Category: shawls
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And Now Back To My Regular Programming…
Two shawls, one with red/purple Tencel for weft, one with teal Bambu 7I actually wove these shawls, lemme think – a year ago? More? But they have finally risen to the top of the wet finishing pile and are being readied for the upcoming shows. This warp was a stash reducing mixture of 20/2 merc.…
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*RED* Hot
Red Hot Shawl Tried to get a picture of the red scarf warp in the loom, but the colour gradations are too subtle and it just looked ‘red’ instead of red hot, like it looks on the loom. So instead I’m showing a photo of a painted warp shawl that I wet finished last week…
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Goin’ With the Flow
Sometimes things morph. The Plan for this warp was to weave some squares for shawls, fairly small ones at around 30″ square. Something lower price points. But then I remembered that Doug’s niece – a fiery red-head – loves pink and orange as a colour combination. And since we’ll be visiting her on the return…
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Next Shawl Warp
Next shawl warp I had originally purchased this yarn – a blend of merino wool, bamboo and silk – to re-sell, but there were some problems with the shipment and I don’t feel comfortable offering it to others. 🙁 So now I have to figure out how to use it up myself. Once again I’m…
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Bamboo Rain
Shawl #2 In between helping Katie get started I did get the AVL dressed with the Bamboo Rain yarn. It’s weaving up co-operatively and looking quite nice on the loom. The bright pink has been somewhat subdued by the paler purple being used for weft on this shawl. The first shawl I used pink weft…
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On Intentions
Bamboo Rain (merino, bamboo, silk blend) I’ve been toying with the idea of making afghans from the Bamboo Rain yarn. But when I dug out all the boxes and looked at my colours, I realized that afghans weren’t likely the most marketable textile to make with these bright pinks, corals, blues and purples. One of…
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Moving Onwards
It was only when I started to write this post that I realized I had taken a nearly identical picture for the blog only a few weeks ago! I cut the Diversified Plain Weave afghans off the loom this morning and started beaming a shawl warp. The warp is made by dressing two scarf warps…
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Queen of Procrastination
Apologies again if this photo isn’t in focus. While I’m doing well with other tasks, the computer is still a bit of a blur – although it’s getting better. :} So, it’s confession time. I’ve been avoiding the AVL and the two shuttle DPW – and the shuttle boxes that started misbehaving for some unknown…
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May 19, 2009
No those aren’t plum blossoms on the ground. The plum blossoms had barely erupted on the trees yesterday – and today SNOW is falling. Sigh. So much for global ‘warming’! On the weaving front, I got two shawls woven yesterday, labelled and priced yarn and packed up another couple of boxes for the trip to…
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Red Shawl
While I still have to trim the fringes, the red silk boucle shawl is essentially done. And I am much happier with it than previous incarnations using this yarn. Sometimes we get so set on an approach we can’t see any other way of working. 🙁 So it was with this yarn. I stuck to…