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I’ve been feeling quite impatient recently, on several fronts: The warp is taking longer than I expected to put on. I finished winding the thirty-one MILES of thread yesterday, and put it laboriously onto lease sticks and started threading this morning. It’s taking me 12-13 minutes per inch, which comes out to about 5 inches/hour, [...]
I made fourteen fruitcakes today – nine large and five small. Lots of fun! I used six kinds of candied citrus peels – bergamot, Seville orange, yuzu, citron, Meyer lemon, and Rangpur lime – plus the candied sweet cherries and candied sour cherries that I’d put up earlier in the year. I also discovered, poking [...]
I went to see Sharon this afternoon, four muslins in hand. Three of them were reasonably successful, but we looked at the coat and concluded that it was simply too large. The coat pattern drafting instructions were created for coats in colder climates, where a coat would be worn over a jacket or a sweater [...]
While I have not been weaving, I have been busy the last few days with pattern drafting! I discovered a few days ago that I had been drafting off the wrong sloper, so I redrafted the torso foundation and jacket foundation, and added a coat foundation to the mix! (Yes, I am still thinking about [...]
I’m now contemplating potential wefts. My calculations tell me that if I want 6-8 yards for each garment, I’ll need 300-400 grams of weft for each. Running a search through my yarn database (at http://creator.zoho.com) revealed that I have four weft options: cotton, silk, merino wool, and linen. (The warp will be 60/2 silk.) So [...]
