Category: Weaving
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For Mother’s Day I wove two huge scarves (pics of the second one to come later) and took mom and dad up to Gryphon Highland Cattle Farm for the day to meet Kim and spend some time with her critter collection. Here’s mom showing off her scarf :) Here she is with Bourbon, Kim’s 5…
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Rayna has been hedging about getting a loom. She’s on the fence, and ready to tip over to the dark side. To give that last little push I took my loom to her place, and showed off by making an entire scarf in a few hours. If enabling were an olympic sport, I could enable…
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I don’t do anything in half measures, so when I decided to try warping the loom all by myself, I chose to use my 12 dent heddle and a lace weight yarn, for a 17” wide scarf. 260 threads later I realized what a commitment warping up a 12 dent heddle could be… and I…
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Frolic was on Saturday, and of the many things I succumbed to that day my favourite acquisition was a pair of new heddles. I bought a 10 and 12 dpi to go with my 7.5 dpi. Tito has named them ‘Not bad’, ‘Crazy Talk’ and ‘Drinking Problem’. I decided to test drive ‘Crazy Talk’ by…
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For my latest loom experiment I wanted to try making something for the home, instead of another scarf. This is not even a little bit because I’m bored of scarves, but because all the delicious yarn I want to use is sock or lace weight and I’m waiting on my 10 and 12 dent heddles…
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This is officially the first thing off the loom that I really enjoy wearing. Warp: Alternating strands of Indigodragonfly MCS worsted, ‘Unemployed in Greenland’ with strands of Indigodragonfly merino sock, ‘Is The Money Ok? Did They Hurt The Money? Weft: My own ombré dyed skein, sock weight, merino, 437 yards. The result is light and…
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I have finally started a project with one of my Ombré dyed yarns. Here’s the one I’ve chosen: Which, before I wound it up, looked like this: For the full tutorial on how I dye these skeins, click here! This time I am warping with alternating strands of Indigodragonfly MCS worsted, in a colour called…
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Against all the advice I’d ever read, or been given, or even inferred through common sense, I decided to warp the loom on Friday night with what amounted to lace weight, single ply, handspun. This way lies madness. Tito only made it about 15 minutes before declaring a moratorium on Noro Taiyo lace weight. The…
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I decided to give plaid a try on my loom, and discovered that weaving is a great way to stash-bust like a boss. Both these scarves are TFA scraps left over from other projects, in a mix of both aran and dk weight. The red scarf: Sunset, Grape, Jewel, Charcoal, Natural The blue scarf: Charcoal,…
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This weekend, despite all the social stuff we had planned, I managed to get an entire Zauber Ball through the loom. I’m so hooked. I’m totally in love. I’m obsessed, and we’re warping up a plan for a plaid scarf now! I spent a ton of time on google last night and demystified things like…
The Blue Brick 