June 2010

[gallery link="file"] Well, this is what happened. . . I wanted 6 yards of fabric for my coat. Okay, I wound a warp six yards long . . . duh, after planning every one of those 800 something threads you would

[gallery link="file"] I got the six yards of coat fabric off the loom yesterday and emailed felting guru Chris White (check out her website - Magpie Designs - amazing) about fulling six yards of fabric. She suggested posting a query online

[gallery link="file" columns="2"] Yeah! Six yards of the 59” wide deflected doubleweave coat fabric are woven. My AVL (new best friend) behaved beautifully (after a good talking to @&#&^#@). I threaded it on 14 shafts so my nemeses shafts 15 &

[gallery link="file" columns="2"] I’m somehow elated by my new warping trapeze(s). I have intended to put one up for a while, but I finally put one up for each of the studio looms, and now I actually get a thrill from

[gallery link="file" columns="2"] So, since my last entry I have been fretting about the Gulf coast oil spill and then trying to drown my sorrows in yarn and heddles. I have “finished’ another first draft of my overshot on opposites masters

[gallery link="file"] Another Masters project semi-completed. This is the tufting/looping project (ultimately to be a pillow top). My idea was that it would be interesting to use an overshot draft as a template for looping/tufting. Typically a design is graphed out

[gallery link="file"] The blog entries are scarily far apart - scary because I think of them as a log of projects in process or finished . . . On Friday after my Scary Coat, (the saga continues) tailoring session with Cheryl Rezendes,