Happy May! Yet another busy and productive month has come and gone and it is time for a new thread. Everyone has had such a busy and varied spring. Looking forward to what will happen this month. Be creative, be supportive and weave on! Tina

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Sun, 05/26/2013 - 21:52

sally orgren

I am winding warps for others today. I fnished setting up a RH as a loaner, and the new weaver selected excellent colors for her first warp.

Sun, 05/26/2013 - 20:12

Artistry

Lovely table cloth ReedGuy! Sally, you are so kind to set up the warps of others!
Tue, 05/28/2013 - 13:48

Erica

Well I've been doing a lot of work on the website lately, though it doesn't show yet. This has been my daily weaverliness for most of this month!

Yesterday, I spent time in the studio it is in much better shape and I'll be able/willing to post photos soon (hopefully before our summer travels).

ReedGuy this cloth is goreous, how many shafts is required?

Sally, I hope you will post photos, especially of the looms. I'm looking forward to helping a friend in Lake Ozark, MO get a barn loom up and running this summer. Any tips/tricks/known differences you have to share will be much appreciated!

Ta,

Erica

Tue, 05/28/2013 - 14:16

Artistry

Erica, thank you for all the work you do on the website ! I'm so glad your studio is up and running! Can't wait to see the photos! Lake Ozark, very pretty, but can't help you with the barn loom! Question: do you think a handwoven lace scarf is too feminine for a fancy man's scarf made out of silk? Thinking of my Dad. Or stay with the plaited or fancy twills, whatever I can come up with design wise, but in twill? Thoughts?
Tue, 05/28/2013 - 21:28

loomyladi (not verified)

I lament that on the last day of vacation I accidentally deleted 276 photos off my tablet and they are non-retrievable.  They were saved internally and as such as not accessable (according to a variety of technicians and Samsung!)  How sad.....

Spent the weekend in a variety of "weaverly" ways.  Pivatol (?) moment for me was shortly before packing up and heading home my friend sets large box in front of me, full of handwovens and I tear up instantly and I utter the first thing that comes to mind....beautiful!  Followed by Bruce's disclosure that it was nice to finally find someone who appreciated them.  I happily headed home with a car full of handwovens and paperwork to organize and catalog.  Yes, the work on this fiber estate continues. 

There was a monks belt bag in the box, made of acrylic.  I examined the work and Bruce told me his mother carried that bag everywhere.  By the wear on the handle and in the lining, I can believe it.  We ended up looking for photographs of a trip to Scandinavia in 1972 and in the process found an image from 1964 of the Monk's belt bag.  I was out of time and Bruce is on a mission to locate the project sheet for this bag, I suspect it exists!  There is a 3 ring binder full of meticulous indexing, by year, of the more than 1,000 slides in her collection.  Some are of routine, around the house things like Bruce and his dogs, but most are of her travels, weaving, craft fairs, etc.  I was, and still am, overwhelmed that the organizing and interpretation of this woman's story has been entrusted to me.  

Jane

Tue, 05/28/2013 - 23:30

Monica Bellas (not verified)

Between grading finals and posting grades, I managed to finish a scarf for a student and a set of towels for a friend.  We've adopted two puppies, who come home on Thursday, and next Tuesday I'm off to Scotland, so the loom will have to remain nekked until I get home.  I'm already itching to get the next warp going.

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