Category: silk yarn
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Monday Rambles
When I published Magic in the Water, I realized I would need to attend fibre events in order to show people the book in order to sell it. Since having just one item to sell wasn’t going to pay the expenses of renting a booth space never mind travelling to get to the event, I…
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Piling Up
As warned my energy levels are dipping lower and taking longer to come back after each cycle, but I’m officially 3/4’s of the way through this challenge and the end is in sight, espcially since there will be no more delays. I’ve got the vials from the pharmacy and I begin the injections on Sunday to…
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Perfect or Good?
Turns out some of the 2/30 silk I have on hand has already been used for other projects I guess because several of the colours I’d hoped to use on this warp are insufficient for a scarf. Oh well. More yarn to go into the bobbin lace bag. It seems as though at times people get…
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Perfect or Good?
Turns out some of the 2/30 silk I have on hand has already been used for other projects I guess because several of the colours I’d hoped to use on this warp are insufficient for a scarf. Oh well. More yarn to go into the bobbin lace bag. It seems as though at times people get…
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Perfect or Good?
Turns out some of the 2/30 silk I have on hand has already been used for other projects I guess because several of the colours I’d hoped to use on this warp are insufficient for a scarf. Oh well. More yarn to go into the bobbin lace bag. It seems as though at times people get…
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Wherein I Take Another Stab at the Stash
The baby wraps were not particularly hard or difficult to weave but since the loom was giving me the fits during the weaving of both 30 yard warps I’d pretty much had it with 2/20 mercerized cotton warps and fly shuttles. For a while at least. Not to mention I really need to continue to…
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Gimp and Boucle’
When I was learning to spin, I was told that the yarn on the left was called a ‘gimp’ and the yarn on the right was a ‘boucle’ (accent over the e’). Since I’m not really a spinner I don’t know the finer points of distinction in how they are constructed but they are both…
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Scarfaweekend #2
click on photo to see close up In spite of spending the morning at the guild room dyeing, I managed to thread and sley the warp this afternoon and after dinner got about half of it woven in between minding the industrial cone winder. I have a new temporary studio elf coming in on Monday,…
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Lashing On
Someone emailed me a few days ago and asked if I ever lashed on. The answer is, yes, I do lash on sometimes. I’m trying to get some samples of the 2/20 silk yarn that I’ve been dyeing woven up, and this yarn is a prime candidate for lashing. The yarn is slippery and fine…
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Of Dyeing and Warp Winding
Winding three colour warp with cheat sheet When I’m winding a long or complex stripe sequence I post a cheat sheet above the warping board so that I can keep track of which colour comes next and how many ends of each colour are required. In this case my counting string will count not merely…