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Reprise
I finally managed to twist the fringes, wet-finish, press, etc. the changing-colors shawl today at lunchtime, so I couldn’t resist posting a new set of photos. I’ve Photoshopped them in an attempt to get the saturation to where the shawl actually is, but it’s just about impossible to capture the sheen of the silk in [...]
More pretty pix
I got up this morning and took some photos of the shawl. I have mixed feelings about it.
Close up, the colors are gorgeous. But when you stand back five feet it looks like a series of stripes, and almost like a plaid in the places where I got the warp wrong and there are visible [...]
Pretty picture
The colors are coming out just as gloriously as I had hoped! The combination of red-to-gold and fuchsia-to-turquoise is producing all the vibrant colors of a sunset: the red-to-gold giving all the shades of sun, and the fuchsia-to-turquoise reflecting the many shades of the sunset sky. There is tremendous color motion, and it is just [...]
Back to weaving
It was a pretty brutal week, between work and various social obligations, and after a couple of days of sleep-deprivation, I finally fell into bed last night and slept for eleven hours straight. But I feel much better this morning.
Then I put together my “to-do” list for the next few weeks of chocolatiering. And I [...]
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