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Back in May I wove some lace ‘checkerboard’ scarves in bamboo. Although I called it huck at the time, it’s not really. It’s a Swedish lace. I’m certain that’s neither important nor meaningful to anyone but a weaver. Anyway, I liked the way the scarves looked even if the checkerboard pattern only showed up if […] Like most weavers, I have quite a stash of yarns. When I’m at a show (not very common for me) and I see yarn I like at a good price, I buy it. Then I come home and have to put it away, and sometimes forget about it. Months later I’m looking in one […] Laura Fry, a talented weaver who’s happy to share her expertise, just put out another publication — A Good Yarn: Cotton. Complete with actual weaving samples, 10 each in both pre- and post-finishing states, A Good Yarn is a wealth of information, predominantly information that isn’t available elsewhere. No one denies that. Some people, however […] Despite my best intentions, I didn’t make myself actually tag scarves as I finished them. I found the little mind game I played on myself interesting. Since a scarf can’t be tagged before it’s received a final pressing, I stacked them up to press instead of doing the pressing as I went along. Did some […] Since I had the Macomber treadles tied up for braided twill and my feet knew the treadling pattern after the baby blanket, I decided to prepare a warp for some braided twill scarves. I chose an 8/2 black rayon for the warp, intending on weaving three different colors of weft. First was a red […] |
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