Category: towels
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Working From the Stash
I’ve been trying really hard to work only from my stash and not buy more yarn. Unfortunately I am running out of the colours I want to use! It isn’t that I don’t have yarn – they just aren’t the right colours. 🙁 But I wound this warp today and have a blue/pink one ready…
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Flexibility
One of the advantages of being self-employed is that you set your own schedule – and when Life Happens, you can also change it. I’d intended to go pressing on Monday, making a marathon of it – the curtain fabric, 4 towels and 3 dozen or so scarves. But there is a ‘family’ meeting on…
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Outreach
Next towel – this time 1:3-3:1 twill blocks with 1:3 twill hems. Notice that the selvedge is curling slightly in the hem area – this is totally and completely normal in a 1:3 twill and will get pressed flat during wet finishing. I have been talking to other teachers about how to reach students without…
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Cheat Sheet
Allergy season appears to have arrived in spades and I woke up this morning muzzy headed and not able to think clearly or remember much of anything for any length of time. This, on top of a rather stressful day yesterday meant that winding the next warp to finish the samples (and weave a few…
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Cheat Sheet
Allergy season appears to have arrived in spades and I woke up this morning muzzy headed and not able to think clearly or remember much of anything for any length of time. This, on top of a rather stressful day yesterday meant that winding the next warp to finish the samples (and weave a few…
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Rule of Thumb
When weaving with a smooth yarn I prefer to overlap my weft joins at the selvedge. If the weft is overlapped in the middle of the cloth like this…. …the overlap looks like a slub in the cloth… …like this… The thicker part where the weft overlap occurs will look much more obvious in the…
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Rule of Thumb
When weaving with a smooth yarn I prefer to overlap my weft joins at the selvedge. If the weft is overlapped in the middle of the cloth like this…. …the overlap looks like a slub in the cloth… …like this… The thicker part where the weft overlap occurs will look much more obvious in the…
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An Easy Day
We spent the morning and early afternoon visiting with a group of spinners/knitters/weavers. I managed to hem four of my towels in between chatting. When we got back to the house I dug through the boxes of inventory to see what was left and the fact is, there isn’t much. Especially when I removed the…
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Distractions Galore
More distractions today, starting with a panicked phone call at 4 am from the other mother. Poor Doug wound up having to deal with getting her situation sorted out as well as battling through with the work to be done on mom’s house. We should know tomorrow if the buyer will wait until the work…
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Dreaming of Summer
These colours are right out of my usual palette but aren’t they pretty? Well, I think so, anyway. 🙂 (The blue down below is the bit that tied the last warp onto the apron which will get cleaned off right before I tie this one on.) Before I could even get to the loom, however,…