tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-64423204394215598352024-03-05T12:52:46.973-08:00Tangled WebAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01097515339045594079noreply@blogger.comBlogger70125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6442320439421559835.post-55828675551539270302016-05-16T04:35:00.000-07:002016-05-16T04:39:02.955-07:00Vesterheim Museum<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Many of the textiles are rag rugs or rag bed covers to keep the settlers warm at night. Tme museum also has exhibitions of contemporary crafts, created in the Norwegian tradition. In looking through my photos, I recognize the rug at right. It is very similar to a rug found in the book Favorite Rag Rugs, by Tina Ignell. The interesting thing is I just finished a rug very similar to this following photos and instructions from the book.<br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01097515339045594079noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6442320439421559835.post-43510232979802319372016-01-18T17:43:00.001-08:002016-01-18T17:43:04.195-08:00Deflected Double Weave<div class="separator" style="clear: both;">
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01097515339045594079noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6442320439421559835.post-7161030219131860642015-12-30T19:34:00.000-08:002015-12-30T19:34:17.946-08:00M and W Christmas Towels<div class="MsoNormal">
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Every Christmas, I make Christmas gifts for friends and family and I realized in early December, I didn't have quite enough towels. I usually gift from 8-12 towels. In thinking about a draft for the towels, I settled on Ms & Ws because the last name of four of the recipients begins with W and it seemed appropriate. I had plenty of 8/2 cotton in several shades of pink, red and purple that seemed festive for Christmas gifting. <br />
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I put a short warp on the Baby Wolf in Montana for weaving small bags. I planned to use a warp dominant structure, since the weft might be plarn (plastic yarn - cut up plastic grocery bags). Another requirement was to utilize cotton yarn that I had in my stash, so either 8/2 or 5/2 cotton. Searching through the warp rep projects in old Handwoven magazines, I found this 6 shaft plain weave, using thick and thin weft to create different warp stripe or block patterns. I wove enough for 6 small bags, 5 which had flaps of handwoven fabric and one used a button closure. All had straps made from the same 5/2 cotton doubled in an 8 strand kumihimo pattern. I wove several using plastic bags for the thick weft and several with 3/2 cotton doubled as the thick weft. All used a 20/2 cotton for the thin weft. I liked the look and feel of the bags with the 3/2 cotton weft better than the plarn bags.<br />
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Structure Almost Rep Weave<br />
Source Handwoven Sept 2005<br />
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I decided I needed to make some little gifty things for the coffee group this year and came up with the idea of Mug Rugs. I saw these in an old issue of Handwoven, and the pattern called for using 3/2 cotton for warp and weft. However, I have plenty of colors of 5/2 cotton in my stash, and decided that the 5/2 would make them a little smaller, closer to the size of a coffee cup or wine glass. The 5/2 cotton in my stash comes from other projects and some arrived through a Facebook purchase. A fellow weaver in Red Lodge, advertised a box of weaving supplies, which included loads of yarn, an inkle loom, a Schacht End Feed Shuttle, a double shuttle and lots of stick shuttles. Oh happy day. The Carolina Blue, turquoise and grey all came from that purchase.<br />
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I will need 10 or 11, if I am counting right, but I ended up with 22. These were begun on one of the looms in Red Lodge and only 7 were completed before we left for the fall. So the one weekend I was in Red Lodge before Christmas, I was weaving in every spare moment.<br />
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Structure Crackle, treadled as summer and winter<br />
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Swarthmore Check is a canvas weave structure and which has doubled threads in both the warp and the weft. Because there are doubled weft threads, it also requires a floating selvedge to catch the double wefts. I wove this in a number of different patterns, some with just a couple of wide weft stripes and some with weft stripes throughout, looking a little plaid like.<br />
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Because there are a number of weft floats, these make thirsty towels.<br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01097515339045594079noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6442320439421559835.post-41454618744494336992015-10-16T11:00:00.001-07:002015-10-17T02:58:16.980-07:00Folk Art Towels<div class="MsoNormal">
