06 Friday Jul 2018
Posted in Show-and-tell, Weaving, Yarn and Fiber
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clothing, colourways, cotton, crafts, handwoven, inspiration, weaving drafts, yarn
It’s taken me a long time to write this post, simply because the project never seemed to be quite done. It still isn’t – but now it’s on hold until I make it round to that end of the circle.
15 Friday Dec 2017
Posted in Chit Chat, Painting, Weaving, Yarn and Fiber
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…or are you all too busy preparing for the holidays to visit Blogland? As for me I think I’ve got my back under control once more, my sleep cycle has readjusted to waking up at 6 without an alarm. Now I just have to shed the habit of dillydallying about and use my time more efficiently while I have it. No cookie baking or hanging of ornaments, I just want to do my thing.
03 Thursday Aug 2017
Posted in Books & reading, Chit Chat, Garden, Painting, Weaving, Yarn and Fiber
31 Wednesday May 2017
Posted in Painting, Weaving, Yarn and Fiber
29 Monday May 2017
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“Hello, my name is Pia and I like to make weird things.”
I had completely forgotten this experiment that I did after the “dishtowel shawl“. But I guess it makes an excellent filler post while I’m busy with the 21 day painting challenge.
06 Thursday Apr 2017
Posted in Chit Chat, Show-and-tell, Weaving, Yarn and Fiber
Everything went wrong that week. E v e r y t h i n g. You say you want the short version? A list, then – or better yet, why don’t we move along as if nothing has happened and just focus on the huck instead.
I have taken a perverse liking to reconstructing weave drafts from photos of interesting fabrics that I come across online. Some are no doubt the work of an individual designer and not prudent to be shared, others are most likely old and traditional, sitting in various books, a variation on a technique which nobody owns.
13 Monday Mar 2017
Posted in Chit Chat, Critters, Farm Life, Weaving, Yarn and Fiber
As my posts are dwindling to once a month and my stats to zero, I am however still hobbling along behind the scenes, doing bits and bobs and even finishing stuff on occasion. This is one of my recent projects, which I hope will eventually help alleviate my headaches.
13 Monday Feb 2017
Posted in Chit Chat, Sewing, Weaving, Yarn and Fiber
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As an addendum to my weaving and clothing plans I have questions for all of you:
Which size cushions do you like and why?
Which closure do you prefer?
(NOT by me)
If *I* can’t get handwoven cushions from my fabrics, perhaps somebody else would like to! Because there are bound to be leftovers, and I could certainly use some pocket money.
08 Wednesday Feb 2017
Posted in Chit Chat, Sewing, Weaving, Yarn and Fiber
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Today’s post is related to the previous one. As before I still struggle with my taste for colour, and every time I think I’ve developed a colourscheme of just 3-4 shades, I keep finding a few extras that would also go well. Some of them overlap into the next group, others are completely different. From buddhist monks’ robes to pale greens and blues, from intricate patterns to solids. My brain overloads completely with colours from nature all the time, any season. I could make swatches and sketches as a full time job and never get beyond that.
03 Friday Feb 2017
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For the last couple of months I’ve spent a lot of time weaving on the computer. Making endless variations of patterns for all 12 shafts, exploring how to enlarge them (rather than just choose a thicker yarn), working from scratch or from downloaded files.
But I wanted to see what it looked like with yarn rather than pixels, so I made a narrow wool warp and planned to do maybe 50 cm of each draft to have a bit of fabric for a sample book and perhaps sew some pincusions or whatever. I should have doubled it in length however because of course I continued learning and developing after I had begun weaving, so after a while my samples became 30, then 25 cm long and as I got to the part where I needed to cut and rethread after each draft as well as running out of yarn, even shorter. Threading errors began to appear because I hurried through, etc. etc.
