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Do what works

All blacks are not created equal. Sometimes it’s the dye, sometimes it’s the base fiber, sometimes it’s…I don’t know what. I’m not sure how well it shows in the photo above, but I was finishing CT’s wrap, woven with custom dyed black cotton/hemp blend, and started TS’s wrap, woven with Maurice Brassard’s black cotton. […]

Works for me

Work progresses. The photo shows me beaming the warp for CT & TS. From left to right in the photo the colors are royal, bleu, peacock, emeraude, lavande, magenta, and mauve pale. The blends going from the royal to the emeraude just pull my eye in every time.

I now have the warp threaded […]

Some I love, some I hate

Among my indoor accomplishments yesterday I finished measuring all the yarn for CT & TS’s baby wraps. Isn’t this section to die for? I just love these colors, especially when they’re together.

I also took photos of the six finished scarves made from my painted warps. Once again I took well over 45 pictures […]

First painted warp

I’ll be darned if I can get these scarves to photograph with real-life colors. It just is what it is.

After I got the first of my painted warps beamed, I had several personal and family things call me away from the loom. I finally got it threaded in an undulating twill pattern, a slight […]

What I learned today

First, the finished wraps for RA & NP. It’s pretty much impossible to see the difference in the black tencel and navy cotton wefts unless the light hits them just right.

Meg over at Unraveling has ‘hosted’ a new year looms feature for several years, but apparently not this year. I took shots […]