Category: tea towels
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Very Nearly
Once I can see the knots and the guide strings through the warp I know I’m nearly done. And not before time, either, as I’m getting a wee bit tired of this rose warp. On the other hand, the biggest investment made in a hand woven fabric is setting up the loom so it only…
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‘Carrot’
Getting close to the end of the rose warp so began thinking about the next. With the goal of using up stash and not buying more yarn, the creative limitation is to work with what I have. Even though I have lots of inventory of green/turquoise, here I go again. This time more of a…
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Rolling On
as usual, click on the photo to biggify Here is a peek at the warp with the natural linen weft. It clearly shows how I deal with hems…in this case it is a straight progression for 3 inches, then start with the body of the towel. At the other end, the progression begins from the…
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Rolling On
as usual, click on the photo to biggify Here is a peek at the warp with the natural linen weft. It clearly shows how I deal with hems…in this case it is a straight progression for 3 inches, then start with the body of the towel. At the other end, the progression begins from the…
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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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Oops…
There is a meme on Facebook that says that a master has failed more than the student has tried. Photographic proof that I am batting 1000 in terms of making mistakes setting up the AVL! Since I beam sectionally (most times) on the AVL, I rarely have precisely the number of ends that I need.…
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Oops…
There is a meme on Facebook that says that a master has failed more than the student has tried. Photographic proof that I am batting 1000 in terms of making mistakes setting up the AVL! Since I beam sectionally (most times) on the AVL, I rarely have precisely the number of ends that I need.…
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Proof of Progress
Colours aren’t quite accurate here – they should be more green-ish. But here it is – about 28 tea towels all in a roll. I cut the warp off this afternoon and began cutting them apart and serging them. Doug will go pressing on Sunday and then I will have lots of hemming to be…
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Spring Flowers..and a trial balloon
We had a huge thunder/lightning storm last night. Cracks of lightning felt like they were directly overhead – close enough the house shook from the special effects. Eventually we lost tv/internet although not electricity, thankfully. We read for a while, then I decided that – since I was officially over the half way mark on…
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Rolling, Rolling
Not the greatest picture in the world, but shows the pattern off quite nicely, I think. Click to biggify and maybe see a little more detail of the colours in the warp. And it turns out that this 30 yard warp isn’t going to be long enough to use up all those cones of cotton/linen…