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Towels, more towels, but I never seem to have enough of them. Dish towels make great gifts for folks especially for house gifts and as thank you gifts. At Christmas, they make a great little something extra for friends and relatives. This pattern comes from Handwoven March 2014 and was an easy 6 shaft pattern to weave, with wonderful color contrast between the red, yellow and black.<br>
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Structure Twill and Plain weave<br>
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I have reached the age where many of my friends are having grandkids, and I have been having fun making baby blankets for the little ones. The last couple that I made were delivered after the babies were born, so I decided I needed to have an "inventory" of blankets on hand. </div>
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The only other issue is that the first baby born was a girl and this blanket was woven in blue and white. Oh well, I don't think Ella's parents will be raising a girly girl and won't mind a little change up in the nursery. </div>
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Structure Houndstooth Huck<br />
Source Indiana Weaving Guild Baby Blankets<br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01097515339045594079noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6442320439421559835.post-3359242364817332722015-10-12T06:32:00.000-07:002015-10-12T06:32:52.522-07:00Napkin Exchange Final Results<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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The napkin exchange project was finished over a year ago, but I never got around to posting photos of the 7 napkins I received from my fellow weavers. This was a fun project and I need to participate in other exchanges, whether its more napkins, towels, or other handwoven items. I enjoyed thinking, planning and weaving up the napkins, knowing that they will be used by seven other weavers. We had plenty of time to complete the exchange so there were no deadlines to worry about. My only issue was that I would not be in town the day of the exchange, so I had to deliver my napkins in advance and not get to see the other three groups. I wove three additional napkins in my color and added to the 7 from the exchange, I now have 10 napkins and 10 matching placemats. The three napkins I wove are the three on the right hand side of the bottom row.<br />
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I joined a Towel Exchange this summer that I found through a weaving group on Facebook. I joined primarily cause I had such a great expereience with our Weaving Guild's napkin exchange. This exchange had very few requirements, other than getting the towels completed by the end of August. We used the three photos above for color inspiration, and each of the participants could pick one of the three as the basis for selecting yarn.</div>
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I sent off 4 towels and received these four gorgeous towels back from members of the group, with 4 very different structures" Bumbaret, Ms & Ws, Summer and Winter and Shadow Weave blocks. I received towels from, British Columbia, Indiana, Florida and Michigan.<br />
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I wove towels in Turned Twill, using purple, pink and orange in the warp and weft colors of navy, green or light blue. I made 6 towels on this warp, so was able to keep 2 towels.<br />
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Two weavers working in the 1950's, Josephine Estes and Bertha Gray Hayes, have studied and designed miniature overshot patterns. Traditional overshot designs often have pattern repeats that are 200 to 400 ends. These designs make wonderful coverlets, blankets and throws, but they are not suitable for smaller and narrower woven cloth like scarves and towels. Josephine and Bertha's drafts are designed with repeats of 20-50 ends. Weaving Designs by Bertha Gray Hayes was published in 2009 and Josephine Estes drafts are available at the University of Arizona weaving site <a href="http://www.cs.arizona.edu/patterns/weaving/wtopic_overshot.html">here</a>. I picked up a skein of Autumn Rainbow Mini Mochi recently and wanted to make a scarf using the Mini Mochi as the pattern yarn, which would showcase the slow color changes of the yarn. The draft is Josephine Estes' Rings and Crosses.<br />
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I recently completed a 3 day workshop with Tom Knisely on Boundweave. It was a great workshop, primarily because Tom is such an entertaining teacher and also because I will definitely weave a rug or two using the techniques learned during the workshop.<br />
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For the class, we each brought our own loom to the Folk Art Center, warped with doubled carpet warp at 6 working epi in a rosepath threading. We used either rug wool or mop cotton yarns for the weft in a variety of treadling sequences. I ended up with a sample piece that is about 70 inches long and thick and sturdy enough for a rug using rug wool as weft. The weft yarns were mill ends from R & M Yarns in Tennessee and some beautiful wool yarns picked up during my recent trip to New Mexico at Tapetes de Lana. <br />
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Exercise 1, shown in the top photo in cream and camel, is a two color treadling woven on opposites.<br />
