Weaving

[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

[gallery link="file"] This last weekend was the third annual get together of my sister, myself and our best friends from middle school who happen to be sisters. This year we gathered at my sister’s beautiful house in Amagansett (kids, pets and

[gallery link="file" order="DESC" orderby="title"] I was having a grand old time messing around with dyes during our last Hill class thinking that I still had one more class before I was forced to leave the “womb” and fend for myself on