20 Jun 2011

Dyeing Wool

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I have been dyeing some combed top for the shop.  This combed top is so soft and squishy!  I had to keep some for myself too!!  Here (above photo)  is a sneak peek of what will be listed soon.  I have a few more colorways to photograph and list in the shop.  The blends are merino/milk, merino/banana, and merino/silk top.  There is also some good old merino top too.  Keep an eye on the shop over the next week or so for updates!

17 Jun 2011

Visitors

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We had some unique visitors the other day.  Our neighbor has cows.  They have a bull and pasture breed some of the locals’ cows.  A few of the heifers, which were there for breeding, found an escape route through the fence.  They crossed the road and came all the way up the driveway before realizing they were lost.  They didn’t stay too long.  I guess they found out the grass really isn’t greener on the other side…

12 Jun 2011

Weaving Delays

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Progress!!

Look at all the progress I have made on my waffle weave dish towels.  Yep, if you look very closely, you will see I have exactly one pick of purple cotton above the yellow header.  Ok, so it may not look like much progress, but after having a huge sleying error, resleying, and then finding out I needed to add two more threads for a floating selvedge, it really is progress!  Or should I say, it will be progressing now!

After I resleyed the reed, I saw that I had only left one thread on each side for the floating selvedge.  I had to add another thread to each side.  I wrapped the thread around an intarsia knitting bobbin and weighted it with hemostats.

Weighting the Floating Selvedge
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