tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25042021139084050092024-03-07T01:58:18.323-07:00Deanna's WeavingThis is to document my explorations in weaving and other fiber crafts that I enjoy.Deannahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05099945186873708027noreply@blogger.comBlogger179125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2504202113908405009.post-32446640033858037762022-12-30T22:33:00.002-07:002022-12-30T22:33:57.698-07:00What is the new year going to bring<p>2020 - Covid took my teaching studio from me, and I spent a year sitting, reading, doing puzzles and counted cross-stitch - nothing very creative.</p><p>2021 - I got my first knee replacement and one week later, my husband died.</p><p>2022 - I got a second knee replacement and worked to try to get the weaving mojo back.</p><p>2023 - ?</p><p><br /></p>Deannahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05099945186873708027noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2504202113908405009.post-36023092828752489042021-05-11T10:39:00.004-07:002021-05-11T10:39:59.564-07:00The Sky is Falling<p> <span style="font-family: arial;">This morning I am so stressed out. I was so happy because the city where my teaching studio is has lowered the lockdown, I notified students and had a weaving and cleaning group arranged for this week.</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-EoAei-4ghfI/YJq_XZlmrrI/AAAAAAAALDo/xK-GqsZOdxwWK5J9EO91xJSJVABA1VmYQCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/shelves%2Bpartly%2Bfilled..JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-EoAei-4ghfI/YJq_XZlmrrI/AAAAAAAALDo/xK-GqsZOdxwWK5J9EO91xJSJVABA1VmYQCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/shelves%2Bpartly%2Bfilled..JPG" width="320" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: arial;">We had just put in new shelves and cleared out the studio the fall before plague year. So I was excited to get back to the space and clean a year of dust and cobwebs. Then it came. The city issued an eviction notice. They gave us three days to be out or legal proceedings would start.</span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Yes for me that's 18 floor and table looms, books, yarn and all the extra equipment needed for weaving; for the jewelry that is a bunch of machines and tools, rocks for the lapidary, kilns for the lost wax, and all the extra they need to keep the machines going; for the pottery that's wheels, shelves, several kilns, and all the extras needed to make pottery. We all have thousands of dollars of equipment, that take time and trucks to move and need a space to move them to.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Pray for me.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></p>Deannahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05099945186873708027noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2504202113908405009.post-8015883212938575022021-03-02T18:06:00.000-07:002021-03-02T18:06:10.455-07:00I should really feel lucky<p> <span style="font-family: arial;">I passed my 350th day of being locked out of the teaching studio. Will we be back by fall?</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Mostly I have just been feeling sorry for myself. I kept putting off doing a post, because I was waiting to get some new pictures. Now I find that I can not get the computer to download from my camera and then I get discouraged and don't work on it to figure it out. I have seen this discouragement in so much of what is happening to me now.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">I hear of so many weaver's and artists that have been working and blooming in the lockdown/quarantine/covid time, but I am not able to really function. I just do a lot of sitting, I read a lot of simple fiction and I stare at the phone screen youtube/video/etc and am not completing anything. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">I should be feeling lucky. I have a nice home to stay in, enough money to eat well and a couple of people to share this space with so that I am not alone. I know that there are many around that do not have the basic necessities that I do. But I still am not able to move from the cocoon stage to the butterfly. I am waiting for the change to happen, or for me to get it together and make it happen.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">At the first of the close down, I spent more time sleeping and reading. (I think there were more than a few days that I did not even get out of bed.) I saw my doctor last summer and that seemed to help, but doing much creative is still a stretch. I have been following an on line course and only able to partly do the work. (I need to get it together and make it happen.) </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"> This month I have one class coming to a close and another starting, plus I am doing another video for Curious Mondo at the end of the month and I need to organize for that. The class is using space dyed yarns for a faux ikat design. I did these two shawls some years back when I was playing with this idea.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-clswsd36iws/YD7c-aYH8SI/AAAAAAAAK-0/-Ley2CYxeBEJuGK2rIrQOkVSY4I0Sn5vgCLcBGAsYHQ/s1278/Aurora%2BBorealis.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1278" data-original-width="852" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-clswsd36iws/YD7c-aYH8SI/AAAAAAAAK-0/-Ley2CYxeBEJuGK2rIrQOkVSY4I0Sn5vgCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/Aurora%2BBorealis.JPG" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br /></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-3v4B0d3u3Sc/YD7dHsXYKfI/AAAAAAAAK-4/2tTKG6N-10806Ch2DkjK10z7k7KZQSpHwCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/shawl%2Bin%2Bshow.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1250" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-3v4B0d3u3Sc/YD7dHsXYKfI/AAAAAAAAK-4/2tTKG6N-10806Ch2DkjK10z7k7KZQSpHwCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/shawl%2Bin%2Bshow.JPG" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /> These were my final projects in the self study. The top one for a friend and the bottom one for me. I wrote about them some years back. My shawl is wool and silk and is very nice to wear and can fold up to a small package, so I took it traveling with me (remember traveling?) when I went to Europe. It added that additional layer to help keep me warm. My sister uses scarves for this layer of warmth and always looks so good. I have a ton of scarves, can I start wearing them more often? (I should, I just need to get it together and make it happen.)</span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">I think just sitting is not allowing my body to work at it's best. I got a little pedal machine for my birthday and so I sit and pedal (like a recumbent bicycle) for about 30 minutes a day (most days). This is a good start, but I need to get more active so that I can enjoy this life. I know that on the days that I weave, I always feel better. But right now I have a bunch of empty looms and just vague plans of what I want to put on them. Well not so vague in the case of the class that starts in a couple of weeks. But to read the pattern, I need to reload Fiberworks on my computer.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Yes, along with the computer forgetting how to load pictures from my camera, it also lost some programs. When we upgraded to windows 10 and loaded a new version of office, several programs disappeared. I already have a message from Fiberworks on how to get me going and an offer from a friend to help me get going on the program. I am not a dummy, I should be able to understand and work on that program. (I just need to get it together and make it happen!)</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p>Deannahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05099945186873708027noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2504202113908405009.post-12967704766898753622020-12-02T20:46:00.001-07:002020-12-02T20:46:25.279-07:00 Yes, We have Passed 250 Days<p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;">The way things look now, it will be summer before the studio opens for classes again. That will be over a year. I remember being sad when they said that when Broadway opens again it will have been 444 days - over a year. And now I am facing this too. </span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;">The past month I have been working on finishing my 3 commissions. I would like to have them all mailed out before Christmas. #2 has to be done by then, so that is the one that I am most worried about. </span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;">#1 is the rugs, these are the core-spun alpaca that I have been doing for years. We had a problem with me not being able to get to the bigger looms at the studio. That is often where I weave these rugs. This order had a 3' x 5', but the home Macomber is 40 inches, so I put on 25 yards of warp and got to work. I put a 2' warp on because most of the rugs were that size and I hung extra warp on the sides for the first rug to be 3'. I kept weaving and weaving and I ran out of warp! Its like the "bumps" of weft just kept growing and multiplying when I was not looking. I put on an additional 25 yard warp (I just barely had enough yarn) and I kept weaving. I ended up with 18 rugs and I have hemmed most of them. They are getting close to a finished commission.</span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;">#2 is the blankets. The closed studio really made this one hard. She wanted 40" x 60" blankets and as you know, you need to weave about 20% larger to get the 40", that is 48". At the time she told me about the commission, the studio was open and I have 3 48" to 50" looms. Last spring I had students putting warps on these looms and I told them that they needed to be off by summer, because I would need one of the looms. Then the "world according to covid" started. We were kicked out and no weaving got done on the big looms. By time I got the yarn for the blankets, I was at my wits end. Then I looked at the loom in my living room. There sat a 45" Bergman loom that had never been woven on by me and had sat there for about 10 years. I used it mostly for hanging my Christmas stockings on.</span></p><p style="text-align: left;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqe9NEWaIDBxl-hK3ESuo-OZVBWk2G1yTDFBWe0ZRtEm-FFBOFNNCKfeYIvrQWMAaYDUO828QPpvQvw49eZagAjvh0Xxj1TJIHz-zv3hu-OrA3pL59QwjuNfN4ysnD_cTmf9bCsIH7e3E/s2048/decorated+loom.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1541" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqe9NEWaIDBxl-hK3ESuo-OZVBWk2G1yTDFBWe0ZRtEm-FFBOFNNCKfeYIvrQWMAaYDUO828QPpvQvw49eZagAjvh0Xxj1TJIHz-zv3hu-OrA3pL59QwjuNfN4ysnD_cTmf9bCsIH7e3E/s320/decorated+loom.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: arial;">I have loved this loom since I first saw one, and being counter march, I figured it was my "old Lady" loom. When I can no longer treadle the 16 shaft Macomber, I can still weave with my 12 shaft Bergman. So I set up the month of October to sand and oil the loom, figure how to balance a counter march loom and put on a test warp. Thank heavens for the Facebook Bergman group. I was able to ask questions, see how others worked their looms and get the loom working. The scarf warp wove beautifully and I had a great time with the sound of weaving on an all wood and string loom. They make a different noise than the metal shafts on my Mac.