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Winding up

Today I got the last two bouts of ED & WL’s warps wound.

Bout 3 was pale yellow to pale green to turquoise.

The last bout was turquoise to peacock. Apparently I didn’t take any pix of it.

Then I spread the warp in the raddle and got it beamed – wound on the […]

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 […]

Out of my hands

Sometimes decisions are taken out of our hands. It’s just the way life is.

As planned, I finished weaving ML’s wrap today. Went to the shipment of Egyptian cotton I’d received for EL’s wrap and wound a bobbin. Then I started winding a second bobbin, when I finally paid attention to what my hands […]

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 […]