Category: sectional beaming
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Fiddling
spool rack set up – this is one half of the rack I had no intention to do two posts today, yet, here I am… When I did the class on sectional beaming for Sweet Georgia I recommended that people put the yarn on the spool rack using the bottom row of pegs first…
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Sectional Beaming
As usual, there are so many subtleties in weaving that one SOS student needed to see how the beginning of the warp would look like. I thought it might prove more helpful to see the end of the warp in order that they could see how the sections were all consistently lined up. The…
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Launch Day!
Tomorrow the Sectional Beaming class on School of Sweet Georgia is set to launch. This class was particularly challenging because I didn’t want to just show the process, but to include information on how to use the equipment in ‘interesting’ ways, including how to beam an ‘ordinary’ warp wound on a board or mill. …
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First Snow
winter solstice last year As we settle into winter, the sun continues it’s journey southwards and soon enough the snow will not be a scattering of flakes on the ground, but an accumulation. There have been many ‘things’ happening chez nous, many of them with an element of stress about them. But life is…
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Flexible
books waiting to be mailed (photo from earlier this year) It’s a bit…fun…self-publishing your own books. Not only do you get to write the thing in the first place, guide it through publication with the assistance (if you are wise) of an editor, you then get to market it. During the ‘birth’ process there…
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Launch Date
Got word today that the Sectional Beaming class will launch on Nov. 9, 2023. This class is for people who are beyond beginner level, and want to up their game, maybe beam longer warps, do some ‘production’ weaving, maybe weave yardage or towels for everyone in the family for Christmas, or play around with…
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Looming Deadlines
tension box top view tension box side view – extra dowels for additional tension The past month has been…challenging…but hopefully things will start to get ‘better’ now, instead of the constant slide downwards. It appears that the pain I’ve been experiencing is not so much the damaged disc as it is the SI joint,…
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Far From Ideal
I wasn’t entirely happy with how the 2/20 warps were weaving off. I knew when I started on them that I was pushing the boundaries of ‘ideal’ or ‘best’ practice, and frankly? If I’d only been doing one warp I would have simply gritted my teeth and done it, dusted my hands and moved…
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Another Sunday
I’m coming down to the wire on the latest warp with just one towel left to weave. I’ve been beaming sectionally for a very long time but when you push past the ‘ideal’ sometimes? Things don’t go smoothly. So it is with my stash reduction efforts. I’ve been setting up my spool rack to…
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Sectional Beaming
circumference of the empty beam: 14.25″ The arrow shows where ‘zero’ is on the tape measure, and therefore the circumference of the beam circumference of beam with 60 layers of warp: 16.5 Since I am in the process of developing a new class for School of Sweet Georgia I have been paying a great deal…