Category: Weaving
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Good News
I’ve had a little hiatus from weaving as I have undergone several weeks of eye surgeries. I celebrated a good report from my retina doc with weaving for an animal loving friend. All of her animals are black so they presented a photoshop challenge but, all in all, they turned out pretty well. I have…
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Change of Pace – Painted Warp
A little change of pace for me – a brief interlude with a painted warp and plain weave.
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OVER|UNDER Alphabet
I had a lot of ideas brewing while waiting for my TC2 to arrive. One of them was thinking through how I would weave a book – washable, durable, maybe with pockets and zippers and… you get the idea. As I got to the end of my black and white cottolin warp I decided to…
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Square Bubbles
It had been a while since I wove on Big Sister, my 32 shaft Megado loom – since the summer when I wove fabric for a retirement celebration vest that I wore to Complex Weavers Seminars and HGA’s Convergence Fashion Show last summer. Anyway, back to the story. I have been having a great time…
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We the People
You know how, sometimes, you get a song stuck in your head? For me, that song has been The Preamble to the Constitution from Schoolhouse Rock!. Every time some new craziness has hit the news that song just starts playing in my head. After a couple of months of this I decided to try to…
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Delight in Discovery
Having successfully tied on, see previous post, I jumped in to interpret another watercolor painting as weaving. This time the subject was the 99 year old (she is now 100!) mother of a friend from a photo taken by her granddaughter during an eclipse. I was so inspired by the look of delight on her…
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Tying On – Back to Front
In the last post I shared my (Sort of) Sectional warping. While my dog was checking out the new beam support on the Delta, I carried the beam back to the TC2 and, with my husband’s help, attached it. Two sets of lease sticks later, I was off making good on my weaver’s knot practice.…
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Catching Up, or “What I did with my 2nd warp…”
It has been a busy couple of months. When last I posted I had just about completed my first warp – a black and white cottolin. The last foot of string became signs for the weaving studios at Callanwolde where I teach intermediate 8 shaft floor loom. My first warp was 1200 threads. My 2nd…
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First Threading
Oops, I forgot to document hanging the cross inside the loom behind the heddles. Have to catch up on that one the next time. This video shows threading part way through the process after studying a really great video sent by Digital Weaving Norway. The process is as follows: Here’s a snippet of the user…
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Winding On Solo
My first warp on the TC2 is black and white cottolin. I’m using the top warp beam. The loom is set up with 3 modules deep and 3 modules wide. The steps and comments follow: Attach the warp loops to the back beam. The warp was wound on a warping mill with 2 crosses –…