Random thoughts of a fiber enthusiast – mostly fiber related, sometimes coherent.
Wednesday * February 8th 2012
Mar26
This is my last piece of the weaving intensive. It called Netting A from Marguerite Davison’s A Handweaver’s Pattern Book (in the Swedish Lace section). The yarn is Crystal Palace Como on my 15 dent reed at 30 epi. This was an interesting exercise because it utilizes skip dent technique, but you only skip one [...]
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Mar25
It was about the time that I was giving up cram and space as anything I would ever do in real life when Janice showed me a piece that she has been sampling. It is based on the skip dent technique from Sharon Alderman‘s Mastering Weave Structures. Janice worked up a sampler with Henry’s Attic [...]
Mar24
This is my second sampler/scarf in the Cram and Space workshop. (click for larger) The warp and weft are a mixture Judith’s hand paint (base yarn is Henry’s Attic Pony) and Mountain Colors Wool Crepe (Rosehip color way). I followed the warp threading order with my weft to maintain symmetry, because I’m all about symmetry. The airy centers [...]
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Mar23
Last week was the March Weaving Intensive with Judith MacKenzie McCuin at Point Bonita (Marin Headlands). And what a glorious week it was. Yes, any week with Judith is glorious, but it was doubly so since spring had sprung with a vengeance in the SF Bay Area. The weather was in the upper 60s/low 70s [...]
Mar15
Well, I finished the Return to Sender spinning and have turned it in. Photos will need to wait until after the unveiling at the conference. I’ll let you know how I did after the judging. I also finished weaving my “Conference Scarf.” I still need to press it before its photo shoot. In lieu of [...]
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