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It Got Worse

This was a REALLY busy week at my paycheck job. Instead of working 2 or 3 days I had to work 5. Long ones. Yesterday was our largest annual fund raiser, and it requires lots of effort. Thankfully, it’s over now.

As a result of all that time away from home, I had little time […]

Making a New One

A new mistake, that is. While I’m pretty good at not repeating my mistakes, I seem to be excellent at finding new ones to make.

I wound the two remaining bouts for KC & CW’s baby wraps, spread it in the raddle, and beamed it. I started threading the heddles. All was going well. […]

Warping Outside

The yarn for the next batch of four custom handwoven baby wraps finally arrived. After getting a bunch of errands and other tasks done this morning, I finally got back to babies this afternoon.

It was the first time I’ve been able to work outside in a L…O…N…G time. I moved my warping mill out […]

Hard work & creativity

I promised I’d take photos of KM & TA’s wraps outside in the natural light when they were done. Yesterday was overcast – the perfect day for photos.

Here’s TA’s.

I took a picture of KM’s while I was drying it, but forgot to get one after it was dry & pressed.

I used […]

Sooooo Different

TA & KM are sharing a custom baby warp, both handwoven, but that’s where the similarities end. Completely different tie up and weaving pattern, color, and yarn. KM has a twilight silk weft in a simple zigzag pattern, TA has a deep purple cotolin weft in my standard hearts pattern. So the way these […]