</span><p></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;">I measured the full width warp (720 ends that are 5 yards long) and I got it on the loom today. I have the heddles half threaded and I have called it quits for the day. The loom has hand tied heddles and they are a little slow to thread. If I did not have a deadline on the piece, I would not mind, because I love the look of the heddles on this loom and most of the time I would not need to worry slow working. I am now wondering if my shed will work with the full width and will I be able to get the shuttle across without skipping a thread. Only weaving it will tell. Wish me luck and I hope to have blankets in process in a couple of days.</span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p>Deannahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05099945186873708027noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2504202113908405009.post-63614248717472347382020-10-06T17:59:00.000-07:002020-10-06T17:59:00.102-07:00200 days<p><span style="font-family: arial;">It was 200 days Friday since I have been locked out of my teaching studio. As for all of us, my world has changed. Since I retired, my teaching and my studio time at PCH has been so much of my life, to have it stopped leaves a hole. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">The quarantine time has been very productive for some artists and a blank hole for others. I'm afraid that the blank hole has been my case. Part of it was the hypothyroid problem, but I also could not do anything very creative. I have been able to do things that I do not have to design or make decisions on. I have finished stitchery projects that I started years ago, in some cases. My first was the Jim Shore Santa kit that I got and started years ago. I messed it up and put it away. I actually bought new fabric to start it all over, and with the quarantine it filled the "keep my hands busy" need. The piece is about 14" x 16" and a good part of it is solid stitchery. Since it takes about an hour to do a square inch of it, I was kept busy for a good time and I really like the picture. I got it framed and have it hanging in my livingroom, Christmas in July. I will enjoy it until the Christmas season and then it will go away for a year until next Christmas. I have done that with several pieces that were really Christmas purchases, and I had hanging for a year when I first got them,</span><span style="font-family: arial;"> because I liked them.</span><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-uSUc5HBiJdA/X30K2EXincI/AAAAAAAAK1A/bXy7iW4gLUA45Pik4n2MuNduHvxCf1fVwCLcBGAsYHQ/s1861/Santa%2BStitched.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1861" data-original-width="1477" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-uSUc5HBiJdA/X30K2EXincI/AAAAAAAAK1A/bXy7iW4gLUA45Pik4n2MuNduHvxCf1fVwCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/Santa%2BStitched.jpg" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br />My pictures and for that matter all my computer is messed up because I had to upgrade. I still do not have a good picture editing soft ware, and I am slow to learn the new system. I don't need much because I just do these pictures for myself and not for big prints, but do you have any suggestions for a simple photo editing soft ware?</span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">While I relearn my options, I will continue flailing along.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">My second stitchery was also cross stitch, but one that I have liked for a long time then found it available at my LYS (Shepard's Bush in Ogden). It is Sheep Virtues, and the owners of the shop picked out hand dyed yarns for me to use instead of the ones listed on the pattern. The piece ended up looking great, but as I am having problems with the picture soft ware, I did not take a picture of the finished piece. </span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipol6w14p6BBNQrLYWXSEHoanyxpBE1e_axZF3kGMbgyoKl121FIXWWZbNkWLY5jUxzSa1x0n6ks59nNmhv7BRb_FrewQ_Z3lyTcdcyiYAjiqBWHXX24J7F-IdNzAMFZifE73sbF62QAE/s2048/403+%25282%2529.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1413" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipol6w14p6BBNQrLYWXSEHoanyxpBE1e_axZF3kGMbgyoKl121FIXWWZbNkWLY5jUxzSa1x0n6ks59nNmhv7BRb_FrewQ_Z3lyTcdcyiYAjiqBWHXX24J7F-IdNzAMFZifE73sbF62QAE/s320/403+%25282%2529.jpg" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Here is one of the twelve motifs in process, this is the October one.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Then I finished a counted cross that my Mom gave me, I think before my children were born (that makes is about 40 years) or a little after they were born. It was about half finished and didn't take the time the Santa or Sheep did. After I finished that one, I figured that I could do some new piece that I had bought. When I went through the box of stitchery pieces (yes, I have a box about 30 gallons size) I found another piece on stretchers. So now I am working on a wool yarn crewel piece. When my daughter asked me about the age of this one, I was embarrassed. This piece is number 4 of a series that I started as a teenager. I finished one and framed it, then finished the second and third one after I married. I started the fourth, but somewhere in time the instructions and the stitchery got separated. About 10 years ago I found all the pieces and put them together. Now I am finishing one of my longest standing UFO's. Amazing what quarantine can do for you.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Since I have corrected my meds to help the hypothyroid problem, I have been feeling much better and spending a lot less time in bed or just staring at what was flickering on the computer screen. I have been able to find a secondary teaching space to finish the half class that was stopped 200 days ago. And am considering how I can teach some other classes there, as I don't see the mayor opening up the buildings-our state cases have skyrocketed and until we see some control, we are just staying as we are. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">I hope that those of you reading my work are doing well and are finding ways to continue and improve your lives and I pray that the virus stays away from you. Take care and do all the things you need to keep safe.</span></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>Deannahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05099945186873708027noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2504202113908405009.post-45296323952604746442019-12-27T17:48:00.001-07:002019-12-27T17:48:48.022-07:00Happy Christmas<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I had a great time decorating for Christmas. I even put up a tree this year, the first time for a while. I especially enjoyed putting up my Christmas Star.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I enjoyed bringing out my favorite ornaments and I have a few new ones to add to the tree. We got an ornament from the museum in Florence.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I got some more little houses that had belonged to my Great Aunt in the 20's to add to my little village. The figures were made from pipe cleaners by my sister about 50 years ago.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I stitched some new ornaments for my and my children and added several from the recent trips we had done. In addition to the Uffizi ornament, I also have a couple of boats from places we have visited.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I have quite a bit of greenery that I put up - no none of it is real, but we have several candles and essential oils that we use to give the house that evergreen smell that we like to have. And this way I can enjoy the green without the mess. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I have three cabinets that I add greenery, I have red balls and glass icicles on two of them and one has my collection of nutcrackers.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I spend a month listening to Christmas carols (November), then decorate and enjoy my things. I get most of them down around the 12th day of Christmas. But some of them stay up longer because I want to just look at them. One year I got a painting of St. Nick that stayed up for a year because I liked it so well. I had wanted a copy of it for years, so when I finally got it I enjoyed it for a while.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I love seeing my things and spending time with my family. We mostly cook and eat together. We have a finger food and movie night Christmas eve. Then Christmas day starts with eggs benedict. We have been cooking that breakfast for years and we all love it. Christmas dinner varies depending what we are interested in. This year (since my husband retired he has been doing most of the cooking) my husband said traditional - turkey for Thankgiving, roast beef for Christmas and ham for New Years. We got to have Mom for Christmas Day dinner and we all enjoyed a great meal. Sharing time and food with the ones I love is my favorite way to celebrate.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">At the Pioneer Craft House, where I teach weaving, we did an overhaul of the studio this fall. We started by pulling off the bulletin boards and painting the walls.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The walls had not been painted for a long time, I thought the cleaning would brighten them up but the color was just so dull. We painted over with something warmer and then put shelves up on that wall. <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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We moved the yarn from the closet and the equipment from the cabinets on the west wall. We needed the closet space to store the table looms when they are not being used.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The moving happened while I was weaving a commission on the loom in the fore ground. I had class members and weaver's guild members coming in to get the work done. I was overwhelmed by all the help and at times at a loss to find what items needed to be done.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I have been slowly getting things put together, we got the looms set up after three tries. and the boxes of yarn on the wall labeled. Now the yarn is out to be used by the students and the place looks clear and bright. I am really happy with how it looks. There is still areas that need to be cleared and drawers that need to be organized but the table looms are now out of the way and have a place to be put when they are not being used. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The rug commissions that I was working on during the room improvement got finished and I was able help finish up the studio re-arranging.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I decided to clean all the table looms and get the heddles corrected on them before the new classes start in January.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I fixed the heddles and drilled some of them to fix the apron strings and beaters. I am very pleased with the improvements on the looms. Hopefully they will be in good working order for a couple of years.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Yes there has been a lot going on. I do hope to weave some pieces for me this year and also have some work to show everyone.</span><br />
