Category: spinning
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Day Brighteners
River’s Edge Blueberry Grape Juice….and a tiny peek at my handwoven blue tablecloth underneath – click on photo to biggify Today is an overcast day again, so plying this yarn was a real day brightener. 🙂 Again, limited success, mostly because I’m pretty out of practice with my spinning. This time I didn’t core spin…
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Spinning Fibres
River’s Edge Billie Jean and Walking Stick (more green in real life) River’s Edge River Wide (more green in life) and Grand Canyon River’s Edge Stone Path (this photo is totally off colour – it actually has a lot more green and grey in it than shows here) River’s Edge Winterhaven Dark (shows more rose)…
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Full Circle
Life seems to run in a series of spirals. I got into weaving because I was taking a spinning class at the local college. I learned how to spin – not well, but with enthusiasm – and sold my yarns for a time. I also used them for knitting and weaving. One of the first…
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New Spinners
Yesterday two new spinners/weavers came over to look at the Ashland Bay spinning fibres. I’d met them the evening before at the guild drop-in where they were working on their inkle looms weaving tapes and/or spinning on drop spindles. 🙂 One of the local spinners/weavers has been giving classes at the SCA group and has…
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Fibres West
Yesterday the postcards arrived for Fibres West being held in Abbotsford, BC March 26/27. This is the show I’m getting ready to do, introducing myself for the first time as an Ashford and Ashland Bay dealer. http://fibreswest.com There are classes in various textile media and a nice vendor hall. Started packaging the merino/silk fibre yesterday…
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Navaho Plying
first skein ever Navaho plied by moi I think I may have fallen in love. 🙂 I’m madly trying to get some samples made up of the fibre I’m now carrying and I decided that I’d like to try plying. Since I have plied the traditional way before and found it time consuming getting two…
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Navaho Plying
first skein ever Navaho plied by moi I think I may have fallen in love. 🙂 I’m madly trying to get some samples made up of the fibre I’m now carrying and I decided that I’d like to try plying. Since I have plied the traditional way before and found it time consuming getting two…
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More Plain Weave
Plain weave again Funny how I seem to get into a groove and can’t get out of it again, but here I am with another 4 warps destined to be woven in plain weave. Each warp is 4 yards long for one scarf. While in Kelowna on my last trip, I spent a couple of…
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Tampa, FL
Arrived in Tampa last night, sans suitcase. The tight connection in Charlotte meant that while I made the flight to Tampa, my suitcase didn’t. 🙁 We’re waiting for it to be delivered. Thankfully I had sufficient personal items in my carry on that I was able to shower and change this morning and have clean…