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Trying Recycled Jeans Yarn
This is a new to me yarn from Venne Cotton called Eco Jeans. It is a 12/2 cotton, made from recycled blue jeans and jeans clothing, spun together with used PET bottles. My research shows that PET plastic is the … Continue reading
Christmas Towels
This year I have been weaving in turned twill. I love the look that is coming to life here, and the ability to expose colour changes while still weaving with one weft. So, I decided to make classic Christmas towels … Continue reading
Colour Vibrations with Zanshi
My last weaving was full of colour, with lots of colour changes and ends to weave in. I needed a palate changer, a little bit of simple weaving that I didn’t really need to think about. I looked at the … Continue reading
Canvas Weave Napkins
Following along with the Jane Stafford Online Guild, I have worked through Episode 5.2 Canvas Weave. I rearranged the draft to weave napkins instead of a sampler. Canvas weave is a fun and easy one shuttle weave. Jane gave us … Continue reading
Weaving with a Song
More fun with turned twill, this time with a song. I have been thinking about how to turn music into weaving for a while now, and so I took the plunge. I started with a simple song, in this case … Continue reading
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Turned Twill Towels
These towels are modelled after those shown in Jane Stafford Online Guild, Season 5, Episode 1, turned twill. I changed the colour order, making cherry the largest colour. Then I have stripes of yellow, grey, apricot separated by black to … Continue reading
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Tagged colour, cotton, Handweaving, JST on-line guild, turned twill
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Penelope Scarves, Coded in Cotton
This in the first weaving that evolved out of reading the story of Penelope, a woman from a long time ago, who was waiting for her husband to return, and passed the time while waiting, weaving during the day and … Continue reading
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Tagged Coded weaving, hand woven, naturally coloured cotton, Penelope
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2020 in Review, and Welcome 2021
2020 was a year of isolation and introspection. I spent much more time in and around home, and much less time out in the world. At first, the isolation was hard, but as time went on our guilds figured out … Continue reading
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Tagged 2020, 2021, cotton, handwoven, mug rugs, Scarf, Silk, tea towels, Wool
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Basket Weaves in Blue
These tea towels came off the loom just in time for Christmas Gift Giving. The towels are a combination of twill and basket weave inspired by JST Online Guild Episode 4.7. I pulled out all my partial spools of blue … Continue reading
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