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Deannahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05099945186873708027noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2504202113908405009.post-20781438102873719812019-07-20T16:21:00.001-07:002019-07-20T16:21:56.419-07:00<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">What have I been doing since December; everything and nothing. I still feel "off", but I set the May trip as my turn around point. Now that the trip is over, I'm starting the health things I should have been doing for a while. My knees gave out during all the walking on the trip, I had a panic attack because of them, but now I am able to see it is time to make the life style changes to get me on track. Eating better could help my low energy problem and help me get back on track. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I have a couple of doctor visits coming up and I am watching my food intake, I need to stay healthy and able to enjoy my life.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">But, you know, if I wait for things to "slow down" I will never get to anything. And I have been doing things. January found me overwhelmed by the cold and no desire to get out of bed. I worked on getting Christmas decorations down (I did get it all down by February). I also wove some samples to see what sett I could use on some cones of yarn that I have had for quite a while. I probably have several pounds of each color, so could I make lightweight scarves, or denser fabric for towels? After washing the samples, I found that there was rayon in the yarn and I don't like rayon in towels, they get "limp" after washing.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I taught a six week overshot class and my beginning weaving class in Januay, Feburary and march and I tried a Beginning Plus class for those students who had taken the beginning, but wanted more help before they jumped into an intermediate class. It went quite well and I will probably offer it again. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I got a color gamp kit as a gift for Christmas and decided that it was a good one to demonstrate warping for my class and then I would have a good color example to go on the walls in the studio.<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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The kit had 30 threads per color and in my haste to get it on the loom I sleyed the reed at 30 epi, it should have been 20 epi. I re sleyed (I had warped back to front so the heddles were fine). The color gamp worked well, I wove one in plain weave and one in twill. There was enough warp on that I wove a towel using a gray linen that I found in the cupboard. I had to triple the yarn to make it fit, but I like the towel. I hung them up in the studio, so i will try to get a picture of the finished items.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">April was busy. The local guild brought Jennifer Moore for a workshop. I have done a lot of double weave, but the workshop was not filled and I love spending three days with my weaver friends. She threads her double weave different than the straight draw that I learned from the Tidball book, but I think it makes designing a little easier. She converted me and I need to change all my handouts to teach her method. (She uses a parallel threading, check out her book to get some great information and project ideas.)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">We did her color mixing blocks and I used the dark color kit from Cotton Clouds. I had a couple friends that dyed the yarns to use and others ordered the regular rainbow or pastel rainbow colors. There were some interesting pieces. I was wanting some fringe between these pieces so I just wove in a few shots of weft to hold it, that is why it has the watermark look.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">My mother loves butterflies, so the siblings took her to see the new exhibit at Thanksgiving Point. We took a great picture of Mom and the five of us, but I guess that was put on facebook and I can't get to it. <span id="goog_1365862715"></span><span id="goog_1365862716"></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The last weekend in April, I got to take a five day Shibori Dye class with Ana Lisa Hedstrom. I have followed here work for ages, so it was great to get to take a class from her. I got some great results with the arashi (pole wrapping) technique. I am thrilled and have plans to do several more. I can't believe that I can't find pictures of my dyes. I guess I'd better get them documented. I'll try to remember to show you later.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">May, of course, was taken up with travel. My DH and I spent three weeks in Florence, Italy. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> I feel so blessed to be able to have gone. Just like every time I do a BIG trip, I feel blessed and don't expect to be able to again. This time my knees were bad and I was not able to walk as much as I would have liked. However, I did get to see a number of places that I had not seen before and I had a wonderful time. Both of my children were able to come over and share some of the time with us.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I managed to get a tour in a velvet and brocade workshop and see the looms in action.<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Velvet is the queen of woven fabrics. If you look carefully you see a blue warp running horizontal and through the lease sticks (the ground of the fabric). Then you see some gold and blue threads running diagonally from the lease sticks behind the shafts and down to rows of spools. Each thread is weighted separately on the spools and this is the warp pile threads. I loved watching the weavers and just looking at the old looms.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Each loom had one or two jacquard heads on the top of them (about 6 feet up) and that is how the pattern was done. You can see the white threads coming down from the jacquard head to lift the shafts. One of the weaver's told me that when then get a hold of another jacquard, they have to manufacture the parts to get it going. They had ones that controlled a one hundred thread repeat and some that controlled a four hundred thread repeat. I didn't get enough pictures, after a while I was just walking in awe of the equipment and workmanship.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This month I will be going to the Intermountain Weaver's Conference and taking a class in sewing with handwovens. I have several (boxes full) pieces of yardage that I would like to turn into clothing, wish me well.</span><br />
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Deannahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05099945186873708027noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2504202113908405009.post-70724748953624628612018-12-28T17:57:00.002-07:002018-12-28T17:57:56.140-07:00The Year<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This year has been difficult for me. Somehow I have felt out of "sync", like I have been a little off and not able to do anything. I know that I have done some things, am I just doing less and that is the problem. Am I not doing "everything" that I feel I should, so I feel like I do nothing? It is a hard thing to face and to figure what I can do to bring myself out of it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">On the whole, I look at my life with a smile and so thankful for everything and everybody around me. I am so blessed to have been able to do so much. Why do I feel I am not able to do enough? Do I have a deep down feeling that I need to do more to "repay" the world for giving me such a good life? Am I just thinking too much? Are the American politics just wearing me down?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">When I was taking pictures and posting earlier this year, I seem to have been doing a great deal and having a wonderful time. But this fall I have been slower at recognizing the joy in my life. I need to get my joy back and enjoy life.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In September our season tickets to the Utah Symphony/Opera started and I have loved being able to listen to live music. I have been able to hear pieces that are well known to me and be introduced to new music to learn about. Utah Opera productions seem to get better each year. Romeo and Juliet was not my favorite over the past couple of years, but the voices that they bring in are fantastic and I enjoy the sets and production.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In October I was able to take a workshop from Bonnie Inouye and it was fantastic. She is so knowledgeable and I have been wanting to take a workshop from her for a while. This one was Big Twill and she introduced a few things in ways I had never thought about before. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Her workshop was a continuation of the interest that I have in the "Echo and Iris" book and the techniques covered in it. I had some classes and a workshop in Reno this summer that fell under that study heading and this workshop added to the knowledge I have acquired. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I had two self study directions that I tried this year. "Echo and Iris" was one and the other is crackle. I have been working on a sampler exploring the structure of crackle. I have woven it before, but I wanted to really understand the possibilities. I am not sure that I have it down yet, but I will finish that sampler and move on to a couple of projects to try learning more I plan to continue the crackle study next year and will be taking a workshop from Susan Wilson to help me learn more. So one of the first things to do in the new year is to finish the crackle sampler.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I will also continue the echo and iris study line in the next year. I have a couple of projects that I want to put one to extend my understanding of the four color work. I want to understand a little about picking colors out to make the design look iridescent. I worked through some of the book when I was doing some double weave this summer in the Spady class, but there is so much more in that book. I hope to do a four color piece on the crackle sampler, I like the turned crackle and want to see how it can be done to give the iridescence.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I have worked to empty some looms. The big push was to get the RH looms empty and put away. I have three done and one to go. I need to spend less time on the internet and more time on my weaving. I have a lot of plans and need to work a little harder on "follow through".</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This year, Christmas was the year of the bad lights. I had one garland with the center lights out. I replaced it with an led set. I hope this garland lasts longer. I have four garlands on top of three of the bookshelves/cabinets in the house and one on the stairs coming into the house. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">We have a couple of small trees outside by the front door. This year the lights did this.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">There must have been a short in that section of the tree lights, because every one of the bulbs was burned out. My husband found the look very disturbing so he bought a small string of lights and wrapped them over the top of the tree. The trees looked great for about a week, then the other tree did the same thing. My DH bought another string of lights and wrapped them on top of that tree. Now the bottoms of the two trees are out. Like I said a bad year for lights. I had my DH buy two additional strings of lights, so I can strip down these trees and relight them and put new colored ornaments on them. The beautiful red ornaments that I originally put on these trees have faded to an orange color so it is time to re-do them. So that is another project for me to do after the 12 days of Christmas when we take down the greenery.</span><br />
