Category: shawls
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Next Shawl Warp
first shawl on pink/lavender warp box o’ pirns Started weaving the pink/lavender warp this morning. The weft is a greyish white alpaca which goes nicely on the ‘greyed’ colours of the warp. Since the yarn is a greyish colour I’m going to try and use it all up on this warp and be done with…
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Turquoise Shawls
The merino/bamboo/silk yarn is fairly thick for weaving – 2100 yards per pound. When I used it for both warp and weft in a twill I set it at 16 epi/ppi which produced a fairly thick fabric. While I was happy enough with it for cosy shawls and baby blankets, I felt that it was…
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On The Stash
Ta-DAH! The coral warp is woven and I started beaming the turqouise warp tonight. Yesterday I had a short conversation with a quilter who mentioned that she was on a serious mission to reduce her stash. She felt that the sheer volume of her stash was weighing her down. I agreed and offered that the reward…
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On The Stash
Ta-DAH! The coral warp is woven and I started beaming the turqouise warp tonight. Yesterday I had a short conversation with a quilter who mentioned that she was on a serious mission to reduce her stash. She felt that the sheer volume of her stash was weighing her down. I agreed and offered that the reward…
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On The Stash
Ta-DAH! The coral warp is woven and I started beaming the turqouise warp tonight. Yesterday I had a short conversation with a quilter who mentioned that she was on a serious mission to reduce her stash. She felt that the sheer volume of her stash was weighing her down. I agreed and offered that the reward…
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Coral Warp
The coral warp is actually quite bright but today is a dull day and perhaps my camera just couldn’t cope with the bright coral – who knows. It looks rather subdued in the photo in comparison to real life. Anyway, the warp was bright enough that I wanted to tone it down a bit. I’m…
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Spring Flowers
A tiny, perfect little orchid bouquet delivered a week ago and still going strong Latest arrangement Plum shawl warp April is not the nicest month here, especially when winter has overstayed it’s welcome. The tulips in my front bed are barely above ground, buds still tightly furled. So it was especially nice to be gifted…
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Road Trip
I finished off the green warp this afternoon and got the next one beamed, ready to thread. This one is various shades of purples, some more red, some more blue, a little lavender, some of it even a reddish coppery shade. They don’t all show in this photo. If you look really closely you can…
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Overcoming Challenges
Using Kerstin Froberg’s method of fixing knots in the warp – a new end is threaded through the same heddle as the end with the knot and both are woven for about 1 inch or so, then the knot is cut out. Weaving proceeds until the original end is long enough. It is then threaded…
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Operator Error
They say that stress impairs brain function. Guess ‘they’ are right. Took me about 14 inches of fighting with the cloth advance before I finally twigged I had it set up in the wrong configuration for what I wanted to do. Once I got it set up correctly – piece of cake. If the warp…