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My weaving guild is having a napkin exchange. Weave 8 napkins and get 8 back, all different. Sounded like fun and I’m always up for anything fibery and fun. Well, in my experience and overzealousness I’m unable to participate this year. (. I wanted to weave shadow weave napkins using 8/2 cotton. Since I made [...]
Last weekend I had the good fortune to participate in a weaving workshop taught by Jannie Taylor on loom controlled lace. Besides learning about lace weaves it allowed me the opportunity to weave on several different looms including a computerized AVL. Following are some images from the workshop. 16-shaft AVL – I Love Huck Lace [...]
Thank you to all for your comments about my brother. There are no guarantees in this life and I only wished he had lived his life differently. Enough said on that. Here we are on New Year’s Eve. It was the perfect evening for us, we were home by 10:30. In my long absense from [...]
The hubby has returned! He got hired full time by a local medical clinic so he’s back! I’m so happy! Happy dance! While he was in Eugene he started bike riding again, taking a cruise 2 or 3 times a week. Eugene is such a bike friendly town and he really enjoyed his rides. He enjoyed them so [...]
Black Sheep Gathering was great again this year and the weather cooperated by not being too hot. Got to stay with the hubby all weekend so that saved money, money I could spend on a loom. Yep, I bought a used loom. It has Rasmussen Loom Company stamped on it (long out of business?) but [...]
I spent most of my sick day Thursday weaving some bookmarks on my inkle loom. My first project on the loom. Not very imaginative colorwise but the next project will have more pizzazz. In this project I drafted my first inkle pattern, warped for the first time and had an end in mind when I [...]
Below is my first foray into weaving. Here’s my new 32″ Kromski Harp from Woodland Woolworks. When it arrived I more or less set out on my own using the resources at hand. What started out as placemats ended up as placemats after going through a couple of transitions. The warp is Brown Sheep cotton [...]
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