Category: tea towels
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May Flowers
I had to reduce the size of this image to fit it all in because there is quite a large repeat happening which doesn’t show up until you get the design shrunk down – or get far enough away from it to really see what is happening. And this is why I keep coming…
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“Poor Man’s Damask”
May be a little hard to see, but I’ve switched to white weft on white warp and while I’m sitting at the loom I can’t really *see* what I’m doing. It is only when I get up from the loom and look it from an angle that the pattern becomes visible. Yes, I’m still…
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Spring
In my quest to use up my yarn, I decided to use yellow on this warp with this design. It’s quite difficult to weave insofar as the contrast between the yellow and white is…not a lot…and when I’m sitting in front of the loom I really can’t see the design at all. In order…
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Breaking the Ice
When I found out I had shingles, I’d just cut the last of a warp off the loom and had about 20 towels ready to be hemmed. Thing was, I couldn’t see properly. My left eye was so swollen up I could barely open it and I went from having poor depth perception to…none. …
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Progress, of a Sort
These towels are my shingles towels. I had just cut the last warp off and was about to beam the next when I got the diagnosis and it took me at least a week, maybe a bit longer, before I felt up to even attempting to beam the warp. Not knowing if I would…
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Not ‘Perfect’
Started weaving on the current warp this morning and while I would not claim these towels are ‘perfect’ they actually turned out quite close to how I thought they might. In the end, they are a bit darker than I expected, partly because the linen is more of a brown than the ‘usual’ beige…
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Yarn Chicken
Textile folk say that if you are concerned you don’t have enough yarn and yet go ahead and begin your project anyway, you are playing the Yarn Chicken Game. Now that I’m on the dregs of my 2/16 cotton, I tussled with the concept that perhaps, just maybe, pretty sure, I was going to…
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Organized
boxes of textiles put out on the shelves For the past week or so Doug has been working on the new pantry area in the laundry room. Last year this time, he installed this wall of shelves which we filled with the overflow from the annex. As the pandemic hit and we started to…
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A New Year
the ‘last’ tea towel warp (for now) Yesterday I cut the first half of the grey/blue warp off the loom and it was time to get the next warp ready for the loom. I have worried away at this warp for weeks, wondering if it will ‘work’ or not and finally the other day…
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A Little Faith
Finally started weaving the latest warp. I admit to a little trepidation each time I set up the loom. While I bring lots of experience with me, I never really know if what I have decided upon is actually going to work in the loom. So while I was fairly confident that the yarns…