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Old waves, new wraps

The other day I stopped at a thrift store and picked up some embroidery hoops. I thought if the waves weaving was going to work at all, it’d be stretched in hoops. So without spending any real time in placement, I simply stuck 3 hoops on the piece and hung it over my full glass […]

Weaving with a rainbow

I was away from home all day yesterday and have a day full of commitments tomorrow, so I really wanted to get as much as possible of EL’s wrap woven today.

It always makes me happy when, late in the afternoon, the rainbow created by the big crystal hanging in my window lands […]

Not hard

I started weaving the baby wraps. I wove a few motifs with scrap yarn to spread the warp and find & correct any threading errors. Then I started weaving with AN’s black cotton weft. It gave each of the six warp colors a pop.

I was quite happy that even with my other commitments […]

In Like a Lion

On Friday & Saturday afternoons the weather was just lovely. Although the temperature wasn’t high, the breeze on my face felt more like spring than the bitter wind of winter. I took my old camera outside with me Saturday afternoon and took some pictures of the sweetness of animal tracks in the snow.

Today […]

Making up time

On Thursday I finished weaving PW’s wrap and started on JJ’s, as planned. Here the weft is switching from black tencel to royal blue cotton.

I got about 40″ of JJ’s woven on Thursday. A similar amount woven on Friday morning but then no weaving for the rest of the day. I apparently pinched […]