Weaving

[gallery link="file"] More Ms and Os - only this one is Merriment & Optimism instead of Misery & Obstacles. I used the same Strickler draft as inspiration, but this time I turned it and changed the threading quite a bit, etc.

[gallery link="file"] A sample of turned Ms & Os and an example of trying to kill 2 birds with one stone and somehow eating crow. My plan was to use singles linen for my Ms & Os requirement and have enough

[gallery link="file" columns="2"] Today was a very interesting day. I was invited by my good friend Ute Bargmann to the Springfield Weavers’ Guild for a presentation on Maori weaving and a presentation on Pick-up by Ute herself (also known as the

[gallery link="file"] I just got this off the loom after many months - I haven’t washed it yet. It is a sampler blanket experimenting with a large variety of Summer & Winter tie-ups. I used a 2/8 wool warp in a

[gallery link="file"] As part of a wonderful birthday weekend with my sister in New York, I was able to see a small but spectacular exhibit called “The Andean Tunic: 400 BCE to 1800 CE” at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. It

[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