I have bought many dozens of tubes of cotton from Maurice Brassard since I started weaving baby wraps. I’ve commented to the staff at The Woolery, where I order from, about the fact that there’s never any difference in dye lots. In fact, the yarn isn’t even marked with dye lots. If I order magenta […]
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I gave each of the three red-gradient shawls their hard press today, knowing in advance that this would be where I would decide which was best for a hands-on jury. I think the gold silk weft is my favorite from a distance of 1-3′. Closer than that I think the beat looks a […] I worked really hard today. I spent about 2 hours shoveling snow. Came inside and made some phone calls, vacuumed, and decided I needed to do something sedentary for a while. So I fringed & washed the third red gradient shawl. Tomorrow I’ll press all three, and that’s when I’ll see if there are any […] After the marigold-dyed silk I thought I would use periwinkle rayon for the 3rd shawl with the red gradient warp. Before I committed to that I figured I should try some more colors, so I treadled 1-8 with 4 different colors: from the bottom up it’s periwinkle, seafoam, medium blue, and silver. The first 3 […] |
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