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Work stuff has kept me too busy to do anything requiring brains, but I had some leftover time on my hands, so I decided to inventory my stash. After some hemming and hawing, I decided to put it into an online database at http://creator.zoho.com. I could just as easily have put it into an Excel [...]
The new Handwoven is out! If you haven’t gotten it yet, the article about my dress (a half-pager) is on page 29. Woo hoo! And, in other cool news, the scarf is dyed, wet-finished, and ready to go: I like it! I think the colors are maybe a little too dark (it’s darker in real [...]
With a little more obsessive weaving (and dyeing, and sitting firmly on my hands to give the dyed sample time to “set”), voila, the first set of dyed samples: I’m a little disappointed with the dye job – the photo was the effect I was after, but in real life it looks almost solid orange-red [...]
By working diligently (okay, obsessively) after Mike got up, and a little bit at lunchtime, I got the warp set up and this sample woven: Aside from a few skips where shaft #24 was acting up, it looks GREAT! and I think I will most likely use it for my bathrobe. I still need to [...]
By being my usual cheerfully obsessive self, I got the rayon chenille warp wound and both warps threaded and sleyed yesterday. (Lest you be impressed, there were only 360 ends in this particular sample, as it’s only 12″ wide.) I also finished making my free-standing trapeze, which is basically an oversized sawhorse. I put 5’8″ [...]
