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I haven’t posted about weaving in so long, you probably thought I haven’t been weaving. Not true. I finished the purple cashmere silk scarves, and I’m really happy with the finished product. As you can see in the photo, they are extremely fine gauge and lightweight. The 50-50 blend of cashmere and silk means […] Thanks to my daughter, I recently decided to try some weaving in a cashmere silk blend. I ordered two different colors in a very fine yarn, actually a thread, since it’s 6,000 yards per pound. The colors are really beautiful — a deep, dark, purple like the royals used to wear, and an earthy, coppery […] A few years ago when I first saw a scarf handwoven in a log cabin pattern, it blew me away. It was completely beyond me how this pattern could possibly be done. I spoke with the weaver, who insisted it was really easy. Huh. I could see that it was a tabby weave, but how […] I’m still working on bamboo cotton handwoven scarves. I really like this colorway of Tammy’s, which she calls Blue Violet. And it sure is. It even includes a nice deep green like the leaves of a violet. Pretty, pretty, pretty. Again, I wove each of the scarves on this warp slightly differently. Â On the […] Yikes! How has a whole week gone by without me posting?! Trust me, I have been keeping busy. I was babysitting for my grand-dog for a week while my daughter was out of town. Baxter kept us all amused for 5 of the 6 days he was with us. Then he got bored and we […] |
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