Wound warp into balls & got blue hands. Cut out silk/rayon velvet devore overblouse. Do you think I'll get it done by ABQ? I need an apprentice
I'm working on my wet finishing mountain mostly.
For more info on these towels, story on my blog http://laurasloom.blogspot.com
Cheers,
Laura
I have a visitor this weekend who has never woven before. I tied a 1 yard warp to the existing project on my floor loom, so she could weave a decent hunk of fabric without disturbing my current sequence of projects.
Because the warp is finer threads, (sett at 30 epi, 30 ppi) I was expecting it to take her all weekend to weave a small sample. She's already woven 10" and no mistakes—a natural! I have a second table loom set up just in case she exceeds all expectations and needs a new loom to work on after tomorrow. Wow.
OOh! nice going, pictures please.
Claudia, brevity due to injury see www.weavolution.com/node/9931
Good work. Tell of if she bit...
She swallowed the WHALE!
Here's the finished project-a full yard. She even hemstitched the end to match what I had started, and she had never hem-stitched before! (I couldn't tell the difference.)
Keep in mind this required 38 picks per pattern repeat to weave 3/4", and the treadling wasn't intuitive. Check it out:
1,2,3,4,5,6,7, [1,8,(9+14),14] x 3, 1,4,10,2,11,8,12, [1,6,(13+14),13] x 3.
She wasn't weaving 24/7. We managed to do some traveling around, a 4-mile hike Saturday morning, a 2-mile canoe paddle Saturday afternoon, some meals out and about, homemade cookies, and odds and ends. She's going into biomedical engineering , so I hope the weaving knowledge may help her in the future. She's going to make a great scientist, as she is a logical and creative thinker.
Sally what is her name. The piece looks great. And yes I am thinking she will make a great scientist also.
Michael
Bravo!
What an accomplishment for a newbie!
Have a good day!
My mother in law has a bird feeder on her patio and it recently started attracting this colorful guy. I think it's called American Goldfinch. The bird is a little bigger than a sparrow. My niece Maggie parked herself in a chair and waited to take pictures of this bird. She had this picture as wallpaper on her computer and I asked her to send me a copy. My MIL lives in Gold River Calif, just outside Sacramento, Calif.
Have a good day!
Newbie weaver is named Layla, and she is doing an internship in NJ this summer, but will return to MIT in Boston this fall for her senior year.
Layla looks like a natural. Scientists and mathematicians can make excellent weavers. The ability to see progressions, pattern, symmetry variations, to analyze and remember are all helpful. Would you pass this website for Weavers Guild of Boston along to her? We have many classes and lectures, a large weaving sale to visit, and are not far outside of Boston. The guild is delighted to welcome visitors and new members, and to help new weavers:
http://www.weaversguildofboston.org/
Laurie Autio
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I love goldfinches. They like to eat the seeds from the coreopsis and coneflower I have in my front flower garden. They have goldfinch feeders where the birds hang upside down while getting the thistle seed out of the holes. It's entertaining to watch.
Sally, I was going to give you the Boston Guilds address but Laurie beat me to it. Tell Layla that the Boston Guild is one of the oldest weaving guilds in the country. A senior at MIT, she is doing well. Tell Layla to stay in touch with the Weavolution crew.
In my corner of the world I am going to plant pumpkins today. We sell, give away and use them. Right now I am covered up with yellow squash. Here is a picture of the last pumpkin harvest Cheryl and son Kerry moving some of the crop.
Michael
and who is the cat? He's lovely
His name is Shadow and he is my son's demon as he calls him. He showed up shortly after my son came home from major surgery. His one peculiarity is rather long fangs and unfortunately, he like to take nips-not really a bite but still. He definitely has a lot of personality!!! Devil would have been a better name for him. Here is another picture of Shadow. Since you like cats here is a picture of Cashmere. Yes, her eyes are that blue and she is as soft as her name and the love of her momma life.
The terror of my life is Puschka, a little cat who was dumped in a bag of clothes at the local charity shop. I took her home because otherwise she would have been put down, and she made herself at home:
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As you can see she is a weaver's cat!
ok, now that we are on the cat roll, here's Harley, who cannot be trained to be a studio cat as he thinks all those wiggling hanging threads are JUST for him to play with...here he is hopeful that he can catch a hummingbird whom you can see hovering to the right of the feeder....
Figured I would continue the pumpkin theme, but morph the cats into dogs who are definitely under-represented! This is a picture of Mysty (short for Mystic Biscuit, on left) and Scotia, our two goldens, taken last Halloween in central Massachusetts. We lost Mysty to cancer on May 30. She was 11, a very sweet girl who is greatly missed . Scotia likes to sleep on my feet while I am at the computer and they both liked to hang out next to the looms whenever I was weaving or working in the studio.
Laurie Autio
A cat I visited in Iowa. (As a dog-oriented-person, I didn't know they DO these kinds of things!)
Apparently, a loom is just one gigantic, multi-level cat hammock. (And as a cat, I would be freaked out by the beater coming toward me when reclining on the lower fabric take-up, let alone popping my head up through the warp to see what's going on!)
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Here is my Sweetheart:
And here is the new hubby (Mike) with both Sweetheart and The Fuzz:
The Fuzz doesn't groom himself very well anymore (he's nearly 19) so we have to brush him regularly. A lot of fuzz comes out...I'm always tempted to spin and weave it, but it always turns into felt before I get around to it!
I have a labrador retriever called Albert. He loves weaving and he even tried to lie down close to the loom, but gave it up. He is an old and clever dog who prefers the bed.
I have woven a rug for his favourite place between entrance halI and kitchen.
Okay, if it's pet bragging, I'm in! Here are my three...
Angel:
Cheeky:
and Radar:
Sally - tasty - that would make a lovely thread wrap
I agree, the colors are inspiring, and I couldn't believe these berries are growing wild in our front yard. They were GLOWING! (This was taken just before sunset, NO flash!)
(...and yes, they were tasty!)
Sally, I could not resist, I "grabbed" your photo and brought it into stitchpainter and reset it to a gridded picture...turned off the grid so it would not be too dark and here ya go! Deb
Monday, July 12th, Charlotte, NC airport.
Serenaded by live piano music, stuffed with genuine North Carolina pulled-pork BBQ, and enjoying a rocking chair. How cool is that? (Did I mention free wireless, too?)
Tuesday, July 13th, Knoxville, TN airport
(For a few more airport locations, check the projects tab, "abandoned inkle."
Don't be surprised if the next photo posted is me getting arrested by TSA agents for my strange behavior of taking photos of my inkle at airports!
Next up, Houston, TX and Albuquerque, NM —
What a great picture. My husband and I had a good laugh when we saw it. Laurie
Hi , as I have promessed I have made photos of the parade(cortege?) that find place in our village every year.
I put one here ,you can find more on my blog.Nothing fibre related but i wanted to share the fun we had.
jskunstweven.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!9F13A829247F7571!257.entry
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I didn't get a shot of all the places in ABQ the inklette visited, but here's the outbound trip through Houston. (I never knew #41 was a weaving fan!)
