Category: Scarves
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Making Choices
Now that I have decided on a quality of cloth, it is time to start building a ‘line’ of scarves. There are three other variegated colour ways of the Skinny Majesty so my line will be built around those colours. To that end, each two scarf warp will have the variegated yarn along with a…
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A Change of Mind
There is a meme on Facebook going around that says something to the effect that we should not stick with a mistake just because we took a long time making it… So I changed my mind about what I was doing in regards to a new scarf design and put this warp on the loom…
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Plan B
After deciding I was happy enough with the cloth I wet finished yesterday, today I started digging through the yarn boxes to choose colours for warps. And discovered that not all of the rayon yarn was the same grist. I couldn’t combine them without adjusting epi so I started looking at what else I had…
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A Little Cheating
I’m sure the photo below looks very, very ‘wrong’. All those crossed threads! Goes against everything most people have been told about good practice. Thing is, if you know and understand your materials, you know just how far you can bend the rules and still get the results you desire. Now everyone knows I’m all…
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Upping the Ante
With my health issues taking most of my time and energy lately, I confess my weaving has been…well, I had enough challenges on my plate. So I stuck to the tried and true, the stuff I didn’t have to think about much, that was pretty well ingrained in my thought processes. Sticking to what…
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Rayon Chenille Re-visited
Back around the turn of this century (my, do I feel old saying that!) I wove a bazillion rayon chenille scarves until, frankly, I was pretty sick of them. They were a good thing to do at that time. Each warp was five meters resulting in two scarves. In order to weave them quickly…
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Racing
With deadlines for shows rapidly approaching, I feel like I’m racing towards a finish line. I’m so low on rayon chenille scarves that I am trying really hard to get a bunch woven, even at the expense of doing some other stuff that doesn’t much appeal to me. I am being aided and abetted…
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Before and After
Before Colours are not true. More green than blue. After wet finishing. The variegated yarn is acrylic, not rayon so it doesn’t feel as nice as all rayon. Plus the acrylic didn’t shrink so it seersuckered, but I expected that and, because it is consistent, it’s a design feature.
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