Follow me as I weave along the way
Currently being woven on the loom are Coral inspired towels. The above picture highlights the center of the towel. The border has already wrapped around the front beam. This is a turned twill or block twill, where one block has the warp yarns mostly on top and the next block has the weft yarns mostly... Continue Reading →
I walk almost everyday to a park near my home. It's such fun to see the water birds. This Yellow-crowned Night-Heron didn't like it when I tried to get close enough for a picture with my phone. They stake out their own little space on the shoreline. He's hoping a fish will swim by. Continuing... Continue Reading →
Today was spent at the Guild House volunteering my time to weave fabric for "Cat Toys". Our weaving guild sells the cat toys at our annual sale to raise money for the guild. In past years the fabric was woven by guild members demonstrating at the Houston Rodeo. The rodeo changed exhibits this year and did not... Continue Reading →
Finally got back to the Baby Mac loom and finished the shadow weave towels. It's time to move on to another weave structure. I choose a 4 harness weave pattern by Bertha Hayes. As you can see, I'm Setting up the loom. 1/2 the warp is dented thru the reed at 30 epi. The warp... Continue Reading →
This project has been a long time in process (see earlier post: Handwoven Shibori on the Loom). I just finished creating the "snake." It is 3 1/2 yards of plain weave fabric with pattern threads in a twill weave. The pattern threads which are pink have been pulled tightly. These threads were woven in after... Continue Reading →
On the loom is a silk 20/2, fancy twill weave scarf. The silk yarn was purchased at the Convergence conference in Albuquerque, New Mexico from "Red Fish Dye Works". Their booth is just eye candy, with all the beautiful colors that they dye themselves. The scarf uses a variegated yarn as well as a solid... Continue Reading →
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