The month snuck up on me - where did June go. I am off on vacation this month - well two weeks of the month - so much of my weaverluness will be limited to watching what you do and playing with yarn. I am planning vivistes to several yarn shops along the way! Weave on all. . . .

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Wed, 07/15/2015 - 04:18

Artistry

Thanks Tina, I needed to go back up to the hospital ER ,after the first surgery,  so that  knocked  out the 2nd surgery until another two weeks. I'm home now feeling much better:) I maybe able to do a little bit of weaving in a week!

Thanks for asking , cathie

Wed, 07/15/2015 - 16:55

tien (not verified)

I looked into that a bit. Unfortunately, construction costs around here are very high, and we'd have to redo the foundation (it's cracked), so the total price tag would be at least $100K (!) I think I'll have to live with what I've got now.

Hopefully it will all fit!

Wed, 07/15/2015 - 17:01

tien (not verified)

I'm glad to hear you're feeling better, Cathie! I've been thinking of you, too.

I got the bill of lading for my TC-2 yesterday. Its estimated arrival in port (at least for now) is August 25. It will probably take another few days to arrive at my door, so my loom-raising party (sort of like a barn-raising party :-) ) is tentatively scheduled for Labor Day weekend. Alas, I'm flying off just a few days later for Schiffer Publishing's annual Author Picnic (Sep 12), so probably won't get to actually weave until mid to late September.

Also, T minus 18 days to my publisher deadline! I've declared the manuscript "done enough" (I'm still missing a few artist-supplied items but only a few) and have started converting it to the publisher's format for submission. Once that's done I'll get going on marketing materials, which also have to be submitted on the 3rd.

 

Thu, 07/16/2015 - 12:45

Erica J

Yeah for everyone!

Steelbreeze, I'm so glad to see you're weaving again. If I'm not mistaken Steelbreeze was my table mate at a recent workshop. I'm sure she has finished that wapr, but I'm still savoring mine, or more exactly being more focused on my weft faced weave studies! There is a great video tutorial on uploading photos here.

Cathie, it is great to hear from you again. Will continue to think of you through the next few weeks! I know you'll be sensible about getting back to weaving, and I'll keep my fingers crossed that you aren't away from your loom too long!

Tien, I got my new loom today, not quite the affair your TC has been, but mine is just a LeClerc Voyageur! It is quite a nifty piece of kit though, it will be making it's maiden voyage to Wales in 2 weeks time to teach some new weavers! She is such a tiny thing, she must be female, but hasn't spoken her name yet, perhaps, because she's not fully dressed, still needs her heddles and first warp. :)

 

Thu, 07/16/2015 - 22:42

Artistry

Thanks for all your well wishes ! Today I actually sewed ( by hand) a luggage tag out of my card weaving for my son's suitcase. Then I needed a nap,lol.

i'll get there:)

Thu, 07/16/2015 - 23:06

Gone

Finally finished the dis-assembly and restoration of the Structo floor loom. Just finished the reed today. All parts de-rusted and all wood lightly refinished. Beautiful wood! Durable construction! They really made a good loom for those few years.

Now to get back on the Weavers delight and run off that warp of rugs.

 

Fri, 07/17/2015 - 10:06

steelbreeze

Found another threading error last night (on the left, just out of shot). A rogue red warp hiding on the underside. Never mind, I can fix it later.

Erica, the purple warp came off a while ago, it's waiting for me to turn it into a scarf and maybe a clutch purse... Smileweaving in progress

Fri, 07/17/2015 - 10:07

steelbreeze

Found another threading error last night (on the left, just out of shot). A rogue red warp hiding on the underside. Never mind, I can fix it later.

Erica, the purple warp came off a while ago, it's waiting for me to turn it into a scarf and maybe a clutch purse... Smileweaving in progress

Fri, 07/17/2015 - 16:37

steelbreeze

Sorry, not sure why the duplicate post appeared!

Fri, 07/17/2015 - 21:47

Cgoldsmith251

just wove four table napkins from my green/blue/purple stash and am finally doing the finish work after three months.  As I am trimming I note a few "skipped" warp threads showing up on the underside of the pieces - maybe 2 on one piece and one on another,  how can that be prevented since I cannot view the underside of the cloth while weaving.  I do check the pattern at every or every other repeat. - but on the "front" or upper face.  Any suggestions should be helpful. 

