shades of white
I tried out my two kinds of wool alongside the silk I’ve been using. In real life there is a just-perceptible visual difference between them — the Blue-Faced Leicester is slightly “woollier” and the...
View Articlesnatched moments
It’s the last week of teaching! After this, only the marking remains, along with responding to whatever cries of help are heard when the students realise they have got to sit an exam… Given that I am...
View Articleoff the loom and back on again
I cut the Theo Moorman samplers off the loom last night and they are SO EXCITING. I haven’t washed them yet, but just look at these woolly squares popping out from the surface of the cloth. I hope they...
View Articleback at (and of) the loom
I was so glad to get home on Monday, and even more glad that I don’t have to go away again for several weeks. There has been too much coming and going, not to mention fluing, so a couple of months of...
View Articletreadling on
Thanks to all of you who said complimentary things about the pink and gold shawl after my last post. Fingers crossed it will turn out well! I have been making slow but regular progress, with a bit of...
View Articlefunny old day
Another fabulous sunny day — the cats continue to lie in their contented stupor, and I am half-inclined to join them — I love how everything and everyone slows down for the sun. Even the park was...
View Articletwo in one out
That’s two things into the finishing pile and one out of it… I am storing up a whole heap of work for myself, but haven’t yet managed to scare myself into doing it. I finished this warp… …and have...
View ArticleTheo Moorman shawl
I’m sure you’ve quite forgotten by now that I was ever weaving this, but I have at last done all the fiddly bits of finishing and here she is. In the end I re-twisted some but not all of the fringe...
View Articlethe question of pins
It seemed like a good idea to mount my Theo Moorman samplers in box frames, so as to let them be as three-dimensional as they wanted. I googled some key words to see whether I could find some online...
View Articleanother excursion with Moorman
I am struggling to get to my blog at the moment, drowning as I am in a wave of to-do lists and deadlines. Nonetheless, weaving continues and as promised (threatened?) I am mixing my purples and my...
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