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Deannahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05099945186873708027noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2504202113908405009.post-42692835076928209982018-09-19T13:19:00.000-07:002018-09-19T13:19:53.311-07:00Short Summer<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">As we ease into Autumn, I am trying to see what I did the past summer. I know that things were busy, and I know there were some thyroid problems causing me to be a little down, but overall it was pretty good.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">My daughter joined a local Cambodian dance group. She was in long enough to do one performance. I had fun going to the festival and eating well, then seeing my daughter with the dance group.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> I also went to the local Tulip festival with her. I enjoy my adult children and I love flowers.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">As a family we camped in Arches National Park. This is an area that we have been to many times, but it has been several years since we were able to camp in the park. It was a great time and being in the "red rock country" refreshes my soul. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">My sisters took mom for a weekend away. We visited her old family home, and a cousin that she grew up with. It was a great time for her and I think we managed to not wear her out too much.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I taught another video classes with Curious Mondo. I enjoy the classes, but it is a lot of work to get all the equipment set up and moved to the studio. I am still working on emptying a couple of the four looms that I set up for the class.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">July was two weeks in Reno with the weaver's conferences. I had not been to Convergence for quite a few years. I always enjoyed this conference, but it is expensive. For the years when I worked in the weaving store the manager would always go and I ran the store while she was gone. Now that Convergence and Complex Weaver's are in the same city I can go to both. I took a great workshop from Robyn Spady and it jump started my interest in parallel threading and "echo" weave. I followed her instructions and then when I got home, I used the great book "Echo and Iris" to get some additional treadlings on the sample. I want to continue my exploration in this direction. My problem is that between teaching, commissions and life I don't seem to have the energy to do my own projects! I always found the fashion show wonderful. It used to be mostly wild runway pieces, but this fashion show had many pieces of clothing that we could wear in regular life.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Three conferences ago, I went to my first Complex Weaver's. I loved this group of sharing women, and loved feeling like there was so much more I wanted to learn. These women are doing some things that I don't have the equipment or interest in, but they challenge me to try new things and explore places in weaving that I hadn't tried before. I decided at that first conference that I would try to attend it every time. I may not be able to always attend, but I love that thought of going and learning new things, and looking at weaving in new ways.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This was a great experience that I had looked forward to for a few months. I loved hanging out with several hundred weavers...my tribe.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">We had a fall trip to Yellowstone National Park scheduled, but between Reno and Yellowstone, I had a commission to weave 19 rugs.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I put 24 yards of wool rug warp on the Macomber loom at Pioneer Craft House and used a lot of it for these rugs. I have an additional four rugs to weave for a second rug commission and that should use all the rug warp. These rugs are alpaca corespun yarn, quite fast to weave because they are 4 to 5 ppi.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Our Yellowstone trip was fun, I had not been there of several years. We decided to not worry about cooking all the meals, so we just planned to eat at the lodges part of the time.. That turned out to be a good decision, because we had evening and night rain a couple of days and no one felt like cooking in that weather. There are so many places to eat there it was no problem. My favorite was the Yellowstone Hotel, I want to go back and stay there.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">We have been doing a lot this summer, but somehow I feel that I have not been keeping up with things that I am supposed to be doing. I need to learn to enjoy what I am able to do and let go of those things that I don't get to.</span>
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Deannahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05099945186873708027noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2504202113908405009.post-6638252647696347162018-08-17T13:53:00.003-07:002018-08-17T13:53:46.157-07:00Summer<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Deannahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05099945186873708027noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2504202113908405009.post-91914394438500190132018-04-29T20:01:00.000-07:002018-04-29T20:01:05.815-07:00Spring<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">April has been sunshine and snow. It is funny to have a day when the temperature is 70 degrees and the next day it is snowing. My daffodils got snowed on several times this year.</span><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It has a lacy look and I am very pleased with it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I also did some weaving for a woman who does baby wraps. I have always wondered about weaving them. It is a lot like weaving yardage, just the same thing over and over. In this case the 8/2 was about 24 ppi and it took a while to weave a yard. I was slower than I usually think about my weaving. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It was pretty familiar to weave, because it was on a Macomber loom. It was about 8 inches wider than mine, so it felt heavier, but I love to weave on a Mac.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I also took a class in tonder lace with the bobbin lace group. I have always loved the look of point ground laces and I was interested in tonder. I was a bit over my head. I had not done lace for a few months and it took a couple of hours for me to get into the groove. Tonder is done with 140/2 cotton and so after a six hour day, I had about a half an inch. I took it apart a couple of times and I had to adjust to that fine yarn. At first I was breaking it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The second piece that I got to start is a straight edge that this heart is based on. It is really beautiful lace. I am not sure if I like this better than Bucks point.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I am also working on getting my old stacks of stuff cleaned up and some of it given away. I really think it is time that I pass around some of my "stash". There are some projects that I will never get around to.</span></div>
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Deannahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05099945186873708027noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2504202113908405009.post-48118864113087176232018-03-20T15:55:00.000-07:002018-03-20T15:55:00.792-07:00Time Flys<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">My life continues like everyone else, some days are good, some days are better than most and some days we are just getting by.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I started getting a list together of how much each of my looms have been doing this year, but it just got stuck and never made any progress. So I abandoned the list, my looms have been working, but I don't know exactly how much. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I was disappointed that the yardage did not come off the Big Mac before the end of the year. But a couple of weeks in I finished it. I was not able to find any weft to continue the fabric, so I did a slightly different color for the last yard, maybe it will work for a companion piece or trim on the original.</span><br />
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On the right side is the original stripe with the very bright handspun (about 2 yards) in the center is the coordinating fabric (about 3 yards and on the left is the extra fabric (about 1 yard). The original two fabrics have a peacock yarn for the warp and weft, and the extra fabric ended up with bottle green for the weft. I think it made a good fabric and I hope I can come up with a good piece of clothing.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I taught a rug class and a beginning weaving class for the winter session. Both classes filled and were fun to do, but I sometimes want some time off to do my work. (But when I do get that day off, I have so much on my mind to do that it seems like nothing gets done.)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I have started to be satisfied if I get two or three of the things taken care of. I try not to feel bad if I don't finish the "To Do" list. Instead at the end of the day I try to look at what I did manage to get done. Usually I am very satisfied with the list I was able to do, and I try not to just look at what I did not get done. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I warped my three rigid heddle looms for a video class, then decided I needed a fourth example and bought a Baby Cricket (10") and warped her up. I have not got any of the projects off the loom. But the one that did badly in the class, I resleyed it and got a good sample going. I think it will be used for small zipper bags. I need to get things done to try to have for sales.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I think I will be much happier with this structure. I did some small bags with this type of boundweave on a rigid heddle loom years ago and I liked the look and feel of them.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I have been binge watching too much Netflix. I think it is an avoidance technique. But while I am watching, I keep my hand busy doing stitchery. Things I have not done for a number of years. It has been fun. There are a couple of counted cross projects that I have started, but the things I have finished are quite an odd group.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">To top it all off, last fall when I was in Harrisville, I bought a pot holder loom. You know, the kind we all made potholders from sock loops when we were young. This is the Pro-sized and makes bigger potholders. I made about 30 of them!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I went crazy with color and weave patterns. What am I going to do with so many potholders. At our Sister's Date in January, I let everyone pick out a couple for them to use, so I am down about 8...but that is still a lot of potholders!</span><br />
