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Baby Boy Blankets

Fighting a cold or some other bug, I’m working much more slowly than usual. Still, I got TB’s blanket beamed, threaded, and woven. I also did a ‘doh’ when I realized all I had to do to photograph the underside of a piece on the loom was to get a shot of the as […]

Moving on

I got 10 twill towels off the loom today. They need to be separated, hemmed, washed, dried, & pressed, but that doesn’t have to happen immediately – I’ll just run a quick machine stitch on the first edge since I didn’t make enough of a header to trust it hanging around for long.

Then […]

More Towels

My order of yarn for the baby wraps was scheduled to arrive on Tuesday, but there was a problem and it didn’t come. I knew the box wouldn’t be in my hands until late in the afternoon on Wednesday, so decided I’d put a towel warp on the loom while I was waiting. I […]

Visitors

I’ve had the pleasure of seeing this hen turkey and her chicks off & on for several weeks on my morning walk. When I first saw them mom had 5 babies. I’m sure she started with more — maybe as many as a dozen. Baby wild turkeys are easy prey for lots of animals. […]

Inside & outside

I finished weaving KM & SB’s custom baby wraps today. With a cottolin warp for both and a cottolin weft for KM, the amount of lint under my loom was intense! Seemed to me to be far more than for cotton. If you look closely, you can see that the slits in my treadles are […]