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Finishing touches

I’m currently working on the most tedious job of all: finishing touches.  In particular, I’m preparing the handling swatches for my yardage gallery entries, by binding the raw edges with silk charmeuse.  It’s a laborious process, taking about two hours per swatch, and makes me impatient because mentally I’ve moved on from both projects.  In [...]

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DONE!!

Eight months and twenty-one days after beginning, I have finished weaving off the Infinite Warp – thirty-seven yards of 60/2 silk.  I feel like the little girl in the Shel Silverstein poem: Melinda Mae Have you heard of tiny Melinda Mae, Who ate a monstrous whale? She thought she could, She said she would, So [...]

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Sparkling samples

I’ve decided to make the rest of the warp samples for the Helen Pope Special Sample Service at CNCH.  This is a sale of samples to benefit the Conference of Northern California Handweavers; it simultaneously raises funds for CNCH and acts as a kind of sample exchange.  Members can buy samples for a nominal sum [...]

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Eight yards, eleven inches

That’s how long this baby is: It was a close race, but I ran out of weft before running out of either warp or time.  I’m estimating I have maybe eighteen inches of weavable warp left – not enough to do anything with, really, so I may just cut it off. Or I may not. [...]

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Networked rosepath, woven

Here’s a photo of the networked-rosepath draft I posted this morning, now on the loom/woven up: I really like this, and have already woven the first 16″.  At this rate, the three-yard minimum should be a breeze. I’ve also decided to leave it as it stands – it’s beautiful, and also quite complex in itself. [...]

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