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Deannahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05099945186873708027noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2504202113908405009.post-87205568495402693882017-12-31T18:08:00.000-07:002017-12-31T18:08:41.048-07:00End of the Year<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Yesterday my husband changed the calendars. I guess he is ready for the year to be over. I wanted to wait, because I wanted to finish weaving the warp on my Big Mac before the year was out. I have been weaving, but ran into a snag.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This warp has been on the loom for a long time, and for a while I just stacked things on top of the loom and was not weaving it at all. (I have been weaving on a number of other looms.)</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As you can see, it was a sorry sight</span>.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I decided a couple months ago to clean around, on and under the loom, and clear space so I could sit down and weave. It was a goal to get it off the loom before another year had passed. I have been weaving and really enjoying using this loom again. I finished a couple of yards with the handspun accent yarn, then started the yardage without the handspun. This is a draft of a fabric from Linton Textiles and I think I had plans for a jacket and skirt. </span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The plain yardage still shows the floats where the handspun was.</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I always planned to make the companion yardage (to the handspun) with the same treadling so that the floats would give it texture. I really like the way it worked out. But I ran out of weft yarn.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There is at least a yard of warp left.</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So where do I go from here? Should I see if I can get another cone of the peacock color? Should I weave it off in a different color to make something else? I do have some of the handspun left and could use that with a different color weft. I am at a stand still...I don't think I can come up with the answer before the year is out! So this one will not get finished this year...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I have finished a large number of weavings, and I have started (and even finished) some sitichery pieces. I did not knit so many socks this year, but have done knitting. This summer I got a pro-sized potholder loom from Harrisville Designs and I have made more than a dozen potholders...it has been fun. I need to get them to my family and have them pick their favorite...I can't use that many!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I have started some alpaca ponchos. This is a test to see if I can make them cheaply enough to sell (I need to see if I can make them to sell wholesale to the grower). It is tough to do, I keep track of my time for warping, weaving and finishing the projects then see if she feels that she can make money on it. The fabric is beautiful, but it seems to be taking too much time.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Happy New Year to everyone. I hope the love and the joy of the holiday season follows you throughout the new year.</span><br />
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Deannahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05099945186873708027noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2504202113908405009.post-20552642453004488182017-12-23T22:31:00.000-07:002017-12-23T22:31:51.349-07:00christmas<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Christmas, end of the year, winter solstice...It's that time of year. I find myself so emotional about everything; teary at commercials, sad (or happy) stories. I wonder what makes me feel this way.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I feel that I have not got as much done as I should, my "work ethic" is not up to par, I just want to curl up in bed with the heater on. I should be happier.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The lights are up, </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The advent days are counting by,</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We even have some snow,</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">but it is such an emotional time.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I feel like I need a new start, a new direction, a new year.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I guess I do have one of those starting up...let's see if I can do something with it.</span><br />
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Deannahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05099945186873708027noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2504202113908405009.post-34706419139812432412017-11-14T10:57:00.000-07:002017-11-14T10:57:21.323-07:00Beautiful Autumn<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This week has been beautiful weather. It is getting cool and the leaves are changing. Also, my overbooked fall is also coming to an end, after this week my schedule has really slowed down, just in time for the holidays!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Today was the memorial service for a student and friend, that alone makes it a retrospective day, but the beautiful mountains also added to my calm. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I had several great opportunities this fall and so I was busy making the commitments. After a break of a couple weeks, I started the fall classes. Then I realized that all my Saturdays in September and October we committed to different places. I started the first week with a great Weaver's guild meeting the first week in September, we had a wonderful dye class. We got 16 colors using 8 baggies and two dyes. We used 4 different percentages of the first dye color and then we over-dyed with four percentages of the second dye color. We then had a wonderful collection of related colors. I shared the dye process, so I only have a small ball of each color, but I can knit a hat or weave a scarf from them. Best of all I had a great time with my guild friends. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The next week I was sitting a booth at the Farmer's Market for the Craft House and my beginning weaving class also started. The Farmer's Market has been a great opportunity to get exposure for the classes the we teach at the Craft House, this Saturday, we even had a kick-wheel for demonstrating pottery!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Classes continued the next week and I had a booth at the Norse Fest at the local museum. This is were I have a piece in their "hallway" show in conjunction with the Swedish Viking show. I was explaining Viking weaving and showing my weaving and selling. I had my Baby Wolf and we were VERY busy. The museum got a larger attendance than anticipated. It was a successful sell for me and I was very tired when it was over. I got some passes and my sisters brought Mom to see me and the show. There were several booths with various Scandinavian arts and crafts. The next day I also had a commitment to sit a booth at the Gem Fair...it was a very busy weekend. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Two days later, we headed out for vacation. The four of us, me and hubby and the two adult children, flew back east to see some new country for us and visit family. We flew into Boston and spend a day riding the "T" and walking around until we were dead tired. We, of course, also ate all of the local specialties that we could and my husband and son got to see ships. None of the four of us had spent any time in this part of the country so we all were excited to see everything and had only enough time to see a little. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The second day, we went a little south to Plymouth, MA. I was very interested in seeing the history and pilgrim life. I really enjoyed the plantation (it has been there since 1950) and the food in the city was again great. The city of Plymouth does not have any "chain" restaurants, so all the food was local and wonderful. I had clam chowder that I really liked. My clam chowder is great, but with fresh clams, this chowder was wonderful. I need to "up my game" and find fresh clams here in the desert...it does not sound easy!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">We then headed up to Vermont and New Hampshire to see the fall colors, unfortunately they had only just started changing and we mostly saw green. We drove around back roads and found a bunch of covered bridges to take pictures of, but my photographer son said the light was not good and there were too many power lines to get good pictures. I thought is was fun to see the bridges some very old and some new, but built to look old.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It was overcast and light rain the next day and we decided to travel back to Massachusetts to go to Salem. My daughter was excited to see the "witches" town and as we were there in October...every weekend is a big celebration. On the way to Salem, I got to stop in Harrisville, to see the mill, and in Lowell to see where the big mill towns started. Both places were very interesting to me and even my family found it interesting. At Lowell, there was a women explaining how weaving is done and, of course, my family had no need of that demonstration...they see it every day! The old looms working were noisy and very fun to see.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">By time we were flying home, I was tired and the five hours in the plane gave me a bit of claustrophobia. I haven't experienced that for a while.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I got home just in time to teach a class at the Natural History Museum. I ended up with over twenty students, but they were all adults...I had thought that I would have a mix of adult and children. The class was good, but again I was really tired when it was over. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">That brings us to this week, it started off great with our first opera of the season. They started off with La Boheme and it was a wonderful production. I had three private lessons, and I started the beginning rigid heddle class Saturday. </span><br />
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Deannahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05099945186873708027noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2504202113908405009.post-24650619086507764212017-08-20T19:17:00.002-07:002017-08-20T19:17:42.701-07:00Sorry, I have no excuse<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I have not been keeping up my end of the deal. I have not been posting what I have been doing. I'm sorry...It is so easy to get out of the habit and then I have an empty blog. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The summer has been a nice one. I have suffered from being hot a lot of the time, but the evenings recently have cooled down and it is easier to sleep. That seems so odd, because it used to be that August was the hot and muggy month for us. July had the wonderful lightning and thunder storms and August was hot. We really are losing our "normal."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">I was excited to see my pillow in the hallway
show at the Utah Museum of Natural History and the Viking show from the museum
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is fantastic. It is interesting to see the real history after watching
the TV version on the show "Vikings." I will be teaching a
class in simple weaving for them in October.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">I finished weaving a commission that ended up
being 42 scarves. That is a lot of weaving. I am glad to have it
finished and there will probably not be another big commission for a while.
