Category: tea towels
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Dealing with Distractions
Distractions are not good when it comes time to do things like thread a loom, even if it is a simple pattern. It only takes your mind to go wandering elsewhere while your body continues on automatic, and you have an ‘oopsie’. 🙁 Fortunately I’m weaving towels and cut lines come along at regular intervals,…
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Time Becomes More Precious…
…the less of it you have. (song lyric sung by Bonnie Raitt) Plan C In my heart I still think I’m 39 (who is that old woman in the mirror and why is she stalking me?) but two years ago I was forcefully reminded that life is fragile and that we – none of us…
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All Things Being Equal…
I’m really kind of liking this but…… 2/20 merc. cotton is generally pretty solid as a warp. Sure I double the outside four ends in the heddles (but not the reed) just to give the selvedges a little more spine, but usually I have very little trouble with broken threads. The first four towels wove…
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Making Changes
Decided I wasn’t loving the twill blocks as much as I thought I would, so changed the tie up to a more ‘traditional’ look. In the process I reversed the twill line so it now begins with the snowflake motif on the outside and the snowballs in the centre. oops. Oh well. The tie up…
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Blue Mood
Got the blue warp weaving this evening. One sleying error, spotted after completing towel #1. It was one of those threads that simply did not weave into the cloth and rode along behind, invisible until I looked at the back of the cloth. Oh well – it will go to a good home as I…
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Plan B1 or C1 or Maybe D
The colour is a little on the yellow side in this picture – not sure why. Anyway, I wasn’t completely thrilled with Plan B – it was a tad busy. It was okay enough that I wove 6 towels, but after I simplified the tie up for Plan C, I was much happier with the…
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Plan B1 or C1 or Maybe D
The colour is a little on the yellow side in this picture – not sure why. Anyway, I wasn’t completely thrilled with Plan B – it was a tad busy. It was okay enough that I wove 6 towels, but after I simplified the tie up for Plan C, I was much happier with the…
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Dimensional Loss
Someone emailed me remarking on the tiny amount of draw in on the linen towels. Well, that’s the nature of working with linen – less dimensional loss than with other yarns. Linen is very stiff. It doesn’t want to bend much and so it holds the threads out wider than, for example, cotton will. Two…
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Oops!
Got started weaving this morning with a couple of oopsies. Approximately 900 ends in a fairly complex threading pattern and I had one sleying error and one threading error. The threading should have been 7,8,7 and it was actually 8,9,8. So I cut the errant threads out, tied repair heddles where needed (two on shaft…
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Next!
Got an email yesterday saying Coby was driving to PG today – several days sooner than expected given the weather we’ve been having all over the place. So I was caught a bit flat footed, thinking I had a couple more days to mosey along finishing the green tea towel warp and dressing the loom…