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  Twist by Michelle Boyd I am privileged to know many people in the weaving community, but also?   The spinning community.  Because we are all one community – a blend of people who study the nature of fibres and making yarn, and people who use those yarns in various ways. So when I hit a…

  A selection of cotton yarns Assumptions.  We all have them.  They are based on what we have been told is ‘fact’, or on our (possibly limited) experience. One of the things I am ‘testing’ for the next article is an assumption.  Given I’ve done quite a lot of weaving, I knew there were things…

  Yesterday I beamed the next warp and today I will start threading.  My back isn’t happy with beaming, or threading, so I’m not sure if I can finish threading today.  I should be able to make a good start on it though.  The warp is 2/20 mercerized cotton at 40 epi at 20″ in…

  It is a new era and an uncertain one. Stay true to yourself.  Do not obey in advance.  Help others who need it.  Light someone else’s candle. All pithy comments that don’t solve what is currently wrong with our world, but the best thing we can do right now is to remain steadfast. Don’t…

  Today I am heading back to the loom.  I took 3 days ‘off’ from weaving and did some ‘light duty’ tasks in the studio.  I’m hoping that helps the jabs I got on Friday work ‘better’.  Tomorrow I will be talking to my doctor and requesting the next pain med on the list.  I…

  2/16 cotton warp, singles linen weft I might call these tea towels ‘perfect’ except I know the rocky road I travelled to get them to the wet finished state.  And not all the ‘imperfections’ were fixed.  If you leave them on purpose they aren’t mistakes? I’ve been weaving with this linen as weft for…

  Two days ago I began crunching the numbers for the next article as the yarn was all in hand.  I had a rough idea of what I wanted to do, but I needed to do some serious thinking about how I would get there in the most efficient way.  I want to use all…

  available here This morning I read a comment that weaving was just a matter of trial and error. Well, yes.  But there are literally dozens of highly skilled *and knowledgeable* people who can narrow down the choices that new weavers make.  Some of us have written books, answered questions on weaving groups, taught classes/workshops,…

  available here This morning I read a comment that weaving was just a matter of trial and error. Well, yes.  But there are literally dozens of highly skilled *and knowledgeable* people who can narrow down the choices that new weavers make.  Some of us have written books, answered questions on weaving groups, taught classes/workshops,…

  available here This morning I read a comment that weaving was just a matter of trial and error. Well, yes.  But there are literally dozens of highly skilled *and knowledgeable* people who can narrow down the choices that new weavers make.  Some of us have written books, answered questions on weaving groups, taught classes/workshops,…