That means that I can get some of my projects finished and get some work
done on re-doing the shelves in the sto</span><span style="font-family: Arial;">rage room.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">I did a four-wheel trail ride with my husband and son. It was the Hastings Cut-off. This is part of the pioneer trail where wagon trains traveled from the "civilized" east to the "wild" west. The Hastings Cut-off is famous, because that is where the Donner Party traveled, took too much time there and because of that, they arrived at Donner pass one day late, they got snowed in and many died.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">The trail ride was led by people that had studied the journals of the time and had great information about the troubles that these people faced on their trip. Lack of water seemed to be one of the worst problems. We were there in June and it was hot and windy. They were there in August and traveling over the salt flats must have been horrible.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">June passed in a blur of classes. At the end of the month we did our family trip, we stay at Bear Lake on the Utah/Idaho border. We are there for three nights and four days and we just enjoy the sun and the water. The days were warm but not too hot, and the evenings were cool and I slept well. We did not have too many of Mom's great grand children, so it seemed a little quiet. There were only about 20 or 25 of us in the group, but three generations. Mom really enjoyed being with her family...at 92 I don't know how many more she will be able to go to.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">I spent a Saturday in July at the local farmer's market advertising the classes at Pioneer Craft House. It was hot and sunny, I thought I would get sunstroke from being there. (Last week when we had a booth again I was much more comfortable the temperature was at least 20 degrees cooler.)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">The end of July, I spend a great week in Durango, Colorado at the Intermountain Weaver's Conference. I took a class on doing sprang and it was very interesting. I only got a couple of small pieces done, but I now understand a lot more about the process. There were some great workshops and it was so fun to see old friends and catch up.</span></div>
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Deannahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05099945186873708027noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2504202113908405009.post-46636312152072784452017-05-16T16:49:00.003-07:002017-05-16T16:49:43.583-07:00I've been Sick<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">My only excuse for not posting is having a bad cough with aches and pains the last few days and having overbooked myself for several weeks. I know the "being busy" just feeds into the feeling we all have of "What's new?" </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">My main worry was the video class that I had agreed to do. I ended up putting off my regular classes until the video class was over, but it really overwhelmed me.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It was fun, I will probably do one again, I learned that I need to have more of my stuff organized and printed ready to go, and make sure that I don't plan anything else when you are getting ready.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I had planned to go on a camping trip the week before (my DS had reservations for the White Rim Trail in Canyonlands National Park), but at the last minute I sent DS and DH to have a guys trip and I stayed home to get ready. They had a wonderful time, and I mostly got ready...a good result all around.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">One of the days that I was filming, I got a call (I didn't take it) to have a loom ready for a film set. (I dealt with that after the filming was done.)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In the video set it was very interesting, these people really know what they are doing and I am glad to do a video with them instead of trying to do one on my own. I do not want to learn the necessary things to get it right and they really had all that knowledge.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">They had overhead cameras and were able to do a pretty good close up on my hands and what I was doing. I had my sister watch the show so that I would know how it looked.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As soon as the video was finished I had to figure how to get a loom dismantled just enough to get out of a three foot door and still warped enough to have it set up in a reasonable amount of time for the film set. Since the loom was an old Hammet and not able to fold up, I spent some time mentally dismantling it and turning it on edge to get through the door. The film crew bundled it up for moving and I followed them to the set to get it working. It ended up looking good and I found time to go back down, dismantle it again and get it back up to the weaving studio.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The weather has been Spring...rain, sun, and snow all in a day or two. My DH has been doing wonderful things to the yard. We have a garden and lots of things coming up...I hope to have fresh peas to make some spring soup and maybe, french radishes for sandwiches. Our radishes are often too hot, and the long french ones are great in sandwiches, so he planted some for me. When we stayed in Aix-on-Provence, I had fantastic radishes from the markets and enjoyed sandwiches on a baguette. I would love to have some of that here to remind me of that great time.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I got a call to have my Swedish art weave pillow in a show. The dates that I thought I needed it done were in the fall, then a call comes that they need to pick up the pillow the first part of May! It has to sit in a super freezer for a couple of weeks before they can put it in the museum! The only problem was I had woven panels, but no pillows made. I had made decisions about what I wanted the pillows to look like, I knew how the construction needed to be done and that the ultimate background fabric needed be black linen. I had wanted to weave a small band to go above and below the panel, but now I did not have time to do that. A quick trip to the local fabric store, and I found exactly the fabric that I wanted to use, then I spent four days sewing them up. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">After the first seams, I realized that the band would have been over-kill. The patterns on the panels were busy enough. I decided that the third pillow that I had woven was the one I wanted to put in the show. It has all five of the patterns on it. Next week is the opening and I am excited to see what else is in the show.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">My cold is getting better. Today I decided to not take any of the medications that I had been taking for it. Yesterday the medications were making me fill groggy and worse than the cold symptoms. Now I have a bit of congestion and an occasional cough...I can handle that with cough drops and ibuprofen. I am still taking it easy, when I was working full time, my colds would last for months because I never gave my body time to heal. Now I know better and have the ability to take time off. An extra nap in the afternoon, and some quiet time reading each day to give my body what it needs...sounds like the good life to me.</span><br />
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Deannahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05099945186873708027noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2504202113908405009.post-878719363020662102017-04-10T18:15:00.000-07:002017-04-10T18:15:30.526-07:00I'm going to teach a video class<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Deannahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05099945186873708027noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2504202113908405009.post-4257938689563883442017-04-08T18:27:00.000-07:002017-04-08T18:27:46.185-07:00April Showers<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We have been getting more rain than usual and warm weather. My spring flowers have been beautiful and the blooming trees around town have been great to see.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This tree is beautiful, I am told it does not have a good fragrance. But because my sense of smell is so undeveloped, I love seeing this tree bloom each spring.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The golden crocus are gone now, but they always give me a good feeling when I see them. They make me smile!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Sarah Jackson workshop was great fun. I always love spending 2 or 3 days with my weaving buddies, but I got to look at color in a new way.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We did color wrappings, picking colors looking at a picture or a fabric. Sarah had a table full of great colors of 8/2 cotton. I do not have that good of a collection of cotton, but I decided that I could come up with a good color scheme from a picture or something by using embroidery floss. That comes in many colors and is not too expensive. That way I can find a color scheme that I want to play with and then work on the weaving yarns to do a piece.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We all got to play with a beautifully colored warp and we got to try all different colors to cross it with. The mixes of warp and weft color made some great designs. A good place to start from when designing.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I did not get my warp finished by time the class was done, and I have not been able to get to it with all I have been trying to finish. I need to focus and get some things done while I am between teaching classes.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Along with the workshop, we had a show and it is fantastic. There are so many great pieces in the show. We have weaving, stitchery, quilting, bobbin lace...it is a true fiber arts show. I was so pleased to get the HGA prize for my scarf. This is one that I wove in singles linen and worked to get a collapse cloth. I ended up using my spinning wheel to add twist to the weft and when I took it off the loom and wet it, it did just what I wanted it to. I love this scarf and wear it more than any other of my scarves.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I also went on a trip with my sisters. We took Mom on a long weekend to Albuquerque. For various reasons we drove, we stayed in a nice BnB house and enjoyed a couple of days. We went to museums, walked around "Old Town", bought Indian jewelry and enjoyed each other's company. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> I saw some great color combinations at the Georgia O'Keeffe gallery, beautiful stained glass at the local churches and I spent way too much money. (However, I do not regret any purchase!)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And Mom took a picture of the four of us at the house.</span><br />
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Deannahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05099945186873708027noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2504202113908405009.post-74698960726300169652017-03-21T18:16:00.000-07:002017-03-21T18:16:35.405-07:00I have a computer again<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Our household had been partially without a computer. I don't know what happened, but the main tower would let the other two linked computers work, but my files were not available. I have been in panic mode trying to get taxes for my business finished and figuring how I could write up an invoice.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Thanks to my DS, I now have a halfway computer. We have it running on a different processor (it seems to be the motherboard giving us problems). So we need to order new parts and get my original tower working. This one is really slow, and will not play online videos. Small problems for the joy of being able to get into my files.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">My winter classes are almost done and because of a road trip with my sisters, I will not be starting again until the end of April. A little time to catch up on the things I want to do around the house. I really need to get my studio and the annex in shape, walking in there is like a pathway house. I have lots of craft stuff and I need to decide what I can actually do and what can be passed on to someone else. I think I can live forever and get all the projects done...but that may not be the case.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The first of this month, I took a 3 day workshop with Sarah Jackson...her color workshop. It was great fun and I even learned a few things. It is always good to be forced to combine colors in a different way. I took lots of pictures, but unfortunately, I can't figure how to put pictures on this computer tower. Sarah is a great teacher and shares herself and her design sense with you. This is my second workshop with her and she helps me think about weaving things in a different way. It is always good to get another perspective on what you are doing.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I am still weaving scarves and a few rugs. I was pleased to get one set done, that is the invoice that I was so worried about. I have another set going on the loom now, but no new pictures.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This group is alpaca (the previous was Icelandic Sheep), and has more white. I plan to do the pinwheel and dornik check patterns, but one llama was named "Lace" and is white. I want to do some lace scarves from her yarn. I think they will be wonderful.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This weekend, I'm going on a road trip with my Mom and sisters. We only have a long weekend, but it will be good to get out of the valley and see something new. I hope to be able to go to the Folk Art Museum in Santa Fe while we are there.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Spring is blooming everywhere. The trees are in bloom and daffodils are blooming.</span><br />
