Category: tea towels
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More Happy Colours
the natural weft is really toning down the yellow in the warp… One more day to the solstice and I can hardly wait. It’s another overcast dreary day here and I’ve got a mild headache that is dragging at my energy so I feel like I’m wallowing in procrastination. Fortunately I have more happy colours…
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Colour! Give Me Colour!
showing the hem and towel body Over the years I have discovered that I am very much affected by the seasons – probably have a low grade SAD condition. February was always the worst month for me and I assumed the ancients knew what they were about when they made it the shortest one! The…
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Potential
Got back to the loom late this afternoon and wove one towel in the 25% green Fox Fibre yarn, then after dinner switched to a natural 2/15 cotton – and changed the tie up and treadling. A threading sequence is just a set of potentials. I like putting on a long warp and weaving various…
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Consequences
Fudge one place and you usually wind up having to fudge somewhere else. So it is with this warp. The yarn is 2/16 unmercerized cotton at 32 epi. It is sleyed 4 per dent in an 8 dent reed. Tossing two of the ends out of the left hand grey stripe means that the last…
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On Relaxing
The Yarn Harlot did a post today on ‘relaxing’. Her point is that so many people believe that ‘relaxing’ is sitting doing nothing while she believes (as do I) that ‘relaxing’ is when you are doing something you love. One of the things that drew me to weaving was the fact that it was amazingly…
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Satisfying Progress
Today I cut off what I’ve woven so far on the beige towel warp. Considering I’ve been sick with a cold, progress is…satisfactory. I’m trying very hard to not get on my own case for having done ‘only’ this much. I have, after all, done a bunch of administrivia and cleared a lot of the paperwork I’d…
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The Dynamics of Craft
showing the end of the towel including the hem area (at the top) I think this is my favourite of the wefts I’ve used up until now. Although the weft is actually natural, it looks very bright against the beiges of the warp and puts me in mind of icing sugar on baked goods. 🙂…
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Next Big Project
next Fox Fibre towel I think the towels on this warp are turning out quite nicely. They will make excellent hostess gifts next year when I travel to teach. They will also eventually be listed on my Art Fire Store as soon as they are wet finished, hemmed and pressed – which will take a while. …
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Staging Area
8 boxes of hand wovens all packed up ready to be loaded into the van Once again my living room floor is acting as a staging area as we prepare for the first of four consecutive craft fairs. Doug has gone off to unload the rear seats of the van, store them at the annex…
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Staging Area
8 boxes of hand wovens all packed up ready to be loaded into the van Once again my living room floor is acting as a staging area as we prepare for the first of four consecutive craft fairs. Doug has gone off to unload the rear seats of the van, store them at the annex…