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Weaving Wednesday
Wow, I have a confession to make. I wound this warp for the newest loom in what is rapidly becoming my fleet. I picked the loom up over the Thanksgiving holiday. It’s an upgrade, it has 6 treadles...
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Back to Weaving
I had grand plans over the holiday break to weave some towels as gifts for family and friends. As often happens the best laid plans . . . This is the first project I have put on the new/used loom I...
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Weaving Wednesday – Huck Warp
Wow, what seems like months was finally finished last night. Between illness, snowstorms and other cancellations I haven’t been able to work on this at all. Finished the warp last night and am proud...
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Weaving Wednesday – Huck Lace
This week in weaving class I continued to work on my huck towels. I finished the requisite 33″ on the first draft discussed last week – not without an issue that was causing me no small amount of...
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Weaving Wednesday – April Fools
Last night’s weaving class was one disaster after another it seemed. My towels were tracking funny in the loom, the more I wove the worse it got until the weft had taken on a decidedly diagonal line....
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Weaving Wednesday – The Huck Experiment Continues
Last night this is what I did at the beginning of class. I had to decide how to weave my third towel in the series. What I had initially thought I was going to use for treadling was not what I ended...
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Weaving Wednesday
I surprised myself with the short amount of time it took to weave this runner. I wound and warped my loom last Wednesday and took it off on Monday morning to fringe and finish. There were a couple...
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Two Things at Once
There are some projects that just don’t go the way you expected. This is another new structure for me – complimentary doubleweave. I pulled out a couple of cones of 5/2 mercerized cotton using the...
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Weaving Hooks and Eyes
The last time I posted about this particular project I had left it wondering what the heck I was doing wrong because the pattern wasn’t looking quite like the draft. My weaving instructor looked at...
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Weaving Inspiration
A few weeks ago I met a long time friend on the Bridge of Flowers in Shelburne Falls. As a gardener I am always amazed at this wonderful place. I posted this photograph after shooting my way along...
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