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Exercise 2, 3 color with the treadling reversed to create "eyeballs".<br />
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Exercise 3, with 4 colors, resulting in a flame stctch look. </div>
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Exercise 4 with 3 colors<br />
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Exercise 5 with 4 colors and the treadling reversed to create diamonds<br />
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Exercise 6, 2 colorsAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01097515339045594079noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6442320439421559835.post-2969987804433341162014-10-19T09:12:00.000-07:002014-10-19T09:12:45.042-07:00Placemats to Match<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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My weaving guild, the Western North Carolina Fiber/Handweavers Guild, had a napkin exchange this summer. The finished napkins will be exchanged at our Guild meeting in November. Since I am weaving napkins, I decided to weave matching placemats using the same color, Mediterranean Blue. The placemats are woven using a huck boxes pattern. For some reason the placement of the boxes is not centered on the placemat. Next time, I will change the threading to provide more symmetry in the design.<br />
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The placemats are woven with a thick 3/2 cotton set at 12 epi, so they weave up very fast. I ended up with 10 placemats and I will have 10 napkins (7 from the guild exchange and 3 extras that I finished). I have woven these placemats before in Amber Gold and I plan to weave up some napkins to match. However, I recently tried to re-order the yarn from WEBS, and that color is not available in 8/2 cotton, so I will need to weave with the finer 10/2 cotton.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01097515339045594079noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6442320439421559835.post-65071636373229733972014-10-11T11:07:00.000-07:002014-10-11T11:07:02.053-07:00Napkin Exchange<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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The Western North Carolina Handweavers/Fiber Guild is hosting a napkin exchange. There are three groups of eight weavers participating, with our finished napkins completed by November. Each weaver selects a draft or pattern and a color for their napkins and then distributes 325 yds of yarn for weft to the other seven members in the group. I have picked a medium blue with a little turquoise in it called Mediterranean Blue. <br />
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All of us will warp our loom with natural 8/2 cotton and thread it based on the pattern we have selected. I will weave up the yarn from each of my group members and return to them finished napkins. At the end of the exchange in November, I will have eight napkins woven in Mediterranean Blue and natural, in eight different patterns. The napkins should be about 18" square when finished, so they need to be 20" wide on the loom with a woven length of 22" to allow for hemming.<br />
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The next challenge was selecting a draft that would be interesting yet relatively easy to follow the treadling sequence. Making eight napkins requires 7 yards of finished cloth. I had enough warp on the loom when I finished the 7 napkins for the other members of my group to make three napkins for myself in 3 different patterns on the same threading.<br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01097515339045594079noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6442320439421559835.post-88380779655996391552014-10-01T16:21:00.000-07:002014-10-01T16:26:50.668-07:00New Mexico Fiber Trail<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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New Mexico has been the home of generations of weavers and spinners, working to make blankets and rugs from homespun wool. The state tourism office has identified handcrafters throughout the state and put together three separate Fiber Arts Trails, some of the sites follow the traditional methods and some produce more contemporary crafts. I had a work trip planned for Santa Fe last month and flew in a day early to visit old friends and find a few of the sites on the Trail. <br />
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I flew into Albuquerque on Sunday and the first stop was Las Vegas, New Mexico. My friends lived about twenty miles north of Las Vegas and there was a weaving shop listed in the Trail Guide in Las Vegas. However, the guide was out of date and this shop was no longer a weaving studio, but instead a coffee shop that had a single loom and was also closed on Sunday.<br />
