Category: stash reduction
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27 Yards +/-
Hmm – Blogger doesn’t seem to ‘get’ red. While this wasn’t a great photo to begin with, it wasn’t washed out until I uploaded it to here. At any rate. This is what 27 yards, more or less, of 2/16 cotton warp with 20/2 cotton weft at 32 epi/ppi looks like. The 20/2 is is…
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Making Maps
another red warp using up Lynn’s yarn (the variegated – red/blue/green) I love maps. I like to pore over them, putting myself in context with where I am, and where I want to go. I use things like lists and outlines to help define my goals and what I want to accomplish. Most time I…
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Seeing Red
Three warps. Three red warps. Turns out my stock of 2/8 cotton is much more depleted than I remembered and what I have the most of is red. So the next two towel warps on the Fanny will be red based. It’s really hard to tell from the photo but the top most warp has…
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Slip Sliding
back to the Fanny and warping valet warp wound of two 2/8 cotton with one strand of variegated cotton flake ready to transfer the cross – the lease sticks aren’t going anywhere so long as tension is kept on the warp In spite of a whole lot of distractions I did manage to rough sley,…
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One Tiny Bite
Managed one tiny bite – finished off the ‘green’ warp with some of the singles 16 half-bleached linen. Unfortunately there is still some of the linen left after the warp is finished, but I think I can use that on the beginning of the next warp on the AVL. I have also decided what to…
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As I Mean To Go On
This morning I determined to get back to the loom pronto, so after a quick trip to the post office to pick up two bunny-eared-bags-of-goodness (about 80 pounds of yarn from Maurice Brassard), and a gift (see below) I fired up the loom and got started. I had intended to finish this warp with some…
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As I Mean To Go On
This morning I determined to get back to the loom pronto, so after a quick trip to the post office to pick up two bunny-eared-bags-of-goodness (about 80 pounds of yarn from Maurice Brassard), and a gift (see below) I fired up the loom and got started. I had intended to finish this warp with some…
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Time to Veg
The guys are loading up the last of the boxes of yarn into the van. By the time they get that done and we packed, it would be getting dark – and well into rush hour. (Although why it’s called ‘rush’ when all you do is crawl….) So we have elected to stay one more…
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Sifting Through the Piles
We arrived about 1 pm and the guys went off to buy boxes to load the yarn up into. So far I’ve sorted through one room. Essentially separating the sheep from the goats, so to speak. Yarn stored for a very long time can go ‘bad’. Especially fine yarns dyed a very dark colour. So…
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Sneaking up on Tidy
north wall west wall Today a friend came and helped me sneak up on ‘tidy’. Quite frankly, even though she knows me, knows the chaos I live in and the length and breadth of my stash, even she was somewhat staggered at just exactly how much yarn was living in all those boxes and bins.…