Category: tea towels
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By the Numbers
When I talked to a friend about burning through my yarn stash, she reacted with astonishment and lots of praise. For one thing, she had actually seen my yarn stash when she visited in January of this year, and, being a spinner, was also well aware of the volume of yarn I had and…
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Purple
on the loom after wet finishing Wet finishing is the final step in bringing a collection of woven threads into being as ‘real’ cloth. While on the loom, it was possible to clearly see the reed marks (no so visible in the top photo, but believe me, I could clearly see them), the threads…
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One by One
After spending so much time on the puzzle, I thought I would share it once it was done. A lot of people find doing such things – like making a jigsaw puzzle – is a waste of time. I agree it is a way to spend time. But a waste? I guess that depends…
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And Onwards We Go
Doug dug out the driveway – again – yesterday. Winter is definitely here. And time marches on. Today I have some personal errands to run so I don’t know that I will get two towels woven. I had another ‘bad’ night so am running on short sleep rations. It’s hard to focus and get…
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Marketing
Marketing my own stuff has always been the most difficult part of being a professional/production weaver. Over the years I was in business I tried a number of different things, including professional photography and postcards – when people still actually used them. (Yes, I AM that old!) During a course on marketing, one of…
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Stage ‘Fright’
next warp ready to go – two shades of blue, plus rose The coming week and week following are going to be personally stressful for me – in addition to the general malaise of the current events unfolding (pandemic, politics, the politics of the pandemic) I am also going to do my first (?…
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Milestones
Yesterday I finished weaving the blue warp. It took longer than hoped, in part because I was busy with getting the guild sale sorted out, in part because I had another box of Olds homework to mark. This morning I will type up my notes, send the student their mark, submit the mark to…
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Begin Again
set up for the next warp Yesterday I managed to finish weaving the beige warp but it was late in the day when I did so I left it at that point. This morning I cut the warp off the cloth beam, cut/serged the towels and got them into the washing machine. Then I…
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Subtle
two towels from latest warp – left – beige weft; right – white weft Today is a grey day and it was hard to get a photo of these two towels to show the subtle difference the change in weft colour is making. In real life, the beige is a bit darker, dull in…
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What a Difference
the end of the black, beginning of green, tube being used as a bobbin Yesterday I started using up the green that was in the warp because I had finally used up the black. And I really really like the green! So much so that I kind of regret using up so much of…