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Now why would I have these 2 tiny dishes of sequins on the stool next to my loom? Could it be I’m using them to add a little bling to a scarf? I warped my loom with 6.5 yards of twilight silk, threading & treadling to insert sequins as I went. Hopefully one […] On Saturday I finished the weaving on JS & LYY’s wraps. I cut them off the loom and took them to my sewing machine. Things went okay for the first 5 straight lines I needed to sew. On the 6th my presser foot start jumping – the problem that caused me to trade in […] I’ve gotten lots of weaving done in the past few days. In fact, I finished weaving JS’s wrap and am more than halfway through YY’s first wrap. I had a bunch of knots in the warp threads so had to replace them. That meant hanging repair threads, each of which required some attention every time […] When I’m measuring the warp for my baby wraps, I have to make 4 ’bouts’ or groups of threads. Each bout is roughly 190 threads wide. Not only is that the capacity of my warping mill, but wider bouts tend to cause beaming problems. I take those bouts over to the loom, insert the […] At the end of each calendar year I have to do a lot of counting. Counting more than 200 cones, pounds, and skeins of yarn, over 150 finished pieces of weaving, and a remarkable amount of beads and precious metals left from my jewelry-making days, especially given how much I’ve already sold. I gather […] |
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