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Thanks to my friend Nancy, who put me on to it, I now have a new-to-me Brother KH-830 knitting machine, purchased from a fellow who repairs knitting machines professionally. It works much better than the antique I was using. Of course, the first thing I did upon getting it home was knit up a sample. [...]
I painted the panel this morning, using an 0.5% solution of fiber-reactive dyes in various colors. Here it is: Here, by way of contrast, is what it looked like before painting: It’s amazing how much white will “wash out” a color, isn’t it? Anyway, I am still not happy with this panel. The top half [...]
I finished weaving the panel yesterday, and will be dyeing it this morning. Here’s a pic: (The colors will be more intense once it is fully painted.) I don’t like the striations in this one. They are now subtle enough and irregular enough that they look accidental, like a bad dye job, rather than something [...]
By weaving obsessively, I am nearly halfway through the panel; I expect to finish weaving today. I have mixed feelings about it. The color gradation is coming out smoothly – too smoothly for my tastes, I had been hoping for more striation. This is the result of (a) moving to a row length that does [...]
I dyed the blank yesterday morning, and had planned to let it batch for 24 hours instead of heating it, to reduce the chance of felting. That lasted until I realized I really didn’t have anything else to work on besides the blank. Since I have virtually no ability to sit still, I sat around, [...]
