Tag Archives: bookmarks

I’ve decided to do a jacket and two shawls on the next warp, which will be medium brown and dark brown in alternating stripes 100 threads (2.5″) wide, woven with gold, orange, red, black, or beige wefts – haven’t decided yet.  I’ve dyed half the warp a gorgeous warm brown and will tackle the other [...]

I must be coming down sick, because pretty much all I’ve done the last day is sleep.  Eight hours at night, plus four or five hours of naptime during the day.  Since this is what my immune system does to me when it’s fighting off something, it’s probably Mike’s cold that is flattening me.  I [...]

Well, it appears I’m catching Mike’s cold.  I’ve been sleeping 10+ hours/day, which is usually a sign that I’m coming down with something – my body shuts me down for a couple days so my immune system can get cracking.  It’s too bad really – I would have loved a few more unencumbered days to [...]

So, I’ve definitely decided to make a run of bookmarks, to experiment both with network drafting and with color mixing.  For warp I’m going to use the orange silk (haven’t yet decided whether to use light orange or dark orange or both one after another), for weft I’m going to use two strands of cotton [...]