Sat, 07/18/2015 - 23:46

sandra.eberhar…

I periodically check the underside of my fabric, and I advance the warp often so I am not choking the shed, which causes errors.

Sat, 07/18/2015 - 23:56

sandra.eberhar…

My studio had become a nursery for small black and yellow wasps.  I would'nt normally share my studio with insects, but these are carrying little green worms with them, and I am all for anything that reduces the number of little green worms in the world.  And they don't pay any attention to me.  All they want is a few cardboard pirns, which they fill with green worms and plug up with mud.  I can spare the pirns.  If they don't leave by fall, when i have to close the windows, the pirns will go outside in a sheltered spot.  I installed a bee house on the front of the carriage house, designed especially for these critters, but they prefer pirns.

Sun, 07/19/2015 - 18:08

tien (not verified)

The manuscript is ready for the publisher! And over two weeks early, too. Laughing I've also filled out the accompanying marketing package - description of book (short, medium, long), author bio (short, medium), where to sell it, how I plan to promote it, etc. (Quite a bit of etc.)

Now, off to do my digital painting homework! Once I'm done with that, I'll start working on cleaning up my studio and cleaning out the garage. My TC-2 is being loaded onto the ship on Monday!

Mon, 07/20/2015 - 11:23

Erica J

Yeah Tien! Congratulations! 

I finished my most recent taquete sample, again using Hoskins version of the 3rd C Roman burial pillow. I am very proud of the sample! Now I am beginnig a taquete pillow, I will adapt the motifs to my own tastes.

Mon, 07/20/2015 - 16:20

laurafry

Weaving has been on hold for the past few days as we have been sight seeing and at spinning workshops.   I will never be a good spinner but I understand the construction of yarn better now.  :)

company leaves tomorrow and first priority will be to finish the stalled towel warp on the AVL. :)

cheers

laura

Mon, 07/20/2015 - 23:50

sally orgren

I had an excellet time at the workshop weekend. Still processing all that I experienced for the last three days, and I need to get off the computer so I can hem and wet-finish my samples. I took Scandinavian Weaves with Norma Smayda, and loved it.

One of my guilds, Jockey Hollow Weavers, was one of the 14 guilds who participated in the guild display with this dinner table set up of overshot placemats.

Thinking about you Cathie!

Tue, 07/21/2015 - 12:04

Artistry

Sally, I feel so inspired! I want my dinner table at Christmas to look like that! Thanks for the well wishes, slow and steady wins the race:) next Monday, is the second surgery. Everyone tells me it's easier, so I'm a believer! 

BTW, next Monday is ALSO Laura Fry's Webinar ( weaving today, I think) on Laces, Laura I signed up for it! I won't be there for it of course:( but I'll catch it later ; I'm glad to be able to learn what you know and add it to the mix, for the class I'm teaching next year.

fiberwise, I'm doing a Charlie Harper Design Needlepoint - nice and slow:)

thanks you guys

Tue, 07/21/2015 - 16:44

laurafry

sending best wishes to you Cathie.   I'm a tad nervous because my voice still cracks.  :(.   Hopefully it will behave on the day.  Working at making the butterflies fly in formation.  ;)

cheers

laura

Tue, 07/21/2015 - 20:03

Erica J

5" of taquete woven on the pillow!! Yeah!!!

Good luck, Laura!!! 

Tue, 07/21/2015 - 22:23

sally orgren

We got snowed out two years in a row, so the guild threw in the towel and held the luncheon today. I wore my festive snowman earrings (given to me by co-worker Kathi) for the occassion, and a few others wore holiday ornamentation to celebrate.

 

 

I finished hemming and wet-finishing my samples from my MAFA workshop:

 

 

And, while the sewing machine was out, I finished hemming another set of 4 towels.

 

Wed, 07/22/2015 - 08:42

Erica J

Wow Sally,beautiful work as always! Are those towels posted in your projects?

 

Wed, 07/22/2015 - 09:33

Artistry

Good Work Sally!

