Category: silk novelty
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It Isn’t Finished…
All together now… …until it’s wet finished. But before that can happen, a whole lot of knot tying needs to be done. By my calculations I believe there are 28 shawls in these three bins to be tied. Doug has already done some sessions pressing what I’ve managed to get ready. Of course, once they…
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It Isn’t Finished…
All together now… …until it’s wet finished. But before that can happen, a whole lot of knot tying needs to be done. By my calculations I believe there are 28 shawls in these three bins to be tied. Doug has already done some sessions pressing what I’ve managed to get ready. Of course, once they…
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End of the Line
This is it, the End of the Line. The Last of the Shawl Warps. #18 of 18. Just two more shawls to weave and put a period at the end of it. The rapid rate of recovery after surgery has slowed and, indeed, feels like it has come to a full stop, although I know…
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Odd Ball
Again, not quite true to life. The woven cloth looks very ‘pink’ on my monitor when it’s actually an orange/coral, more like the yarn in the shuttle. The cone on the left is about the same colour but a lighter value, while the cone on the right is pretty close although it looks a bit…
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Orange!
The colours in this photo are pretty true to life on my monitor. The warp is a coral and kind of brick red, the weft a sort of pumpkin orange with a fairly bright yellow. Not too much yellow because a little yellow goes a long way. Let me be perfectly clear. Orange appears in…
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Unsure
Sometimes you just don’t know what you are going to get until you start weaving. So it was with this yarn as weft. In the skein and on the cone it wasn’t particularly appealing to the eye. The pale areas were so very pale in comparison to the darker it looks quite jarring. But I…
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Another Bite
Officially at the half way point as I begin to set up warp #9 on the great stash busting count down from 18. This is the only blue warp in the run, which is a pity because I know I could sell a lot more than three blue shawls. But the point of the exercise…
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Another Bite
Officially at the half way point as I begin to set up warp #9 on the great stash busting count down from 18. This is the only blue warp in the run, which is a pity because I know I could sell a lot more than three blue shawls. But the point of the exercise…
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One Bite
Again, not quite accurate to life…the orange is much brighter, more like the orange in the shuttle. This is, in the count down from #18, warp #10. When I finish weaving this warp I will be half way through the shawl warps. And that much closer to recovery. The exercises the physio gave me are…
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Pretty in Pink
The warp on the loom is actually a darker magenta. I have three shades of magenta to use as weft; this is the darkest of the three. The other two will look more like this does in the photo. In the background are more warps waiting their turn. There is just one more warp to…