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Post #3237: On and off the Loom

Posted on May 11, 2021 by

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As might be evident from the photos on here lately, my love of weaving has been rekindled in the last few weeks. At the outset of the pandemic, I sold my large loom because it wasn’t working for me on a number of levels.… Continue Reading “Post #3237: On and off the Loom”

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Matching Market Bags

Posted on January 23, 2011 by

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As an early birthday present, Brian gave me six yards of beautiful, crazy fabric last week – which I wasn’t expecting at all (he gave it to me to prove a point in an argument about how “yes he would so buy me fabric”)…..… Continue Reading “Matching Market Bags”

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3rd Quilt of 2011 – The Tree

Posted on January 16, 2011 by

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The tree quilt – quilted and bound. There are lots of mistakes in this quilt, but it’s still going to someone as a gift. No one can really criticize a gift can they? Now to start on new things…..

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A new year for new projects!

Posted on January 1, 2011 by

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I really am going to get back to garden postings one of these days, but with the ground so frozen outside, it’s a little difficult to get excited about growing things. One project I’m aiming to get down before I go back to work… Continue Reading “A new year for new projects!”

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Buckets of fabric.

Posted on December 10, 2010 by

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A quick show-off post. Took a three-hour class last night at Spool of Thread (that yummy little sewing shop at the intersection of Kingsway and Fraser) and came away with two sizes of fabric bucket. Once you get the idea, these are pretty easy… Continue Reading “Buckets of fabric.”

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It's party weekend @birdsonggabriola ! Showing off some recent dyes in party colours to celebrate: marigold, lac, brazilwood and cochineal. #summerofmaking2021 #hotgirlsummer #naturaldyeing #textilestudio
Introducing #studiotour Thursdays! Over the next few weeks I will show off the corners of my studio on #gabriolaisland as a way of sharing space with you virtually. I love to see where people live and work so let me know if you've posted a tour video of your space somewhere! #summerofmaking2021 #weaversofinstagram #makersgonnamake #handmadelife
Planning for #knitting some of my newly dyed yarn into a cowl. Basic design in greens, grey and purple. #summerofmaking2021
Design gamp on the loom! A gamp in weaving is a kind of sampler where we thread blocks with different colour or pattern threadings. This allows us to explire different colour and pattern variations in a single warp. In this case, the gamp is created through colour order, and woven entirely in plain weave. This is a @janestaffordtextiles weaving school project. #summerofmaking2021 #weavingsamples #weaversofinstagram #textilestudio
Got my warp all tuned up, my bobbins wound, and I'm ready to weave! #weaversofinstagram #weavingsamples #summerofmaking2021
A few more rows and this cowl will be finished #copenhagencallingcowl by @lilalu72. My 2nd time #knitting this pattern. #summerofmaking2021
No textile studio post today. Instead for my #summerofmaking2021 I'm showing you the show that we made at Birdsong tonight. We have been hosting a concert series this summer that will continue through until the end of August. Tonight we are graced by the presence of @tinajonesmusic - our neighbour and friend. So lucky to share my life with the creative people who surround us. 🙏 #gabriolaisland #houseconcert
The search for red continues.... so hard to tell what colours will look like when dry. I'm betting this madder is a bit orange but will try overdyeing with a small amount of cochineal later this weekend if that is so... #summerofmaking2021 #naturaldyeing #textilestudio
Brazilwood again with different water pH. I dyed this before I went on holiday. Still not getting the reds I want... pinks and oranges abound though. I've been meditating on what exactly I think about when I say red and trying to figure out how to get that colour I see in my mind .... I arrived home this evening so I'll be back in the studio with more dyeing and weaving in the next few days. #summerofmaking2021 #textilestudio #naturaldyeing
Simple vacation #knitting: one of my favorite kitchen items is hot pads knitted in wool (I double worsted weight for the right thickness). I use my sets daily, and they go in the housewarming packages I make for friends. Wool is antibacterial, antimicrobial, and it doesn't catch fire easily. Perfect for kitchen use! #handmadelife #textilestudio #summerofmaking2021
I brought a bunch of small balls of yarn along on my #cortesisland vacation so I could wind them for yarn dyeing. Here is the niddy-noddy with a skein, and the view from our suite. #summerofmaking2021 #textilestudio #naturaldyeing #makersgonnamake
Weaving terminology lesson for the non-weavers interested in the process! Before I left on holiday I threaded all the heddles on my loom and started to sley the reed. The first picture shows the heddles (first picture, white cord which has an eye in the middle) with cotton thread passed through. Each warp thread is passed through a heddle as part of what determines the fabric pattern. Each warp thread is also passed through a reed (second picture) sometimes more than one thread per dent (slot). The reed is one of the factors that sets the density of the fabric. Reeds come in different dents per inch, 10 dents per inch means there are 10 slots per inch. If I sett my fabric at 20, that means 2 threads per slot. My current project is 18 ends per inch, which I am sleying into a 12 dent reed. To get 18 epi I sley 2 threads in a dent and then 1 thread in the next dent. And repeat! #summerofmaking2021 #textilestudio #weaversofinstagram #weaverfever #handweaving

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