Category: tea towels
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Sunday Progress
20 yard warp – done! yarns for next warp of tea towels Hallelujah – the grey warp is woven! The next warp is going to be a lot more colourful. (Ignore the blue cone – it’s just hangin’ around.) I’m looking forward to finally using up the last of the fine linen, but am not…
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Painted Warp
painted warp – rose and greens same painted warp – blue/greens with more rose coming up Back to working on the multitude of painted warps. It was hard to get a picture of the colours as they shifted through the warp. This warp is fairly subdued with browned roses, deep blues and greens. I’m using…
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Inching Along
Made pretty significant progress today in spite of some retail therapy (shopping for a new vacuum cleaner) and continuing issues with pain. 🙁 Got a better picture of the cloth tonight. It still looks better in photos than it does in real life – go figure! Maybe I should get over being disappointed and withhold…
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Inching Along
Made pretty significant progress today in spite of some retail therapy (shopping for a new vacuum cleaner) and continuing issues with pain. 🙁 Got a better picture of the cloth tonight. It still looks better in photos than it does in real life – go figure! Maybe I should get over being disappointed and withhold…
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Inching Along
Made pretty significant progress today in spite of some retail therapy (shopping for a new vacuum cleaner) and continuing issues with pain. 🙁 Got a better picture of the cloth tonight. It still looks better in photos than it does in real life – go figure! Maybe I should get over being disappointed and withhold…
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When You’ve Lost That Lovin’ Feeling
option #1 beginning of option #2 The AVL had been sitting nekkid for far too long and for that reason and a bunch of others, I needed to slam a warp onto it pronto. My first inclination was to have a predominantly black warp with the blue and plum colour accents. Unfortunately I didn’t have…
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Back to Scarves
back to scarves and plain weave…. Finished the 11 meters (actually 10, I cut the warp off sooner ’cause I ran out of weft!) this afternoon then dressed the loom with a 10 meter painted warp. The warp is a mixture of soy protein fibre and Tencel about a 5/2 grist, set at 20 and…
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Once More – Mats
Spent most of the afternoon pressing, but did manage to get another placemat warp on the loom. Wasn’t sure about the choice for hem colour so I wove a header with the hem weft, then an inch with the weft for the mat body. It looked okay, so I’ve gone ahead and wound bobbins so…
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Reed Marks
Reed marks – before and after On one of the lists I belong to a newbie asked about the wisdom of putting more than one end per dent in a reed. She was concerned about the marks left by the reed. The above photo shows a before and after shot of towels that I’ve been…
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Talkin’ bout Towels
I’m really pleased with how the current warp is weaving up – subtle! Some people wonder why I don’t promote linen more as a towel yarn. Why do I promote cotton? Well, actually, what I promote is a very specific yarn combination, one that includes linen. Why do I call this combination of 2/16 cotton…