Category: workshops
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Beginning Weaving Workshop
Well, I didn’t finish the warp on the AVL, but I’m about as ready for the Beginning Weaving workshop tomorrow as I can be. I’ll bring my own warping board to demo on, but I’ve wound the warps for everyone. Once everyone is working on their own, I’ll wind the next warp for the guild…
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Rolling On…
Here is a towel with a twill sequence, showing the hem area leading into the beginning of the pattern. This is the cloth as it looks rolling onto the cloth storage roller. The towel here was done with a twill block tie up giving more areas of ‘solid’ colour than the twill lines shown above.…
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Before and After
Here is a photo showing the rayon chenille Big Scarf before and after wet finishing. The pattern is somewhat more obvious before finishing, partly because I gave the scarf a hard press which flattened the chenille and made it gleam. It also changed the feel of the fabric, which I like more than the unpressed,…
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No Weaving Today
Looks like there will be no weaving for me today. The morning was spent getting the place mats and runners I pressed yesterday trimmed, tagged, priced, inventoried and delivered to the local consignment shop. (I also swung by the local book shop to buy Doug some Christmas presents.) 🙂 This afternoon I updated the Gamps…
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Handwoven
The January/February Handwoven arrived today. My article on fulling Harrisville yarn is on page 24/25. I also have the Endnotes essay on the last page. 😀 For anyone interested, there is a video clip on my web site showing one way of fulling by hand. Go to http://laurafry.com then click on Store and CDWeaver. The…