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The Roycroft Summer Art Festival is over. The weather was conducive to selling scarves – not too hot & muggy. In fact, it was a bit chilly, making people want to look at warm things. So what of my new weaving sold? First to go were the two eggshell huck lace scarves. With a show [...] One of the things people wanted at the Kenan show was more scarves in white or eggshell. I’d ordered the silk in white, and thought I’d get it in time to weave with it, so wanted to make something in eggshell. I recently bought some eggshell cashmere & silk yarn, so perfect. I decided to [...] I really liked the potential in the weaving pattern I’d used in the orange and cream cashmere silk scarves, even though it’s extremely subtle in those scarves. So I wanted to use it again in a different fiber. I decided on some lovely rayon I have, using a dark forest green for the majority of the [...] Yes, I’ve been gardening, mowing the lawn, and making jelly, but I’ve also been weaving. What I haven’t been doing is blogging. So I’m going to cram the last 3 warps into one post. First I wove three scarves in some of Tammy’s hand painted 8/2 Tencel, in a colorway she calls Silver Linings. [...] I finished weaving another warp of three cashmere & silk scarves. I’m so glad I discovered the trick of preparing the warp so I can do three at a time without pulling out my hair! This time I wanted to try a woven lace pattern that was a bit more complex, requiring me to use my [...] |
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