Category: shawls
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Weaving by Feel
the breast beam shows through this very open cloth – click on the photo to biggify As mentioned previously, this yarn is being woven very open. It is a highly textured silk, a bit stiff and a little coarse feeling, due to the high degree of twist and the torquing that happens as a result…
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All About the Therapy
Two shots of the same shawl. The top photo was taken with the ordinary flash, the bottom using the ‘red-eye’ feature of the flash. The bottom photo is much closer to real life than the top photo. I discovered by accident that using the red-eye feature gets me better representation of reds, especially. This shawl…
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A Few Picks
The beginning of a new ‘week’, another milestone. I have been so very good about not doing anything I should not during the 6 week healing phase of this journey. Now I’m well past that and getting anxious to reclaim my life. I have boxes and boxes filled with warps waiting to be woven and…
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Ready, Set…
Now that week 8 is half over, and I still haven’t heard from the cardiologist’s office, I’m getting antsy. One way of coping with it was to wind a bunch of shawl warps once Doug had enough skeins onto cones. So for the past few days I have wound 7 warps and pulled potential wefts…
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8 Weeks
Weaving is a physical activity and after 8 weeks of being physically inactive, my muscles are very weak. Or at least my upper body is. Since I’ve been able to walk outside I have been at least working on my legs. Since I still have not seen the cardiologist yet I don’t feel like I…
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Carrot #2
So now both looms have shawl warps on them. This one is just two shawls long (about 9 meters), partly because the yarn is a highly textured silk that is very grabby, partly because I’m using up stash (yay!) and I have limited colours to work with. The yarn is 10 epi and I’m trying…
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Carrot
Once again the colour isn’t ‘true’. The weft is actually somewhat deeper, a sort of grey blue with purplish hints. It looks almost silver here. Since mobility is going to be a bit compromised for the first while, I figured I’d better get this warp actually weaving with the auto cloth advance set and ready…
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Carrot
Once again the colour isn’t ‘true’. The weft is actually somewhat deeper, a sort of grey blue with purplish hints. It looks almost silver here. Since mobility is going to be a bit compromised for the first while, I figured I’d better get this warp actually weaving with the auto cloth advance set and ready…
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Carrot
Once again the colour isn’t ‘true’. The weft is actually somewhat deeper, a sort of grey blue with purplish hints. It looks almost silver here. Since mobility is going to be a bit compromised for the first while, I figured I’d better get this warp actually weaving with the auto cloth advance set and ready…
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Carrot
Once again the colour isn’t ‘true’. The weft is actually somewhat deeper, a sort of grey blue with purplish hints. It looks almost silver here. Since mobility is going to be a bit compromised for the first while, I figured I’d better get this warp actually weaving with the auto cloth advance set and ready…