Author: Elisabeth Hill

[gallery link="file" columns="2"] Well, I cut and cut and cut and sewed and sewed and sewed. I am somewhat happy with the results, and I still have a lot of handwork to do . . . oh no! buttonholes - again!

[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,

[gallery link="file" columns="2"] I had been thinking about a master weaver project in embroidery weave, doing drawings, etc for a while. On Wed. I wound the warp and threaded the loom in order to be ready to weave on Thursday. Of

[gallery link="file"] Yesterday, while crazy New England weather hit the 90s - in MAY, I had a great dye day with Gail Callahan and a cast of fiber fanatics. Dyeing is really a great mix of fun with fiber, chemistry class

[gallery link="file"] After my endless yakfest of yesterday, I just wanted to post some photos of my “invention”. I think it worked! The structure is stable and curvy and AN OVERSHOT draft. What do you know . . .

[gallery link="file" columns="2"] I have so much news - I don’t know what to write about first . . .The thing I am most excited about is my new “discovery”. As I was reading about and drafting deflected doubleweave, trying to