Voice cracking? Funny story Laura, when I got my COE ,Eleanor Best invited me to come to speak to her Guild about the program and the work I had done for the second level. So I had about a 100 mile drive to where her Guild met from my house and off I went. I was well rehearsed, well prepared:) I noticed about 1/4 way into the drive I was starting to shake, I thought this was so odd, I didn't feel nervous? I drove some more , by now I was really shaking! I thought to myself " Wow, I'm more concerned about this than I thought!", then I lookEd down at the car heat and it's not on and it's February, ROFL! you got it I'm cold!

thanks for the good thoughts:) i feel better every day:)

Wed, 07/22/2015 - 15:41

MaryMartha

Sally,  I've been thinking about the rosenkransen twill (center) and wondering how it might adapt to echo weave (which was my MAFA workshop), or at least to parallel threading.  Ms. Smayda let me peek at the draft during open studio. I made notes but wasn't bold enough to snap pictures.  Nice to have a visual record.

The range of the Jockey Hollow Guild display was great.  The uncoverd placemat near the center is one of Sally's, from a BGH untitled draft in miniature overshot.

Wed, 07/22/2015 - 16:48

sally orgren

I started to go in and generate the project post, but I am fighting a cold, so bailed and took a nap after work. I'll get there. I appreciate leaving myself breadcrumbs for the future and for checking things when I am traveling.

Wed, 07/22/2015 - 16:53

sally orgren

Norma credits her source:

Ny Vafbok II Gerda Bjorek, 1913, p 32

Woven in 16/2 cotton warp, with pattern weft that contrasts.

The Saunderstown Weaving School has one of the most amazing Scandinavian resource libraries I have visited to date.

Wed, 07/22/2015 - 19:55

Erica J

8" of taquete woven!

3" more of pattern to weave to mm orrow, then the bafk next week before we are off to Wales.

 

Wed, 07/22/2015 - 20:29

tien (not verified)

Wow! Everyone's been so busy, and Sally, your productivity and photos are just amazing!

Cathie, I'm thinking of you every day and am really hoping your second surgery goes smoothly!

I had planned to spend the next few days working on my digital painting homework, but my laptop hard drive started giving me dire warnings about impending failure. So now the computer is in the shop for the next few days and I am trying really hard to stop twitching. ;-)

So instead, I think I'm going to work on cleaning up my studio. It is literally (no exaggeration, honest!) about two feet deep in Stuff, and my worktable is three feet deep! And I'm going to start clearing out the garage to make space for Valkyrie (yes, that's what I decided to name the TC-2) when she arrives.

I'll also probably divest myself of some yarn. I'm up to over 210 lbs in my yarn database and have at least another 15-20 pounds of yarn not yet entered (!). More to the point, it's overflowing its bins, so I really need to go through and cull stuff. Not sure what to do with a lot of it as it is seriously fine yarn, and not many people weave with 15,000 ypp and finer yarn. Hopefully I can find someone to take the extras!

Wed, 07/22/2015 - 21:21

sally orgren

I really like this design. What will the cloth become?

Wales! Are you going to visit the mill in Saint Davids?

Thu, 07/23/2015 - 05:32

Erica J

Good luck on your clear out Tien! 

Thanks Sally. This is my own adaptation of a 3rd C pillow found in Antinoe. I will make this into a pillow for our re-enactments. We are going to Wales for 9 days of the-enactment, but are planning some side trips. I will have to see how far the Mill is from Castel Raglan!

Thu, 07/23/2015 - 11:44

endorph

looking freat Erica - thanks for sharing the progress with us

Thu, 07/23/2015 - 16:11

sally orgren

Melin Tregwynt was the water-driven wool mill we visited in St. Davids, and Castell Henllys was the Iron Age hill fort where I saw my first warp weighted loom with stones. When the demonstrator was weaving on it, the soft thunking of the stones was very soothing - you don't get that from photos!

This might be further west that you are going, in Pembrokshire. We rented a farm house about 12 miles east of Fishguard and rambled across the hillside for a whole week. One of my favorite vacations, ever.

 

Thu, 07/23/2015 - 17:47

laurafry

Cut the blue/green warp off the loom yesterday, serged 18 towels, ready for wet finishing.  Today dh has agreed to beam the next tea towel warp - another 40 yard long warp, this time in white/natural/beige in snails trails and cats paws (twill blocks).  I'm hoping to get the place mat warp sleyed and tied on and start weaving on that this afternoon.  :)

cheers,

Laura

Thu, 07/23/2015 - 19:42

Erica J

Go Laura! I was assigned cats tracks and snaiks trails for my Oct. Workshop. I'm pretty excited! I'm working on finding the right inspiration for colours!

I finished weaving the taquete pattern today and wove all, but 4" of the back, weft faced tabby all one c o lour. So it is as fast as weft faced weaving gets.

