at home with Lara's wheels, spindles, looms & dye pots
Early last week packed a 2-day hard stop but all is thankfully well, back on track. Weavers know that sometimes even a small project can sit “between shots.” A shot is the pass of weft across the warp. It all started so well at the start of May. I was just fresh off my first […]
Read MoreThe 6 towels that I beamed on my Mighty Wolf loom at the end of October, 2020 are hemmed as of yesterday. At first taking space to breathe felt strange. It was not a choice exactly. Wanting to weave with a loose aim of the holidays meant starting, working around the tough regular school-at-home pace. […]
Read MoreWe’re fresh-off our Canadian Thanksgiving, which started a little early with my impulse to bake a cranberry/ blueberry crisp and finished with our first turkey dinner at home. T-kiddo made a good choice on the supermarket cut tulips… they are still fresh & brightening the table runner that I wove in spring 2014, sari silk […]
Read MoreIn the final days before welcoming T home last summer, I opened my 151 g of Ramie top, and started spinning on my painted East European saxony wheel. This is my first project with Ramie & was love at first spin. Priorities soon made themselves known. The night that I had given a Lecture on […]
Read MoreBest wishes for a happy & safe season to all! Our Peace and Quiet plans got thrown last Friday when N woke-up with a bad rash. It’s shingles, and this quickly became a painful week for him. The treatment is working but his skin continues to be very tender. While making do without a tree […]
Read MoreThis is not typically a fabulous month but the past 4 or so weeks have exceeded all August expectations. We celebrated Emancipation Day, August 1st with family. There were a lot of new nephew cuddles, and good times with his parents. We stayed with wonderful friends. Their windowsill shows all of my travel spinning of […]
Read MoreIn my last post, I told you about the technical slip & fall of my first attempt in weaving for the Art Gallery of Burlington All Guilds Show. The show is on through May 24, 2015. It was a fully-formed piece, and I would like to share how the ideas developed. They are what really […]
Read MoreThe past month took me home for a sad occasion with family. It has meant working harder to get ready for the holidays ahead but I came back deeply grounded. On the flight south, I took out my new Ampersand sock-in-progress… only to find out that my seat-mate was also a knitter! She had holiday […]
Read MoreAll skeins are plied, and wound! It took exactly 3 months for this my biggest spinning project ever. First lashing of Romney wool locks to the combs happened on July 19th; last plying happened yesterday, October 19th. My singles for the plying are coming up from the tin by my wheel. The twist is well […]
Read MoreThere is a footnote to my last post on the Wm MacDonald Saxony spinning wheel. Since posting she continued to impress me through 4 bobbins of BFL/silk top. As she ran, I cleaned and oiled and spoke to the twitter. A wool lock shim came to the front maiden & I had an eye out […]
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