kelp for…
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Another Grey Day
scene outside my window at 3 pm today We have not had what I would call a ‘good’ winter. Since the middle of January we have had far too many days where the temperature went above freezing during the day and below at night. What that means is that during the day everything melts making…