Category: stash reduction
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On a Roll
Progress comes slowly, but come it does. I’m down to about 30 yards left on the AVL, and in between weaving on it, I’ve been winding more tea towel warps. Because Stash Reduction! I still have yarn left from Lynn that is really only suitable for weft, but as such, makes nice towels. So, more…
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Patience
Life has been trying – for a very long time – to teach me patience. Unfortunately it’s not a virtue I possess… It feels like Life has been a whole lot of ‘hurry up and wait’ for a rather long time. I am a planner and a do-er. When I can’t make plans because I…
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Work = Play
So, I am back to weaving with yarn of relatively high linen content – during winter – with low ambient humidity. Yesterday I dressed the loom with another tea towel warp on the small loom and wound bobbins for weft. The weft yarn is a cotton slub plyed (plied?) with a singles linen. It’s fairly…
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Forging Onwards
The photo is a little dark because the view is under the loom. But the colours are pretty close to real life, so… Today the yarn order arrived. You remember, the yarn order I had to put in because we sold so much yarn at Red Deer we didn’t have enough for the vendor booth…
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Onward Stash Reduction!
Yesterday I wove the special order of place mats, re-tooled the warp for the AVL and this morning started beaming it. The beauty of this warp is that I not only didn’t have to order more yarn in, I actually emptied some spools. I have 15 of the cones of cotton slub/linen and I’m hoping…
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Odd Ball
Again, not quite true to life. The woven cloth looks very ‘pink’ on my monitor when it’s actually an orange/coral, more like the yarn in the shuttle. The cone on the left is about the same colour but a lighter value, while the cone on the right is pretty close although it looks a bit…
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Orange!
The colours in this photo are pretty true to life on my monitor. The warp is a coral and kind of brick red, the weft a sort of pumpkin orange with a fairly bright yellow. Not too much yellow because a little yellow goes a long way. Let me be perfectly clear. Orange appears in…
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Unsure
Sometimes you just don’t know what you are going to get until you start weaving. So it was with this yarn as weft. In the skein and on the cone it wasn’t particularly appealing to the eye. The pale areas were so very pale in comparison to the darker it looks quite jarring. But I…
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Another Bite
Officially at the half way point as I begin to set up warp #9 on the great stash busting count down from 18. This is the only blue warp in the run, which is a pity because I know I could sell a lot more than three blue shawls. But the point of the exercise…
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Another Bite
Officially at the half way point as I begin to set up warp #9 on the great stash busting count down from 18. This is the only blue warp in the run, which is a pity because I know I could sell a lot more than three blue shawls. But the point of the exercise…