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Monday morning I headed out to see a few more spots on the Trail, first stop Mora, NM and the Tapetes de Lana spinning mill and retail shop in Mora. Tapetes is a nonprofit in the area established to help folks in this very poor, very rural area with employment at their small spinning mill and through selling handwoven rugs and blankets in the store in Mora. The wool comes from churro sheep, a breed that has been raised in this area for generations. In Mora, I purchased 3 skeins of wool for a rug workshop I will be taking in a few weeks. The other great thing about Tapetes is they also have a coffee bar, so I could refuel for the trip over the mountain to Chimayo.<br />
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Next stop on the Trail was Chimayo, to visit Ortega's Weaving Shop. This store and studio has been in business for over 100 years, weaving blankets, rugs and producing cloth that for vests and coats.</div>
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My last stop before heading to Santa Fe and the start of my meeting was in Espanola. Espanola is known as the heroin capital of New Mexico, not a place that would likely house a very large weaving nonprofit. The Espanola Valley Fiber Arts Center is located in an old retail store building and full of looms, yarn, a dyeing kitchen. I would love to live close to this center, because it looks like the facility is frequently filled with weavers. I purchased 4-5 pounds of Pendleton blanket selvages at EVFAC for making rag rugs. I could buy these from Pendleton directly but I was able to pick colors and get the right amount for a rug and I didn't have to meet Pendleton's 30 pound minimum order. I liked them so much I drove the 30 miles back to the Center at the end of the week to buy another 5 pounds in a different colorway.<br />
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My weaving guild, Western North Carolina Fiber/Handweavers Guild (WNCFHG), is having a 3 day workshop next week in Asheville. The instructor is Tom Knisely, teaching us techniques in Boundweave. Tom was chosen Weaving Teacher of the Year by the readers of Handwoven magazine a few years ago. He is the author of several books and videos and is a frequent contributor to Handwoven. I am excited about the session and looking forward to learning new tools that will help with rug weaving.<br />
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I weave primarily with cottons, and plant based synthetics like tencel and bamboo, but we will be using a heavy weight wool yarn (800-1000 yds/lb.) for the weft for the workshop. I didn't have any wool yarn so that required adding more yarn to my stash. I ordered some from R & M Yarns in Tennessee, mostly in neutrals and browns. To liven things up a bit, I found a few more colors in New Mexico last week along the New Mexico Fiber Trail.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01097515339045594079noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6442320439421559835.post-82381664387543228762014-09-16T13:24:00.002-07:002014-09-16T13:24:30.515-07:00Turned Twill Towels<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I recently finished another run of 6 twill towels in a turned twill. Twill towels seem to be my summer go to project in getting ready for holiday present giving. However, these have only been off the loom a week and 3 are already gone. Two for house gifts and one for a birthday present for our niece. So much for getting Christmas presents done early this year.<br />
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I do not have a 12 dent reed in Montana and so used a 10 dent reed -2-2-3, to get close to 24 epi, resulted in a pretty good weight for the towels. I used both 10/2 mercerized and 8/2 unmercerized in the weft and once I wet finished them, I like the look and feel of the 10/2 better than the 8/2. They still seem to be pretty absorbent due to the 8/2 cotton in the weft.<br />
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Georgia Yarns had a special on bamboo yarns and I couldn't resist. The yarn is fairly heavy, comparable to a 3/2 or a 5/2. I had some natural bamboo in my stash so weaving a two color cloth made sense. The pattern was published in Handwoven March/April 2005 for a scarf and the larger yarn and the looser set meant the structure would work well for a shawl.<br />
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Weaver's can't resist the lure of new yarn, no matter how much yarn we have in our stash, it's never enough. What we have may not be the right color, the right size, or have the right qualities for the project in mind. Sometimes it's the fact that it is on sale, even though we don't have a clue what we will do with it. My yarn stash had expanded to the point it was falling off the shelves and I needed a new system. A yarn tree seemed to be a good solution.<br />
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At the same time, I was offered a couple of spinner racks from my dear friends at the local independent bookstore. They were replacing racks and were going to throw out these racks, one was an old card rack and the other held T-shirts. The T-shirt rack already had oval slots on the sides and all that we needed to do was add 6" metal pegboard hooks to hold the cones. The yarn tree holds 90 cones, and it's already full.<br />
