Category: steam press
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Final Throes
We called it Puff. It served us well, pressing hundreds of yards of textiles in the time we had it. We are still hoping to find a new home for it, but things have gotten complicated. As in…the weather. Suddenly it’s winter and it’s wintering hard. First we (the entire province almost) got slammed with…
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Too Many Hats
The beginning of staging for the conference All of my life I have worn too many hats. This year has been no different except that I took on way too many hats given my current state of health. But five years ago I was in pretty good health (I thought). I was in remission from…
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Ch-ch-changes
Life is full of ups and downs, ins and outs, lefts and rights, backwards and forwards. The only thing certain about life is that Things Will Change. (And Death and Taxes, but that isn’t the subject of this post!) About 12 years ago I had the opportunity to obtain a large steam press. So large…
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Working Out Who is Boss
At times Doug was curled into a fetal position in order to see and work in the cavity but in the end he prevailed. Doug is the boss of Puff (my name for the press)! With any luck at all he can actually get some pressing done tomorrow…..and I can work on the list of…
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Keeping God Amused
I had a plan. It was a good plan. I was going to get soooo much accomplished this weekend. Can you hear the chuckling now? Doug offered to take over the pressing this weekend, which would free me up to work on the samples for Handwoven and the designer. Great! I was looking forward to…
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Steamed
Welcome to my steam bath. 🙂 It never fails – I wind up hitting the steam press on the hottest days of the year. Yesterday and today the temps were/are in the high 20’s (C not F) and after spending a couple of hours each day pressing scarves I’m pretty much ‘steamed’. The photo was…
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Steamed
Welcome to my steam bath. 🙂 It never fails – I wind up hitting the steam press on the hottest days of the year. Yesterday and today the temps were/are in the high 20’s (C not F) and after spending a couple of hours each day pressing scarves I’m pretty much ‘steamed’. The photo was…
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Satisfying
After a jet-lag induced slow start to the week, I’ve had a satisfying couple of days. Yesterday I threaded, sleyed and tied on the 2/20 mercerized cotton warp I beamed on the AVL on Friday and will start weaving today. The first 6 yards will be woven with a temple because of the density of…
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Satisfying
After a jet-lag induced slow start to the week, I’ve had a satisfying couple of days. Yesterday I threaded, sleyed and tied on the 2/20 mercerized cotton warp I beamed on the AVL on Friday and will start weaving today. The first 6 yards will be woven with a temple because of the density of…
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A Pressing Matter
This afternoon I went up to the annex for a binge of pressing. The wet finishing mountain avalanched on Mizz B last time she came over so it was past time to start dealing with it. Besides which I haven’t been feeling well so hemming seems about the right speed these days. 🙁 I’m still…