Category: silk yarn
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Quiet Days
One of the lessons I am trying to learn is to be kinder to myself – my body. I have been through the wringer for the past few years, and my body is essentially battered and bruised. And it has been letting me know it is not happy. So, my therapist has left me…
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Quiet Days
One of the lessons I am trying to learn is to be kinder to myself – my body. I have been through the wringer for the past few years, and my body is essentially battered and bruised. And it has been letting me know it is not happy. So, my therapist has left me…
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The Scissor Solution
Since weaving was, first and foremost, my business/profession, I was very quick to realize that my time was the most valuable commodity that I was investing into my textiles. As such, it became quite easy over the years to figure out when the time I needed to invest in a warp was becoming unreasonable. When…
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Carrot/Stick
I used to beam the AVL with a wound warp but wasn’t sure if I could make it work on the Megado. The warp is silk, fairly fine, and it’s for a proposed article for Handwoven. I have already had some…oopsies…with this project so I was foot dragging on getting it beamed. Not to mention…
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Carrot/Stick
I used to beam the AVL with a wound warp but wasn’t sure if I could make it work on the Megado. The warp is silk, fairly fine, and it’s for a proposed article for Handwoven. I have already had some…oopsies…with this project so I was foot dragging on getting it beamed. Not to mention…
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Keeping Track
I have two planning calendars – one for the current year, one for the coming year. Early in January I wipe last years calendar off, post the now current one where I can easily consult it (door of my office) and set up the calendar for the next year which I also keep in the…
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Sprouting
When I began telling people that I was going to ‘retire’ and close down my business, the question would be asked – what would I do? The short answer was – I don’t know. I knew I would keep weaving, just not production weaving. I knew I would write – for this blog, if nothing…
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Full Steam Ahead
The yarn arrived yesterday afternoon. I immediately opened the box and checked my initial calculations once I had the actual yarn in hand, and everything seemed ok. I wound the warp and started filling out the project notes. By the time I’d done that it was dinner time, so I left it until this afternoon.…
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Craftsy Blog
The latest Craftsy blog I wrote has been published here This weekend Cindy and I (and 10 other guild members) are attending a workshop being presented by Kim McKenna, learning about the new regenerated fibres. It’s been a while since I had done any spinning so I’m fumbling my way through the samples, mostly slippery…
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Snap, Crackle
In spite of running the humidifier for several days, this warp proceeded to crackle and the threads splay outwards away from each other anyway. So out with the spray bottle to tame the wild static electricity! After winding I sprayed the entire warp chain, then put the box and all into a plastic bag in…