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The other spinner rack was built on a base with great casters and a smooth spinning action, perfect to turn into a warping mill. We removed the plastic slides that held the cards from the base. DH set to work and put together this mill, it has a 2 yard circumference and has adjustable sliding pegs on 3 sides, which should give maximum flexibility in measuring out warps.<br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01097515339045594079noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6442320439421559835.post-79969546765777372612014-05-14T08:33:00.002-07:002014-05-14T08:33:53.508-07:00Crackle Weave Workshop<div class="MsoNormal">
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Teena Tuenge of Western North Carolina Fiber/Handweavers Guild recently taught a weekend workshop on crackle weave. The workshop was a fundraiser for the Blue Ridge Fiber Show which will be held in the fall of 2014 at the WNC Arboretum. The workshop was attended by about 20 participants in the auditorium of the Folk Art Center. This was a workshop where we all warped our looms in advance and then spent two days playing with weave structure, treadling, and color sampling. Teena provided us with treadling and tie up instructions for about 20 different weave structures, all using the same crackle threading.<br />
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By the end of Sunday, I had woven over twenty different samples using the crackle threading, mostly crackle tie-up but a wide variety of treadlings. Granted most of the samples were only a few inches long, but enough to tell how the different treadling affects the final cloth. The crackle notebook that I created with the samples and treadling instructions, finally inspired me to wet finish the samples and finish the notebook for a class I took a year ago at Arrowmont on Turned Beiderwand. <br />
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After weaving the samples, I wove off the balance of the warp in the classic crackle treadling and created a lovely piece of cloth, 8" by 30 inches. Once again, I am not sure what the future life of the is will be - a tablet cover, a small purse, or will it stay in place as an unfinished table runner.<br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01097515339045594079noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6442320439421559835.post-87211609470109012802014-05-07T07:28:00.000-07:002014-05-07T07:28:11.636-07:00John C. Campbell Folk School 2014<br />
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I absolutely love spending time at John C. Campbell Folk School. Last month, Gary and I spent a week there immersing ourselves in all things handmade. I took a weaving class with Joann Hall and Gary took a class in woodturning, making bark edged bowls. The theme of the week was Scandinavian Heritage Week, so Swedish weaving was the topic for my week. The class marketing materials described a class with a variety of projects, using fine threads and warping techniques. However, the class project was learning a technique called Swedish Art Weaving, which is similar to tapestry weaving. The class would be weaving a sampler during the week that looked something like the photo below. The sampler uses a linen weft and 3 strands of wool for the pattern weft. It is woven from the back, so you need a mirror to see the pattern as it emerges.<br />
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Most weaving workshops have at least one student who is "difficult". Sometimes, it is an intermediate class and someone shows up who has never woven before. Other times, it is a student that monopolizes the instructor's time, leaving the rest of the class floundering. I was the difficult student during the week, not because I made demands on the instructor, but just because I was off doing my own thing throughout the week. I warped the loom for the class project and then decided, I really didn't want to spend the week, weaving something that I didn't like and using a technique that I likely wouldn't use again. So instead, I toddled off to another loom, picked a pattern and wove some towels. No new techniques learned, but it was enjoyable to spend the week, planning a project, selecting yarns, throwing the shuttle and not thinking about anything beyond the walls of the Folk School.<br />
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I started the project on one of the Folk School's Macomber looms, which is a loom that I have thought might be in my future. It is a substantial loom and can be used for rugs as well as very fine threads. Large used Macombers, with a 48-60" weaving width and up to 16 shafts, can be found for reasonable prices around the country. The one complaint is the hooks attaching the treadles to the lams on the Macombers. They were cumbersome to change, but I did not have a problem with the hooks jumping off the treadles, of course I only wove about an inch, so not a good test. But the warping was comfortable for this 100 end warp.<br />
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The class had a great group of weavers, from Michigan, New York, Tennessee, Kentucky, DC and of course North Carolina. Bill, seen below, even brought his monstrous Glimakra with him. There were several other Glimakra's in the studio and they are amazing looms. All put together with pegs, so they can be assembled relatively easily. Joann, our instructor, is the dealer for Glimakra in the US and she was very helpful to the students in the class with Glimakra looms. I tried out the looms, since I had never woven on a countermarche loom or used a loom with texsolve heddles.<br />
