Category: tea towels
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Plans, Best Laid
So, I had a plan. It was a good plan. I was pleased with myself for coming up with said plan. Until I got to the loom. Plan A was sort of what I wanted, but it wasn’t weaving up in a way that made me happy. I couldn’t seem to work out the technical…
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Cutting Losses
beam with one section ‘short’ of yarn through the washer/dryer, ready to be pressed, then hemmed and pressed again I beam warps onto the Megado sectionally and sometimes, things go ‘wrong’. So it was with this warp. One end was giving me grief and the section 4 in from the selvedge wound up needing me…
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Things Can Change
? One of the things I do is mull over decisions, not just creative decisions, to be honest, but I rarely accept the first thing that occurs to me as the final thing. My challenge this past while has been to work on using up the yarn that had been wound onto pirns. I had…
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The Queue
I have always had a queue of warps. One way or another, they have tended to stack up. Now that I have the loom dressed again and it seems to be weaving up nicely (shh – don’t say that too loudly!) it is time to start thinking about the next. I pulled the rust/rose tubes…
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Playing Around
With the ‘death’ of my old computer I lost some of my tools that I’d learned how to use and make work for me. One of them was the ability to copy a draft in Fiberworks, paste the draft into a graphics program, and then save that to my photo file. That graphics program went…
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Sunny Days
March blew in like the proverbial lion and today we are being treated to sunshine flooding into the living room. With renewed desire to Get Stuff Done, I have been pulling yarn for potential tea towel warps. The above draft was used last year, I think, and I quite like it. I may use it…
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Sunny Days
March blew in like the proverbial lion and today we are being treated to sunshine flooding into the living room. With renewed desire to Get Stuff Done, I have been pulling yarn for potential tea towel warps. The above draft was used last year, I think, and I quite like it. I may use it…
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Sunny Days
March blew in like the proverbial lion and today we are being treated to sunshine flooding into the living room. With renewed desire to Get Stuff Done, I have been pulling yarn for potential tea towel warps. The above draft was used last year, I think, and I quite like it. I may use it…
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And it Goes On
currently ignoring this tower of boxes with who-knows-what in them starting on another tea towel warp planning – colours are not ‘true’ but close When I talk about retiring I am not talking about not weaving. I retired from production weaving for sale. This allowed me to close my business, get out from under the…
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Endings
Endings. Can be traumatic. Can be therapeutic. Can be joyous. Today saw some endings. One huge, one little. Little one was finishing the above towels. I called this design waterlilies, partly because it sort of, kind of, reminded me of Monet’s paintings of waterlilies. Same sort of colours, same sort of shapes. Inspiration can come…