Category: tea towels
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Baby Steps?
the cover of Magic in the Water…. one of the project pages from Magic…. Does anyone not know what Magic in the Water is? It’s a 2 inch ring binder filled with information on what wet finishing is and how to do it. The ‘meat’ of the book is the project pages where you see…
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Withholding Judgement
You might remember waaaaay back in February I was having a problem weaving this warp.http://3.ly/HnX7 I was not loving this warp at all. In fact, my first option I disliked so much on the loom that I only wound up weaving one towel in that weave structure! So my own words have come back to…
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Towelling Up
2/16 cotton warp with fine linen weft 2/8 cotton warp (warp twist) with rayon/linen boucle’ weft 2/8 warp twist cotton warp with fine cotton slub weft Finishing what I’ve woven always seems to take longer than the weaving, partly because I tend to do the tasks involved in batches. Since I do my pressing at…
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Tiny Steps
threaded warp close up of warp stripes – click for bigger image so you can see all the colours better – there are 9 of them in this warp Yesterday I finished the ‘spring’ towels. This morning I beamed the next towel warp. This time I did 15 yards because I blew through the last…
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More Progress – sloowly, slooowly
After having a good wallow in my disappointment yesterday, I woke up this morning (having had 7 hours of sleep – hooray!) determined to surrender to what is, instead of struggling with what isn’t…. A friend who is an RN commented that I needed to toughen the tender bones, so once I was dressed this…
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Progress – of a sort….
Well the good news is that I was able to weave two placemats on the Fanny loom. The weft is a bundle of 2/8 cotton, cotton slub and a fairly fine cotton boucle’ woven in broken twill. The bad news is that I’m not nearly as mobile as I was expecting to be. 🙁 Saw…
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Endings and Beginnings
In many ways I think that this combination is my favourite for this warp. Once I ran out of the 24 nm linen, I switched to a fine cotton slub that I’ve used for towels before. It’s a finer slub than I’ve seen from other suppliers and makes a nice quality of cloth suitable for…
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In Search of Clarity
I think that if you click on the picture you can just make out option #2 (at bottom) and option #3 (at top). I confess I’m not actually loving this warp. Perhaps it’s the colour combination which I mentioned previously isn’t amongst my favourites. But right now, making something I personally love to bits isn’t…
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Use it or Lose it
red and white bookmark completed Well, I made it down to the AVL today with every intention of weaving two tea towels. It was made very clear to me that not only has my left calf muscle wasted away, so have many other muscles in my body. 🙁 About half way through the first tea…
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2/3’s
There are a lot of 2/3’s in my life right now. Fer instance – the bookmark is 1/3rd done, so there are 2/3’s left to finish it. But far more important to me right now is that I am 2/3’s the way through the 6 week non-weight bearing portion of my recovery. It has become…