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Deannahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05099945186873708027noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2504202113908405009.post-75152526267982364582017-02-12T16:47:00.000-07:002017-02-12T16:47:17.370-07:00Onward and Upward<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I have really been AWOL on my internet presence. I want to change that.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I have been feeling better, the smog is gone today and we have blue skies and sun today. It should last for a few days. I was lucky enough to spend a few days the end of January in the mountains and again great blue skies and sun. I have obviously needed the sun. My DH was driving around on one of the sunny days this week and saw a car pulled up in the school parking lot (on a Saturday), there was an older couple (like our age!) who had opened the back of the car, got a couple of chairs out and they were enjoying "catching a few rays". That is what I have been trying to do also...get some sun and help my attitude.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I need to look at the government condition not as something to make me crazy/sad, but instead of a call to get more involved in the things that are important to me. I want to see equality and equity for all people, I want to see the natural world protected, and I want to see a healthy economy (not necessarily a growing economy, but a healthy one - bigger is not necessarily better).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Am I being a "Pollyanna" about this?...I don't think so...at least not too much. I am not totally ignoring the problems, but I choose not to dwell on them.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The trip to the mountain cabin was our Christmas gift. With unmarried adult children, we like to do things, not give things. We stayed in a little cabin (unfortunately with a small mouse) at Fish Lake. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We have stayed there before in the winter, starting in the 1980's. It is well known for ice fishing. We don't fish, but instead we cross-country ski, or snow shoe, or walk out on the lake and see ice fishing. (Did you know the lake makes the most wonderful deep cracking sounds?) Or just sit and enjoy the time. <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This year I did a lot of sitting by the fire and reading, and sitting by the window and letting the sun shine on me. It was very cold outside (walking on the snow, it made a squeaking</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> sound) so sitting outside in the sun was not comfortable. But the few days away from the stress of everyday and the horrible smog we get in the winter was really good. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />I have been teaching classes and they are slightly over full, so a little more work. I've spent some time up at Mom's running errands with her. And I have said yes to too many additional things that I want to do. The calendar is filling up fast!.. thus the stress. I need to learn to say "no" a few times.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I have gotten some work done...but I've been slower than I wished.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Here is the end of the third warp out of four. The fourth will be shorter, because I am using up the last of the yarn.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I enjoyed our January Sister's Date. We decided to do Valentine's decorations. One sister was stitching on a previously started red fabric, stitching hearts. She said it was probably a pillow. Another sister was making Valentine's Day cards. She was stitching hearts on the fronts...she saw that idea on Pinterest. The other two of us were stitching hearts to hang. I have a hanger that I use to show off my Christmas bobbin lace ornaments, I want to use it for other holidays, so I started a Valentine's heart. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Here is my work so far. The first layer of design is the lace and stitched boarder. Now I am adding the second layer of stitchery...some flowers and probably vines. Then I will add some beads to finish it off. There is also a back side, but it only has a white small heart stitched on for the first layer.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The heart that I will probably have displayed this year was made and given to my by my sister that loves patchwork and putting pieces together to make something. It is a wonderful crazy quilt looking heart.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Isn't it great. She has a wonderful stash of lace and fabric, then adds some stitchery. I love it and will put it on the bigger display hanger.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I also celebrated a birthday in February...and my DD got my cake at my favorite bakery.</span><br />
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Deannahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05099945186873708027noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2504202113908405009.post-73965941391327693242017-01-14T21:32:00.000-07:002017-01-14T21:32:03.551-07:00Limbo<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I have had a hard time the last couple of months, physically, mentally and spiritually. My physical problems a minor compared to so many people, but they slowed me down. I feel like I have done less than I should and the studio that I teach at has been fighting to maintain. We found out that we lost the case, so I don't know if I will be able to continue teaching there...do I place my worth as the business I do...does the title of teacher constitute my self worth? And I have not been able to find my camera for a month...what did I do with it?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The end of September we had a great time in southern Utah. We planned to camp at Bryce National Park, and stopped at Cedar Breaks National Monument on the way down. The aspen trees were beautiful in transition to fall and the area is volcanic so the contrast with the lava rock was beautiful.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">We were lucky to get a camp site in the park...thanks to my son and DH's efforts. It is great to be in the park so that an early morning walk puts you at the edge of the basin to see the sun rise and the deer eating, or evenings watching the sun set.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I spent one morning watching a small herd of deer with a pair of fawns...they are hard to photograph with my skills and they blend in with the background, but they were fun to watch.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">My son tried to get some long exposure star pictures with the hoodoos as foreground, but the weather did not cooperate and the clouds came in to mess it up. As usual, he did get some great pictures...how can you not in a place like this.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">On one of the sunrise walks, I slipped in a wet sand area, it had been raining the night before. My feet went out from under me and I hit hard, first hip, then shoulder, then head. I don't think I lost consciousness, but I saw stars. Amazing, just like the cartoons from my childhood, I really saw stars! I spent the afternoon feeling pretty bad, nauseous and sleepy. I managed to enjoy the rest of the time there, but I really cut back on what I was doing.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The month of October was a total blur. I was teaching two or three nights a week and even four nights on a week or two. I managed to get my class materials together and do well in the classes, but I spent almost all the rest of the day sleeping. I may have had flu then too, I had some stomach problems, but maybe it was the after effects of the concussion. When each class was finished, unfortunately, I just left the examples in a pile in my weaving studio, so I built a "pathway" room. I could hardly move in there, that is what makes me feel like I did not do as much as I should and the room is still overflowing with things that need to be put away.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Classes finished in mid November, although I still maintained studio hours three days a week, and I started the holiday season. We managed to get my mom to see the lights in the gardens at Thanksgiving Point and we had a great time with her. Then we had her staying at our house for Christmas eve. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I had fun bringing out my Christmas decorations and we bought a new lighted tree to put up. (Last year I did not even put up a tree.) This one was easy to put up and I prefer a man-made tree instead of a real one. I miss the great smell of the real one, but I am not good at keeping them watered and I worry about fires. I like to leave my decorations up until the 12th day of Christmas, so that makes a long time for a real tree.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I have been getting some weaving done for commission, and trying to learn about Crackle weaving. I have kept the rigid heddle loom warped, at least one has had a piece on and sometimes both of them. That is part of my problem, too many projects on too many looms. Right now I have yardage on my big Mac, an old workshop piece on the baby Mac, scarves and shawls on the Baby Wolf, a rug on the studio Mac and a towel warp in Crackle to experiment with on the studio HD. Then I have the pick-up scarf on the Cricket RH and I just put on a towel warp on the Flip RH. Is that all the looms I am bouncing around? Too many projects to think about and I am making myself a little scatter-brained. I'm not even counting the non-weaving projects.</span><br />
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Deannahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05099945186873708027noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2504202113908405009.post-25167259137583891322016-09-25T16:30:00.000-07:002016-09-25T16:30:04.825-07:00The Ups and Downs of September<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This month has been a roller coaster ride. I finished my classes for a couple of weeks and had some time to enjoy family during the first of the month. My sister's son got married and I had fun with her grand-kids and seeing family.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">As I do not have grand-kids, I love to see my siblings grand-kids!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">A couple of days after the wedding, our family got to fly out to Southern California for a few days of fun and more family. I do not get to see my Cummings cousins in Southern California very often, so it was a treat to have dinner with them and visit for an evening. Before we went to the restaurant, Dustin found a great picture opportunity and I took some pictures of the Point Vincente Lighthouse.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I can't wait to see what my son is able to do with his pictures, but I got some pretty good memories on mine.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">We got to go to the Getty Malibu and I really enjoyed walking around and looking at the old Roman and Etruscan items. It reminded me of the museums and places that we visited in Southern France last year. Do you think I can use this design and make a color and weave pattern?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">We also did the usual tourist things, we went to Disneyland...after the day we were exhausted and decided that we do not need to do that again soon.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">He said it was a requirement...everyone has to ride on "It's a Small World"!</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">We also did Hollywood and Vine, the wax museum, Ripley's, and Medieval times.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Medieval times is a dinner (without eating utensils, and when we were served he said dinner tonight was "baby dragon, but it tastes just like chicken") and a show with jousting, beautifully trained horses, sword fights and a falcon demonstration.