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Waves off loom

Today I wove that last foot or so of the waves and cut the piece off the loom. I decided I couldn’t decide if this was good enough for a jury until I get it framed. There’s enough length for 3 sections. The first section I wove is just not very dramatic.

The […]

Transitions

I have one more hands-on jury piece to weave. I had 4 ideas: one I needed to order a cone of rayon to implement, two I thought would require a few tries to get it right, and one that I thought I could implement relatively quickly. So I ordered that cone of yarn and while […]

Switching it up

The weaving went smoothly for the black weft. The second wrap on TA’s warp is white Egyptian cotton. Here I’m changing colors.

Just before this shot I had a period of panic. I should have had 2 tubes of the white yarn, but had only 1. I checked the invoice – yep, only […]

Darn it!

I didn’t see this mistake while I was threading the reed. Or while I was tying on to the front apron. Not until I wove the first pattern, at which point it became glaringly obvious. This warp is threaded at 24 ends per inch, 2 per dent in my 12 dent reed. But there […]

Subtlety

TA already has 2 of my handwoven baby wraps. But she was the ‘sister’ on both of those. That is, she wasn’t able to choose the warp colors, only her weft color & weaving pattern. She wanted a chance to start from the beginning.

Today I was able to finish weaving that second bling scarf […]