Thu, 07/23/2015 - 20:43

ReedGuy

Everyone is lots busy for this being the summer. Dedication. :)

 

I just recieved the Hella Skowronski monograph on Doup Leno yesterday. Lots of time to study up on it for this coming winter.

 

Healing vibes sent out to Cathie, as you get through your operations and heal up. :)

Thu, 07/23/2015 - 21:29

laurafry

Yes, Cathie, hope all is going well for you.

Doug beamed the warp for me but I modified it to just 30 yards because I was afraid I'd run out of the beige.  What that means, of course, is that I will have four tiny left over tubes of the beige, no doubt!

Trying to decide if I weave on the place mat warp or thread the AVL.  Decisions, decisions...

cheers,

Laura

Fri, 07/24/2015 - 07:59

Artistry

WOW, take a nap, and look at all you' guys have done!

thanks again for all your positive vibes coming my way for the second brain surgery . I'm all set! See the surgeon today who I'm sure will give the go ahead. All is good:)

Sat, 07/25/2015 - 00:55

laurafry

This morning...warp is now threaded entirely but I'm about to head off to go press the buckets of textiles ready for their hard press (dh has a friend coming over to watch football - good time to get out of Dodge!)  :^)

Hope to start weaving tomorrow afternoon - have stuff to do in the morning.

cheers,

Laura

Tue, 07/28/2015 - 04:37

laurafry

Not sure why I'm being such a slug, but I've barely touched the looms for the past while.  July is almost over...I really need to get myself in gear!  Both looms have warps on them so the plan for tomorrow is to get cracking!

cheers

laura

Tue, 07/28/2015 - 11:11

Erica J

The back, which I'm seriously considering making the front! ;)

 

Tue, 07/28/2015 - 18:06

Artistry

Erica, it's beautiful !

well, it's over! Went swimmingly! Back home, home sweet ,home.

thank you go all, ever so much. Cathie

 

Tue, 07/28/2015 - 18:28

Erica J

Yeah!!!! I am so happy to hear you are home Cathie!!!!!! 

thank you for your constant encouragement as well!!!

Tue, 07/28/2015 - 18:48

laurafry

Managed to get myself to the loom and weave another towel.  Enough so that I could remove the apron and insert the storage roller at the back of the loom.

Tue, 07/28/2015 - 18:49

sarafigal

I really like Ada, both as a name and for its tribute. But if you want to go Norse, how about "Norni?" The Norns are (put simply) the three female devine beings who weave fate in Norse mythology.

Tue, 07/28/2015 - 18:49

sarafigal

I really like Ada, both as a name and for its tribute. But if you want to go Norse, how about "Norni?" The Norns are (put simply) the three female devine beings who weave fate in Norse mythology.

Tue, 07/28/2015 - 20:40

Erica J

Sarafigal,

Thank you for this information, I did not know that, very cool!

Wed, 07/29/2015 - 04:56

fiberassociations

Teaching kids, spinning demos, making a basket with my handspun for a guild exhibit, sorting many pounds of yarn so I can lift the boxes without killing myself. It has been a full 2 months.  

Tonight I finally threw on a hand painted cotton bamboo warp that I did in a workshop 2 years ago.  Sampled a bit, wound on bobbins, and tomorrow I will be weaving myown work for the first time since late May.  A wonderful feeling. 

Wed, 07/29/2015 - 13:00

endorph

send you good thoughts and prayers Cathie -

Wed, 07/29/2015 - 15:59

tien (not verified)

So glad to hear that, Cathie!!

I'm in the process of cleaning out my studio. How on earth did I wind up with SO MUCH YARN?!? My database says I have 210 lbs and it's not even including the 20+ pounds sitting on the worktable. I'm going to have to do some culling for sure. Anyone interested in fine to superfine yarns? I'll probably have at least some to give away.

I'm also finishing up my digital painting class- final project due tomorrow. I was going to draw a seascape scene, but wound up with a cavernous dragon's lair. How weird is that?

Oh, and I've been invited to teach in RUSSIA!! Next October. I've been talking it over with the fellow organizing the conference, and we're going to do a trade: I'll come out and teach for five days (probably creative process stuff from my book), and they'll provide a translator and (basically) a private textile tour for four days in Moscow afterwards. It promises to be a real weaving adventure!! Totally excited, I hope it all works out.

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