Weaverly

Silly Names

In the heat of designing, I tend to give silly names to new threadings, just to get that part of the job over quickly. This particular warp is named "Triple Mountains," because there are three little peaks in the design line. You don't really see any mountains in the cloth; little dumbbells maybe. So be it.

It's the third warp in my amalgamation studies. To say I'm having fun is a gross understatement. 

 

As usual, click to embiggen.

Twenties Two

In the jargon of weaving, "twenties two" is written as 20/2. Yarnies will recognize it as a specific grist of cotton yarn, and it runs about 8400 yards per pound. I used a lot of it when I was doing jacquard weaving. I'm trying to do some destashing here and have used a goodly amount of 20/2 this week.  

First of all, I made a new warp for my dobby loom. It's lavender cotton at 40 epi.

Here are the first few inches, to do some error-checking. Happy to report: no threading errors. 

I'm also using a bit of 20/2 in my rigid heddle teaching samples. Here it is as warp and weft, four strands of 20/2 held together as one, in a 12-dent rigid heddle. It requires a bit of finesse in the warping, but is very doable.

It's excellent weather for weaving. Look what's been going on outside:

Fortunately, we haven't lost any power.

The Lazy Woman's Photography Studio

The samples from my second amalgamation warp are hemmed, washed, and ironed, and before I put them away to join their sisters, I set up a quick photo shoot on my ironing board. Enjoy.

Yesterday while grocery shopping I saw this astonishing sight. Bright blue orchids. My fellow shoppers suspected they'd been dyed. I don't know about such things, but they did stop me in my tracks (the orchids, not the shoppers). 

Department of books:

I just finished reading At Paradise Gate by Jane Smiley. Enjoyed it. Actually, I've never read anything by Jane Smiley I didn't like. And The Greenlanders is one of my favorite books ever. I've read it twice.