September 2011

[gallery link="file"] My highly successful brother-in-law once introduced me to the idea of expectation management. It is when you focus on your expectations as well as the outcome in order to have a successful result. So, I am practicing expectation management.

[gallery link="file" columns="4"] I wove for two days on the clasped weft project, started, stopped, started, stopped, but I couldn’t figure out how to make it look good. So, I cut off what I had woven to wash, iron and assess.

[gallery link="file"] I am working on some SLOW CLOTH. It is a warp of lovely combed wool from Brassard at 28 epi in a undulating twill-ish threading, but experimenting with clasped weft. I am clasping with 3 colors and attempting to

[gallery link="file" columns="2"] I feel like the brave little tailor. I have been working in the studio during the day, but after dinner I buckle down to hemming the, what now seem like, thousands of towels I have woven recently. I

[gallery link="file" columns="2"] My heart is broken. We are “reduced nesters.” We took our middle son to college yesterday - unpacked him, met his very nice roommate, saw all the beautiful, wonderful, lively, full-of-potential youth swarming the campuses of RISD and

[gallery link="file" columns="2"] I have been redeemed as a weaver through a series of organic cotton dish towels. My faith has been restored. I might be a little premature because they are being spun in the washing machine as I write.

I finished the warp and ended up with some seriously unattractive towels - It is pretty depressing to spend 3 days and 6 yards of warp to get five towels that I would not even look at if they were

[gallery link="file"] I am weaving the last towel on a 6-yard towel warp using my new love, Brassard 16/2 cottolin. I wound a warp with three somewhat desaturated colors: lilac, pale blue and periwinkle. I wanted soft, absorbent towels so I