Continuing my custom weaving orders, I wove this handsome alpaca scarf. My customer has a forest green coat with brown trim, and wanted these colors in the pattern I’d woven earlier in the red, gray & black. Since both of the colors in the new scarf are a similar value, the houndstooth pattern doesn’t […]
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I tried a soup recipe from one of my Christmas presents: 400 Soups. It’s a Bacon Lentil soup, supposed to be more stew-like. I make a pretty good lentil soup, so thought I’d really like this. Bacon? Come on, how could that be bad?! Well, I was disappointed. It was just ok. Not hearty […] Although it took a lot of talking to myself, out loud, I did get the white bamboo scarves woven. I tried a few pictures of the finished scarf from different angles, but none of them showed the really lovely diamond pattern to its best advantage, although you can see it here in parts of this […] Moving forward on my third custom order, the same woman who wanted the rice bamboo scarf also wanted one in snow white. I wanted to give her some diversity – not the same weaving pattern in both scarves. So I played with my weaving software, Fiberworks, to come up with a design that I liked. […] The second custom weaving order was for a handwoven bamboo scarf. Although most of us would call the color eggshell or natural, the yarn manufacturer calls it rice, so that’s what I call it, too. I’ve made this color before, but was out of it, so it turned into a special order. My customer […] |
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