new Loom
Posted in Uncategorized on Jul 30th, 2004
This is what I have in mind for the diamond loom!
Monthly Archive for July, 2004
A different sort of loom.
Posted in Uncategorized on Jul 29th, 2004
One of our best customers and a really fine weaver wanted a diamond shaped loom. Randy made a proto-type last night and I wove these on it today to be sure it ws going to do the job for her. So now I have a big yarn doily! She has ambitious plans for hers, but [...]
I am working!
Posted in Uncategorized on Jul 28th, 2004
I haven’t been entirely idle since the kids left. Here is my bulky yarn for the next Spin-Off skeins. I just love Kool-Aid orange! I may have to spin some fine and knit a top. I’ll look like a CalTrans flagman! lol Been cleaning and printing books and even did a bit of loom designing. [...]
Good bye!
Posted in Uncategorized on Jul 23rd, 2004
Here they are lined up on Grandmother’s porch to say Goodbye! Oh no! Stephanie called last eve to say they had arrived safely and I talked to Karen this morning. Said the flight went well and they even arrived early. But, boy, is it quiet around here today! This blog is going to be a [...]
Boys In Fiber
Posted in Uncategorized on Jul 20th, 2004
Here they all are with their works in fiber. Shane is holding his handspun llama yarn rake-knitted pillow. He did the carding and helped spin and then knitted it on the knitting rake all by himself. Chris was our main weaver man. He wove the squares and made the bear and he wove from acrylic [...]
Karen’s book bag!
Posted in Uncategorized on Jul 20th, 2004
She got it finished. She used three 14″ squares, woven every-other nail with her very bulky first time-spinning handspun yarn. She and Stephanie spun the yarn and Kool-aid dyed it. Karen wove the squares and I crocheted the strap for her. She says she wants to use it for carrying fat file folders around the [...]
warping square
Posted in Uncategorized on Jul 20th, 2004
Here’s a couple of “mug rugs” I made with kitchen cotton, warping it square and then weaving cut lengths to make the hounds-tooth pattern. You can see the crochet cotton that I chained around the edge. You have to hold the thead under the loom so it’s a little awkward at first but once you [...]
Taking it easy
Posted in Uncategorized on Jul 20th, 2004
We spent the weekend camping in the mountains! lol But it was further up in the mountains and even Jack found it relaxing! Since he didn’t have to roast his dinner on a willow stick he didn’t even bother to get up for it! :rolleyes:
A new weaver at work again!
Posted in Uncategorized on Jul 15th, 2004
Yesterday Karen Kool-aid dyed the yarn she and Stephanie spun and it’s now balled up and ready to weave on her 14″ mahogany square loom. She ‘conned’ me out of my square and then sweet-talked Randy into making her a matching tri. I guess it pays to be related to the lil ole loom-maker! The [...]
Her first square
Posted in Uncategorized on Jul 15th, 2004
Karen decided that her handspun was too thick to weave every nail so she wove every other. I think skipping every thrid or fourth would have worked. She wants to felt this carry all bag, when it’s woven so it might work out just fine this ‘thin’. The colors work out nicely.