Category: tea towels
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Enablers
Happy Tuesday to me. 🙂 I am blessed with enablers who send me yarn (and books). On this snowy Tuesday morning, a kilo of fine singles linen arrived from Lithuania. It’s a bit finer than I had envisioned, which means I will have to re-tool my plans for it, but never mind, anticipation is…
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Ko-Fi Updates
The current towels are difficult to see, in part because the repeat is bigger than the space up on top of the loom, in part because I’m using one of the warp colours as weft. I have managed to update my ko-fi shop with four more ‘matrix’ designs, and I am feeling a bit,…
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Mid-February
draft for heart motif Well, here we are, nearly the middle of the shortest month of the year. We have sun today, which is lovely, a welcome change from the string of grey dreary days we have been having. But the weather is not…’normal’…far too warm, and already the slumbering wildfires that never got…
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Mid-February
draft for heart motif Well, here we are, nearly the middle of the shortest month of the year. We have sun today, which is lovely, a welcome change from the string of grey dreary days we have been having. But the weather is not…’normal’…far too warm, and already the slumbering wildfires that never got…
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Chaos and Entropy
Just finished threading, sleying and tieing on the next warp. This time the thread and heddle count were identical, and the sleying worked out to the exact number of dents. It seems I *may* have not made any mistakes. But that will be determined when I begin to weave… Earlier today I was reading…
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Change One Thing
bottom cloth with cotton weft, top cloth ‘strip’ with linen weft Truth be told, I did change more than one thing when I ran out of the navy cotton and sampled the singles linen in my stash that I wanted to use next. Giving the yarns a cursory examination, it appeared the linen was…
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Never Ending Stash
Got this draft threaded yesterday, then noticed what looked like ‘mistakes’ in the cloth when I wove the header. Came back and looked at the draft again, and nope, I didn’t make a mistake. It’s part of the nature of the weave structure, given the half tones and the changes in the twill lines…
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Holiday Gift Giving
The sale in the guild room appears to be going well. Most of my ‘discounted’ stuff has been sold so I am delivering more again today, in preparation for the coming weekend. We still have little to no snow, although we woke to a ‘winter wonderland’ with all the trees coated with hoar frost. …
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Working in Series
inspired by Snail’s Trails and Cat’s Paws As I work through a series, I usually generate a lot more designs/drafts than ever see the loom. So it is with this series. I have a queue of designs I’ve messed about with over the months, some of them I found acceptable at the time. Now? …
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Because I Can
‘four leaf clover’ This isn’t really a four leaf clover, of course I know that. But I need to name my weaving files with something that I will remember later, just in case I want to do the draft again – or modify it, use it as a stepping stone to another design. I’m…