Follow me as I weave along the way
Every autumn I weave a set of towels in colors of changing trees. There's not much inspiration here, but my eye can take me back to the years spent in Minnesota. The towels are a twelve shaft shadow weave, of 22/2 cottolin sett at 20 ends per inch. I used any where from 3 to... Continue Reading →
Hurricane Harvey and it's aftermath have caused a slow down or halt to any weaving the past 2 weeks. I'm lucky our house was not flooded. We were in a mandatory evacuation zone. After attempting to get out of town but finding roads blocked by rising waters. (A very scary situation) the night was spent in... Continue Reading →
In March of this year I decided to buy a Tempo Treadle from Lofty Fiber to create error free weaving on my Baby Macomber loom. So what is Tempo Treadle ? It involves adding magnets to your treadles, (attached with velcro), that are detected during weaving by a sensor array strip placed below the treadles. The array... Continue Reading →
How time flies. A weaving state conference, an out of state wedding attended, and recovering from a virus, all in the last 3 weeks. The Houston weaving guild hosted, the Contemporary Handweavers of Texas Biennial conference 2017, in Sugarland, Texas. I was an attendee and volunteer, helping with the fashion show. As one of the... Continue Reading →
After a trip to Aruba I finished setting up the Spring loom to begin weaving. It required learning new skills to get this far. Yes, I've been weaving for over 30 years but there are always new things one can learn about ways to use equipment. Back to front, Front to back, how do you put... Continue Reading →
This is a new to me 8 harness Spring loom. I had been pondering for a year getting a new loom that would treadle easier than my current Kessenich 8 harness jack loom. But if I was going to get a new loom I wanted to have more harnesses and greater design capability. At Convergence... Continue Reading →
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