Category: stash reduction
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Stash Reduction, Daily Exercise
2/8 cotton warp with cotton/linen slub for towel body, 2/16 cotton for hem weft – note cutting line – two picks of twill Got home from doin’ the Puyallup about 9 pm last night. Today I tried to get organized – banking and such – and in between wove on Fanny working on the tea…
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Next Shawl Warp
Next shawl warp I had originally purchased this yarn – a blend of merino wool, bamboo and silk – to re-sell, but there were some problems with the shipment and I don’t feel comfortable offering it to others. 🙁 So now I have to figure out how to use it up myself. Once again I’m…
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Stash Reduction Continues
After dinner I went back down to the loom and used up another cone weaving a couple of table runners. Then I started in on some more yarns, bundling them together to make a nice thick weft yarn for place mats. In this photo you can just see the table runner turning round the breast…
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Full Sized Sample
Apparently this warp wasn’t going slowly enough because I had a hare-brained idea to add some chenille to this one. Meaning two shuttles. :} The weft I’ve been using is a high quality acrylic slub woven in twill. I added one pick of chenille for each two picks of the slub – again in twill.…
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Full Sized Sample
Apparently this warp wasn’t going slowly enough because I had a hare-brained idea to add some chenille to this one. Meaning two shuttles. :} The weft I’ve been using is a high quality acrylic slub woven in twill. I added one pick of chenille for each two picks of the slub – again in twill.…
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Spring Arrives!
So let me begin by explaining that Doug continues to work the closing shift; ergo waking up at the crack of dawn is not really our first choice. But that was exactly what happened this morning when the neighbourhood woodpecker announced his return to the ‘hood by using the metal flange covering our chimney to…
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Spring Arrives!
So let me begin by explaining that Doug continues to work the closing shift; ergo waking up at the crack of dawn is not really our first choice. But that was exactly what happened this morning when the neighbourhood woodpecker announced his return to the ‘hood by using the metal flange covering our chimney to…
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As Far As I Got
Today was a bit scattered. Spent much of the morning balancing my ledger and doing my GST return, then ran down to the post office to mail a couple of orders from my Art Fire Store. 😀 When I got home, I decided that it was way beyond time to wash the floor so I…
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All Squared Away
Here are the square cloths draped over the back of my sofa. The two on the outsides have the linen/rayon boucle for weft, the next two inside those on each side use the same ivory for weft as the majority of the warp, and the one in the middle is the cotton slub for weft.…
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Defining Success
These scarves were woven from Bambu 12 and a wool lycra (the white stripes.) They were one of my few unqualified ‘successes’. So little of what I create actually matches the fibre vision in my head. These came very close. 😀 Speaking of ‘success’ I have c0ntinued to think a lot about the shape of…