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Old waves, new wraps

The other day I stopped at a thrift store and picked up some embroidery hoops. I thought if the waves weaving was going to work at all, it’d be stretched in hoops. So without spending any real time in placement, I simply stuck 3 hoops on the piece and hung it over my full glass […]

Weaving with a rainbow

I was away from home all day yesterday and have a day full of commitments tomorrow, so I really wanted to get as much as possible of EL’s wrap woven today.

It always makes me happy when, late in the afternoon, the rainbow created by the big crystal hanging in my window lands […]

Not what I expected

When I wound that purple to gold rayon warp I had a vision in my mind of what it would look like woven. I was going to thread a straight twill and zip through it. Then baby wraps intervened, and by the time I could get back to the rayon I decided to modify the […]

Out of my hands

Sometimes decisions are taken out of our hands. It’s just the way life is.

As planned, I finished weaving ML’s wrap today. Went to the shipment of Egyptian cotton I’d received for EL’s wrap and wound a bobbin. Then I started winding a second bobbin, when I finally paid attention to what my hands […]

Not hard

I started weaving the baby wraps. I wove a few motifs with scrap yarn to spread the warp and find & correct any threading errors. Then I started weaving with AN’s black cotton weft. It gave each of the six warp colors a pop.

I was quite happy that even with my other commitments […]