Category: Weaving
New Loom
Well, new to me at least. I have been looking for a Baby Mac for ages, and I finally have one. 🙂 It’s first warp is, of course, shadow weave. This will be a rayon shawl: CP-6485 has a new and happy home. 🙂 Just as I wold expect from Macomber, this lovely machine weaves
New Studio 2025
The cats looking out to the sunroom/ future studio in our new home. We spent last night here for the first time. Our stuff should get here in a couple days and I’m looking forward to making awesome things in this room sooooon. very soon. 🙂Â
The Beauty of Shadow Weave
I love this fabric so much! The way the warp and weft optically blend into so many different colors in this four-color shadow weave pattern is just so visually pleasing. It’s a mix of a muted dark green and a vivid yellow-green in the warp, crossed with a muted maroon, and a bright icy blue
Cat tax
Is there anyone in/near Raleigh, NC with a baby mac I could come visit? I am seriously considering pulling the trigger on ordering one, but would really like to sit at one and make sure the ergonomics will work for me. photo of a recent project from my big mac that has been adopted by
2024: the Year of Shadow Weave
The second shadow weave warp has been wound on: Â Â and woven off:Â Â Â Â Â I am still absolutely in love with this structure. I have so many plans for this year.Â
Shadow weave is calling me
I checked Marian Stubenitsky’s book Max8 out from my Guild’s library in December, and was captivated by the Shadow Weave patterns she has on p. 26-28. I copied her draft into iWeaveIt, noodled around with it a bit, warped up my Big Mac, sleyed a twill sett, and ended up with this: I realized I
New Studio
The studio is coming together. I moved to Raleigh, NC in August, and finally my studio is well set up and I’m weaving. This is a wildly distorted panorama picture, but it shows the view from my sewing table (which is behind me so not shown) towards the windows. It’s a daylight basement in a
Stunt Spinning
Finished four-ply cabled yarn from Alice’s Reflection Farm‘s fleece that I was spinning yesterday. This fleece spins so unbelievably fine, and is still bouncy even in a tightly-plyed worsted-spun yarn. Alice still has a lot of fleeces on hand in a variety of colors and they absolutely should find spinners to adore them.
Runny Yarn
Grrr. Valley Yarns “Charlemont” in the color “Mulberry” ran so badly in the wash that it completely muted out the contrast threads in my latest shawl. *pissed*
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