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A bit of ouchy

I was gone all day Tuesday, playing with my grandson & daughter in the morning, taking a class at the Weaver’s Guild of Rochester in the afternoon, so no weaving progress that day.

While I was away my firewood guy was here, cutting & splitting the remaining wood to fill my basement. So […]

Longer than usual

I’ve started working on the next warp for baby wraps. This warp, for ML & JJ, needs to be longer than usual. That means I have to go around my warping mill more times to get enough length. In order to do that, I have to wind fewer threads in each bout. So instead […]

Natural Light

I’ve known for a long time that natural light will give me better color in my photos than artificial light. Unfortunately I can’t make that happen at my loom.

Today I cut HR & YF’s wraps off the loom and did the machine hemming. I still have a bit of hand work to do before […]

Updates

Here’s the binding after I re-sewed it. I haven’t pressed it yet; it will look even better after that.

Plus….I was able to weave 80″ of YF”s wrap today without a hitch. WHEW!!! Disaster averted!

In order to make sure the Tasmanian devil didn’t strike again, every time the warp needed to be […]

Problem solved, new problem

I carefully took the puckery binding off that blanket, then lot the problem move around in my brain for a bit.

DOH! I had this problem before, and solved it, and blogged about it! All I had to do was go find that blog post and see how I did it.

Although I did use […]