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These two scarves have been on the Newcomb since last winter and I finally finished the second one this month. They took quite a long time because of the goose-eye inlay. The other thing that took quite a while was selecting colors and patterns. You would think that using random colors and treadling would go faster, but I had to consider each pick and how it fit with the rest of the cloth. Much of the weft came from cotton sweaters that I had frogged over the past couple of years. Most of the yarn is cotton, but I had a little raw silk that came on a second hand AVL end feed shuttle that I purchased last year.<br />
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The weft for one of the scarves uses blues, greens and yellows - all very spring like colors. The second scarf is more muted with varying shades of browns and tans. The sett is 16 epi, which is very loose for 8/2 cotton, so it required a soft touch with the beater. The resulting cloth is light enough to wear through the summer. The inspiration for these scarves comes from seeing photographs of the work of Ilse Acke, a handweaver in Bruges, and Susan Johnson of Avalanche Looms in Wisconsin. <br />
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Date Finished April, 2014</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01097515339045594079noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6442320439421559835.post-13620850381212246582014-04-14T18:00:00.000-07:002014-04-21T09:37:11.245-07:00Log Cabin Placemats - NOT<div class="MsoNormal">
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This winter I finished up a pretty piece of cloth, woven in Color and Weave, log cabin pattern. I planned to make a set of placemats, but unfortunately didn't plan for a wide enough warp. I now have 3 yards of cloth, 10 inches wide. I don't have a clue what to do with it, but as a temporary measure it makes a nice table runner with the unfinished edges tucked under. I could hem a section for a table runner, or use it to sew a vest, or make a whole lot of bags. Inspiration may come one day on just what this cloth should become.<br />
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Gary's recent woodturnings, a set of candlesticks and a bark edged bowl, look wonderful on the cloth.<br />
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Date Finished January 2014</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01097515339045594079noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6442320439421559835.post-27850281981376593102014-04-11T14:05:00.000-07:002014-04-11T14:05:05.703-07:00Doubleweave Mug Rugs<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Doubleweave is one of the structures that I have wanted to explore since I started weaving again. I was teaching a friend to weave recently and she picked doubleweave from a project in Handwoven as the weave structure she wanted to use for her second project. The Handwoven project used rayon chenille and she wanted to make cloth using a heavier weight cotton to make a tote bag. I wasn't sure what sett we would need to use for 5/2 cotton, so I decided to put a short warp on to sample and found this pattern for mug rugs, so we could kill two stones with one bird. Glad that we sampled, cause her structure didn't look so good, the colors ended up pretty muddy, but the mug rugs came out great. <br />
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<a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-AvvEcPdwK40/U0cv1RWihTI/AAAAAAAAHRM/Lbfh1SOVjPQ/s1600/DSC_1689.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-AvvEcPdwK40/U0cv1RWihTI/AAAAAAAAHRM/Lbfh1SOVjPQ/s1600/DSC_1689.JPG" height="214" width="320" /></a>Last year I wove an overshot table runner in red and white, that I had hoped to get finished by Christmas. Well, I didn't get it completed till January, so I called it a <a href="http://twicetangledweb.blogspot.com/2013/02/overshot-runner-susan-hanes.html">Valentine's Day table runner</a>. I had similar plans this year to weave small figures using an 8 shaft rosepath threading, including Christmas trees, stars, hearts and gingerbread people. I was not sure exactly what I would do with the cloth, but thought that it could be cut up and made into flat Christmas tree ornaments each about 2 or 3 inches square. My other plan was to make Christmas cards with a cutout in the front cover peeking through to a woven tree or heart as shown on Amanda Cutler's blogpost <a href="http://weave-away.blogspot.com/2013/03/greeting-cards-tutorial.html">here.</a> I ended up with Christmas trees, stars, and hearts. I couldn't find a draft for a gingerbread man that would use only 10 treadles and 8 shafts. I had to change the tie-up for each of these designs. Tim's Treadle reducer <a href="http://www.cs.earlham.edu/~timm/treadle/index.php">program</a> was helpful to reduce some of the drafts from 12 or 13 treadles to the 10 treadles on my loom.<br />
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