Category: special orders
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Dreaming Textile Dreams
In addition to the last two shows being successful enough that inventory is getting low in certain items, I also have the sample warp for the designer in Vancouver to weave and a special order for 3 table cloths for a customer in Calgary. One thing about doing shows in person is that you get…
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Dreaming Textile Dreams
In addition to the last two shows being successful enough that inventory is getting low in certain items, I also have the sample warp for the designer in Vancouver to weave and a special order for 3 table cloths for a customer in Calgary. One thing about doing shows in person is that you get…
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Mug Rugs
I got all the mug rugs woven and run through the washer/dryer before I left for Kelowna and managed to hem nearly all of them while I was away. The rest I finished last night. Normally I would press everything once the hemming was done, but I knew my client was in a hurry and…
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Mug Rugs
Got the loom dressed and started weaving after dinner. This photo shows the hem woven with 2/16 cotton, and the body of the cloth woven with a cotton slub, a cotton boucle and two strands of 2/8 cotton bundled together. I weave a cut line between mats for ease in cutting them apart and serging,…
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Special Orders
Finished winding this warp for a special order this morning. It’s only 6″ wide, but 11 meters long – for 30 mug rugs. I hesitate to do special orders except that this client has been so easy to deal with. She pretty much gives me free rein to do what I want within general specifications.…
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Playing Hookey
The THUD you may have heard last week was me falling off the energy wagon. For the past couple of months I have been feeling more and more exhausted, which I attributed to a hectic travel/teaching schedule, poor sleep, what have you. May 4th, when the specialist confirmed my suspicions I felt myself teeter, and…
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Loom Waste?
One of the benefits of a counterbalanced loom is that you can force the shed. Since I was already using a stick shuttle I just kept on weaving, trying to get as much length woven out of the warp as I possibly could. 🙂 The loom waste on this warp was miniscule! If I’d known…
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Inching Along
So I did as Barbara suggested – stopped for dinner, watched some tv, hemmed and knitted, and then went back down to the loom concentrating on getting that right selvedge a whole lot more consistent. 🙂 This photo shows the first sash about 3/4’s of the way done. And here’s a close up showing the…
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Inching Along
So I did as Barbara suggested – stopped for dinner, watched some tv, hemmed and knitted, and then went back down to the loom concentrating on getting that right selvedge a whole lot more consistent. 🙂 This photo shows the first sash about 3/4’s of the way done. And here’s a close up showing the…
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Inching Along
So I did as Barbara suggested – stopped for dinner, watched some tv, hemmed and knitted, and then went back down to the loom concentrating on getting that right selvedge a whole lot more consistent. 🙂 This photo shows the first sash about 3/4’s of the way done. And here’s a close up showing the…