Category: towels
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A Sunny Day
at last! I got up this morning determined to deal with the critical deadlines and by dint of fierce focus, managed to get everything done – except for one thing and that was because the website I needed wasn’t up due to maintenance. Oh well. I did my part! But I’m getting mighty fed up…
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January 1, 2014
Meg has started a tradition of posting photos of one’s looms on the first day of the new year. The AVL has the tatters of the very red Swedish Snowflake table runner warp left on it. I quite often don’t bother stripping the dregs of the old off until I’m ready to put the next…
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Winter Solstice
For me, the year more properly begins with the winter solstice. While I don’t live nearly as close to the pole as some, the daylight hours get very short at this time of year and with the grey dreary days we have been having, I am longing for more sun. This time of year seems…
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Winter Solstice
For me, the year more properly begins with the winter solstice. While I don’t live nearly as close to the pole as some, the daylight hours get very short at this time of year and with the grey dreary days we have been having, I am longing for more sun. This time of year seems…
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Slip Sliding
back to the Fanny and warping valet warp wound of two 2/8 cotton with one strand of variegated cotton flake ready to transfer the cross – the lease sticks aren’t going anywhere so long as tension is kept on the warp In spite of a whole lot of distractions I did manage to rough sley,…
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MIMO
I’m all about Minimum Input, Maximum Output. For this towel warp, I was using up a limited quantity of yarn for weft. Since I didn’t know how far it would go, rather than design a towel with specific hems and/or border design, I decided to just weave yardage and cut it up to towel length…
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Time and Tide…
…wait for no (wo)man. the end of one towel (on the bottom) in green with the hem showing and the beginning of the next (on top) in 25% brown Fox Fibre colour grown cotton – the line of darker colour is shadow from the weaving on the top Bucket of linen yarns, some of which…
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Sunny Day
What a difference a little sun can make! Not to mention that the slow recovery from my out-of-whack back has made significant progress. 🙂 I got started on the towels using the Fox Fibre colour grown organic cotton this morning. The colour difference at this point is minimal, but this is the 50% coloured cotton…
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Closing Doors, Opening Windows
I’ve been having a lot of fun working with various colours and combinations with the variegated cotton yarns. And I needed more towel inventory, anyway, so it’s all been good. But – in spite of my huge stash – I am running low on sufficient amounts of the colours I want to use so I…
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Opportunities
Really happy with this rose (mostly) towel warp. I only have enough of the rose slub to weave four towels so the rest of the warp will be woven with natural white. It is just day 3 of the new year and already it’s looking very promising. 🙂 This morning I had a long conversation…