The man from the nearby guild came over and picked up the loom on Thursday. He’d done his homework and found a post on Dawn McCarthy’s blog that told him the castle came off the sides of the loom pretty easily. It sure did, once you knew were to look and how to do it. […]
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Since I had the Macomber treadles tied up for braided twill and my feet knew the treadling pattern after the baby blanket, I decided to prepare a warp for some braided twill scarves. I chose an 8/2 black rayon for the warp, intending on weaving three different colors of weft. First was a red […] The other day I was wondering why I was able to both weave so many more pieces in March and keep up better with the blog posts. It didn’t take too long for me to come up with the answer. My hours at my paycheck job jumped substantially. So instead of weaving 32 scarves like […] After loving the Carnations handwoven scarves, I decided to use another new-to-me colorway – Chestnut Rose. The bamboo-cotton variegation was very earthy, and while that tends not to be my favorite to wear, I know lots of people like those colors. I measured the warp for four scarves, dressed the loom, threaded for big […] Since I haven’t posted in a week, today will be a twofer. And you may get more tomorrow, too. When I received my latest batch of hand painted bamboo-cotton yarn, I got to see some of Tammy’s new colorways that I’d ordered. Some I thought were stunning, some verged on being too bright for my […] |
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