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I finished twisting the fringe today and finished it as I did the sample – threw it in the washing machine on “warm”, which I know sounds abusive but is the recommended treatment for this particular cashmere. I then tossed it in the dryer for about 10 minutes, pulled it out while still damp, and [...]
I realize I should be bonding with this particular piece at the moment, but in all truthfulness I don’t really like it. I somehow managed to botch winding the warp! I don’t know how, as I was being very careful (I thought) to look at all the labels on the cones, but there is one [...]
Bonnie and I spent 2 hours going through network drafting yesterday, and I’ve been playing with it since well before dawn. (Admittedly, dawn is kinda late these days.) It turns out that network drafting is infinitely easier using Fiberworks PCW, a different weaving program – actually there are a lot of things you simply can’t [...]
I spent most of yesterday suffering weaver’s block – the condition where you aren’t quite sure what to do, so you wind up doing nothing. Well, not quite nothing – I did resolve most of my questions – but basically sit around and let things ferment. I’m not sure what exactly I did for most [...]
