Category: shawls
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Whittling Away the Pile
Energy levels are still low so I’ve been concentrating on low energy activities – spinning, getting inventory ready to ship, fringe twisting. Napping. I still have a mountain of twisting to do and a small hill of knotting on the silk gimp shawls to do, too. But I’ve got enough of the silk gimp shawls…
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Whittling Away the Pile
Energy levels are still low so I’ve been concentrating on low energy activities – spinning, getting inventory ready to ship, fringe twisting. Napping. I still have a mountain of twisting to do and a small hill of knotting on the silk gimp shawls to do, too. But I’ve got enough of the silk gimp shawls…
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Getting Ready
I’ve spent a couple of quiet days, resting and working on getting some inventory ready to ship for the show in September. There is now a box of hand dyed silk gimp yarn ready to go and this bucket of hand spun is on it’s way. I spent much of the afternoon weighing the skeins,…
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Making Plans
Here are the last two prototypes after wet finishing. The bamboo is noticably softer with better drape – only to be expected given the limp nature of ‘rayon’. With chemo scheduled again on Wednesday (given my white cell count is up high enough) and energy reserves getting noticably lower plus the pages of the calendar…
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White Rabbit Syndrom
I’m late! I’m late for a very important date!!!  I am enormously goal oriented and deadline driven. This is not actually a bad thing given I am a self-employed craftsperson, relying on the production and sales of my own textiles (not to mention teaching and writing about weaving) for my income. But there are…
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Of Comfort Zones
shawl warp #4 on the loom #4 off the loom I’m down to the last 3 shawl warps done with the silk gimp hand dyed yarns. All three of the last warps are the same sort of blue/green as this one. The problem, if problem it be, is that I’m all out of ‘safe’ colour…
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Rain, Rain, Go Away
Bought some batts from Jude Pilote of Ewesful Creations which arrived yesterday and I got inspired to set right down and start spinning. Today I plied the first bobbin using a black rayon with glitter. The glitter is a little stiffer than I’d hoped, but I still think the yarn turned out rather well. 🙂 Also…
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Perfection
The last 12 silk gimp warps – yes I know they look scary but really they are pussy cats once under tension. I’ve been thinking a lot lately about ‘perfection’. I know that we all strive for it but in my case at any rate, I rarely achieve it. The best I can get, usually,…
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Working on the Stash
stash reduction proceeds On Tuesday afternoon I dyed the last 7 silk gimp warps and the last few skeins. Today one of those warps was dry enough to dress the loom and using one of the skeins dyed at the same time as the warp, I wove off the shawl. I think there are 13…
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…and now we return to our regularly scheduled programming….
Today I went to the annex with 8 shawls that needed a hard press as part of their wet finishing. There were six from a blue/green warp and two left from the coral/peach I’d done a few weeks ago. Four of the blue/green had a very fine worsted wool used for weft in either black or…