Category: Scarves
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Stage ‘Fright’
next warp ready to go – two shades of blue, plus rose The coming week and week following are going to be personally stressful for me – in addition to the general malaise of the current events unfolding (pandemic, politics, the politics of the pandemic) I am also going to do my first (?…
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Potential
I’ve talked about my resources before, my ‘libraries’ of drafts that I can browse through, evaluate for their potential for being the ‘next’ warp in the queue. The one open is the latest, the draft I’m using being the one partially covered by the blue arrow. The booklet is called The Fanciest Twills by Irene…
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Potential
I’ve talked about my resources before, my ‘libraries’ of drafts that I can browse through, evaluate for their potential for being the ‘next’ warp in the queue. The one open is the latest, the draft I’m using being the one partially covered by the blue arrow. The booklet is called The Fanciest Twills by Irene…
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Potential
I’ve talked about my resources before, my ‘libraries’ of drafts that I can browse through, evaluate for their potential for being the ‘next’ warp in the queue. The one open is the latest, the draft I’m using being the one partially covered by the blue arrow. The booklet is called The Fanciest Twills by Irene…
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Next Step
One of the reasons for doing the craft fairs to finish out this year was to say goodbye, not just to fellow artisans, but my customers. To that end I posted the following message in my booth: FAREWELL! This is my last time participating in this show. I would like to say thank you for…
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Comfort Zone
One of the benefits of working only from my stash is that I have to be bolder in my colour choices. Rayon chenille has been a wonderful yarn to force myself out of my comfort zone of colours that I prefer to work with. When I’m doing a scarf series using it, I tend to…
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And Still Not Perfect
If you look really closely, over there on the right you might be able to see that four of the ends are not in the lease sticks. I was distracted today and nearly at the end of rough sleying, I took two pairs out of order. This meant they were ‘crossed’ and when it came…
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Dribs and Drabs
With inventory to make and stash to use up, I designed a new scarf to use some of my rayon chenille stash. So far it’s been a qualified success. These three shelves show the dribs and drabs of some of the solids that are left. What I’m not showing you is the other shelves that…
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Adjustment
So, I’m back working on those scarf warps I wound last year and thought about a comment someone made, somewhere, about whether or not you could manipulate yarns into their ‘proper’ place. Yes you can. Depending on the yarn, you can actually displace most (not all) yarns by up to about an inch. What does…
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New Normal
It feels like my ‘normal’ for the past 10 years is trying to weave down my stash. So what’s new about that? Well, my energy levels, for one thing. One of the adverse effects of the cancer drug is to feel tired. Even on the lowest possible dose I feel tired all day long and…