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I had a lot more fun at the wax museum than I thought I would...we hammed it up with several of the displays.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I got to pose with Moses, and look at the piece I based the weaving on for the film company.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Here you can see <a href="http://num1weaver.blogspot.com/2011/08/weaving-for-film-world.html">my version of the Moses blanket.</a> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It really was enjoyable to spend the time with my family and do some crazy things. Being a tourist is a good thing some times.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The weekend after we got back, my beginning weaving class started and I found out that we may not be able to continue teaching at the site. The Pioneer Craft House (which consists of pottery, jewelry, woodworking and other crafts) that I teach through has been in existence for almost seventy years and for over fifty years we have been on the same site that was purchased for us to use. Times change and now we may have to move. I don't know where we would go and if the classes will continue. My hope is that we can work out a plan with the city, but it has caused some sleepless nights and is really and downer for the end of this month. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I have been weaving some more pinwheel scarves and that always helps my attitude. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I also got a new rigid heddle loom...I know overkill. I wanted to try some double weave on a rigid heddle and mine has some limits using two heddles, so I bought a Schacht Flip. I signed up to do a WAL that is a double weave blanket in cotton and got the kit for the yarn. With our vacation and my disappointment with the Pioneer Craft House, I have not kept up with the group, but last night got it threaded through the second heddle and ready to try weaving double width. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It was quite easy threading the second heddle and putting in the pick-up sticks, so I am afraid that I did something wrong. This evening I will try weaving and see what happens. With luck, I will be ok and able to get two layers, if not...then I try threading again. I know several of the participants had to do that! Wish me luck!</span><br />
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Deannahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05099945186873708027noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2504202113908405009.post-89347513992687123622016-08-31T10:29:00.000-07:002016-08-31T10:29:33.119-07:00Autumn is Coming<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It has been one of those months, I can't get myself to get to anything. We had our family camp-out for four days at the first of the month. I did not even take any pictures. I did enjoy the quiet and just sat and stared a lot. I also took a couple of books to read. I think we were all a little more subdued this year after the emotional fireworks last year. (I thought my siblings had out grown that type of thing.) I think this year we felt we were all walking on egg shells and afraid to cause more stress and tears. But, I think last year's problems are weighing heavy on some of us and that is part of my "down" days.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I did re-sley the warp to get it back to the wide scarf size and I will put on another scarf series.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">These scarves will be for winter sales. I got a notice about another Christmas Sale in the area, this is one that I used to get in all the time. So I think I will apply this year. That means that I will need to have product for both shows and I need to get weaving.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I want to do the pinwheel that I did on the previous series of scarves. These will be the wider and shorter version of scarves that I do. I think I can get about seven out of the yarn I found in my stash. This yarn is a wool and alpaca blend with some nylon and it feels so soft around the neck.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I am putting the white and gray as the warp, then I will have a couple pinwheels with white and gray and a couple with fawn and white...then whatever is left for the rest of the scarves.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I still haven't taken pictures of the commission, I need to get that done as they will be going out in the mail the first of next week. We leave for Southern California next week and I have to ship these out before I leave. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">My classes have finished, and will not start again until after the trip. I need to use this time to get my act together in the house. I wake up with a list of 3 or 4 things to get done that day and end up at night with one or two done...not a good return. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I know I should not be hard on myself, but I am experiencing a "down" time. I'm close to tears a lot, and I don't know why. I need to just sit and write feelings for a while and see what comes out on the page. (That is sometimes helpful to me when I experience these days.) I still have the good thoughts, smile when I see flowers, laugh at the funny things in life. Yeah, I know, I just need to relax and enjoy my life.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I have been working on the rigid heddle scarf. It is the Mermaid scarf from the cover of Handwoven. Mine looks nothing like that one and I call mine the Woodland scarf because of the colors. But it is progressing nicely. I weave on it when I watch Netflix, I'm watching "West Wing" and that show gives me a good feeling.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I love the colors. The warp is a rust colored 3/2 pearl cotton with a tabby of 10/2 rust pearl cotton. The pattern yarn is a slow color change yarn called "Poems". The color right now is brown changing to dark brown. I got tired of the browns, so I pulled out several yards of each color, so it would change faster. Hopefully I will see some green showing up soon.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">When I first started doing this scarf, I wanted to do some leaves in the pattern, but decided against it. Now I may add some leaves to the scarf. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The picked up pattern is a free-form overshot like pattern. I need to pick up warp threads to tie down the front face and the back face of the fabric. In this picture, you can see the color change about in the middle of the picture...going from the lighter brown to the darker brown. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I loved the scarf on the cover, it had a very water like shimmer to the pick up, but with my colors being so different I didn't do the wave look and instead have picked up the background in a very random way. I don't know if that is better or if I like her method better.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We have a family wedding coming up next week and there is lots of things going on about that. I need to get my Mom down here to the ceremony and have arranged for a different sister to drive her home that night. I will also have her come over to my house between events so that she can rest some. This is my younger sister's last child and so she is very involved in the planning and such.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I hope that I can get more done in my house, get ready for the trip, wind a warp and take pictures of the finished items that I just made...Is that too much to ask?</span><br />
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Deannahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05099945186873708027noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2504202113908405009.post-25296704286982126122016-08-14T22:07:00.001-07:002016-08-14T22:07:07.312-07:00End of the Dummy warp...or is it?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The knots came up over the back beam on the last of the scarf warps...I am pleased.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So this is the fourth scarf warp woven. I still have to wash the scarves, label them, hem the rugs, and package everything to ship to the buyer, and I want to finish it before I leave on vacation on Thursday. The chances of doing that are about 50/50 mostly because my "free" day that I thought I could work on them is now taken by a trip to Ogden to help Mom and a trip to Perry to pick up some things for the Pioneer Craft House. There is always something happening and I need to put more time in my weaving if I want to continue doing these commissions.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The month of August has been fun and busy. The end of July had me trying to fit the people into the rug class. The computer did not cut off at the maximum seven students, I ended up with ten students and was worried how we could get that many looms available. I emptied three floor looms, fixed the brake on the AVL and hoped that the new Gilmore did not have any problems (I had not had time to test weave on either of these looms before the class). We are now in the fourth week of the class and it seems to be working well. The students need to weave six different rug samples with six different types of warps and then we will do six different rug finishes. Once I got the looms arranged, the students are busy doing the work and I just need to bounce from one loom to another to make sure the students understand the structure that they are working on.<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">It's fun to have this many looms going at once.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I also went to see a quilt show in Brigham City. The show has some very beautiful art quilts from artists from all around the world.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Beautiful hand applique quilt from Egypt</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">My favorite was a Japanese garden</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We had a great time at the show and although I have not considered doing much quilting, my sister and my Mom both have done some great work. I was just awestruck by the work, the craft and the design on these quilts. There is a lot of new techniques that my sister had not explored when she was doing quilts and it was fun to discuss quilts with her.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">My weaving continued on the dummy warp. I put the first of the long scarve warps on the loom and again was not able to count the warp right.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I put on a hounds-tooth twill and wove two scarves on it. I like the black and white together. The black is a blend of alpaca and silk and has a bit of a sheen to it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I finally got the correct count on the last scarf warp. I wove another two scarves on this warp and I am pleased that the weaving is done for this yarn, but as I said I still have some work to do to finish them.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I used my ply splitting to join the weft yarns in the scarves. It seemed to make a more invisible join.</span><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Here is the last of the bobbin split and tucked.</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">When I get to the end of the bobbin thread, I split the ply and weave one ply in and leave the other ply hanging out. I like it when it runs out in the middle of the piece. I think that is a better place to make the join. On the edge, there may be some weakness in the selvedge where you join.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The new weft end is split and laid into the shed<br /><div style="text-align: left;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The new bobbin thread is split the same and I overlap a ply from the new bobbin over the ply from the old bobbin, the extra two plys just hang out.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I weave up several picks to lock the ends in.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">After cutting, there is no thicker weft showing.</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This method of splitting the ply works great on thicker yarns. You have less density in the overlap section so that there is very little difference in the weave. The finer the yarn the less you would need this technique. There is a point of diminishing returns with this technique. It takes longer to do than to just overlapping the yarns, but it makes me happier to see the results when I do my joins this way, so I continue to do it on some of the thicker yarns.</span><br /><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Now that the last warp is off, I'm looking at the dummy and wondering if there is some more yarns that I can use to make some scarves for me to sale. I would like to do some more pinwheel designs. Once the rugs are hemmed, I can look for some yarn.</span><br />
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