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Monthly Archives: February 2014
A Quiet Spinning Day at Festival of the Arts
Snow has blanketed our neighbourhood, bringing calm, but making the streets a little slippery. Snow is not all that usual in the Vancouver area, with only 2 or 3 snowfalls a winter, so we really are not used to … Continue reading
Posted in Spinning, Weaving
Tagged Coquitlam Weavers and Spinners Guild, Festival of the Arts, Port Moody, Spinning, Spinning wheel, weavers, yarn
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Uncomplicated
After weaving several projects that involved complicated processes and multiple shuttles, it was a delight to weave something completely uncomplicated. These two scarves practically flowed from the loom. The draft is adapted from Daryl Lancaster’s scarves in the article “Using … Continue reading
Posted in Weaving
Tagged colour, purple, scarves, Silk, tencel, varigated yarns, Weaving, weaving drafts
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Crackle in Silk
I’ve been experimenting with Crackle Weave in preparation for the class I will teach in May. I love how the colours look together on the warping board. I use elastic bands to hold the yarn on the warping board until … Continue reading
A Year of Learning
I’m starting to think that my idea of retirement is very different from that of others. This year is shaping up to be a very intense year of learning and teaching with an almost vertical learning curve and I am … Continue reading
Posted in Weaving
Tagged brick style, Dukagang, learning in retirement, pairs style, polychrome, study group, Summer and Winter weave, Weaving
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