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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...

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snatched 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...

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off 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...

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back 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...

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treadling 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...

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funny 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...

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two 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...

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Theo 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...

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the 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...

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another 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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