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Tag Archives: tools

Paraphernalia

20 Monday Aug 2018

Posted by Pia in Painting, Show-and-tell

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crafts, creativity, DIY, inspiration, papermaking, tools

Didn’t get ready today to show you a full version of my pigment experiment as planned, as I’ve had other things to attend to. So I thought I’d show you my latest finding, a book press which I thought could help me get water out of new paper sheets, rather than stacking cinderblocks on the floor. One way of tackling multiple projects could be doing so as efficiently as possible!

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Loom extension

05 Monday Dec 2016

Posted by Pia in Show-and-tell, Weaving, Yarn and Fiber

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cotton, crafts, DIY, equipment, home, loom, studio, tools, weave drafts, woven

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I’ve long wanted a few more pattern options on my Lervad no. 9 – not as much since I got the Glimåkra, but still. 8 shafts would require a lot of remodelling (for instance I would have loved to extend all the lamms), so I settled for 6. That means I can work with supplemental warps in designs, at least 3 variations of waffle weave, turned 2/1 twill blocks just to mention a few of the ideas I’ve had over the years.

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Warped stretcher bars

10 Monday Oct 2016

Posted by Pia in Chit Chat, Show-and-tell, Tutorial

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canvas, crafts, creativity, DIY, equipment, Painting, solution, tools

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Normally they say that if a canvas won’t hang flat against the wall and wedges don’t solve the problem, restretch. If the frame itself is warped, get another.

So what do you do if you are “poor” and kept a large bundle of previously used bars in your barn for better times, and, when assembled anew, some of them warp? Continue reading →

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A score and a start

02 Friday Sep 2016

Posted by Pia in Chit Chat, Yarn and Fiber

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equipment, tools, video, yarn

Thrift shop find: Hand mangle. Lacking its roller, as they often do, because people have used them for wall decorations. So I need to find a longish dowel or pipe at least 5 cm (2″) in diameter to be able to try it out, but for a couple of bucks I thought I just had to get it. And a horse! I don’t know if it’s old or just a copy either, but it’s the first time I see one out of a museum.

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At the knick knack shop

28 Sunday Aug 2016

Posted by Pia in Chit Chat

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crafts, tools

Daft me didn’t even consider making this a blog post until the day after, so I won’t be showing you any pix from the actual shop of all the things I didn’t buy.

We have in DK a chain of shops that are a little nicer than your average dollar store with plastic and glitter doodads. They specialize in baskets, glassware, notebooks, well, lots of things, but their displays are just cosier with wooden crates and things arranged nicely. They want to look more like an old fashioned shop with candy in glass jars and brown paper bags. Continue reading →

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Prepping pages

15 Monday Aug 2016

Posted by Pia in Chit Chat, Painting, Show-and-tell

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collage, colour, crafts, creativity, doodle, draw, Painting, slideshow, tools

Sarah generously offered to send me all of her leftover craft paints, when I complained about the “good” acrylics being too sticky for books, so I’ve been testing them a bit to see how that works.

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DIY wool picker

02 Tuesday Jun 2015

Posted by Pia in Spinning, Yarn and Fiber

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crafts, DIY, dorset, equipment, fiber prep, tools, woad, wool

While chugging away at my suffolk/dorset roving, I was thinking of the many plant dyed kilos of ditto upstairs, which has to be fluffed and handpicked to loosen most of the tiny plant particles embedded, before it can be carded into batts/rolags. And decided I needed help with that. If you don’t make that effort, the VM just stays in there or on the drumcarder, forever polluting the next fibers and the next.

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Anything new?

14 Saturday Mar 2015

Posted by Pia in Chit Chat, Garden, Weaving, Yarn and Fiber

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determination, equipment, loom, spring, tools, weather, wool

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Well, I singlehandedly (why am I so stubbornly insisting on wrecking myself?) dismembered our couch, flipped the two sides again since we haven’t yet found a new one with two short ends, and rearranged things to accomodate the tapestry loom, which was rendered useless in the loom room after the beast moved in. My painting station is now a bit less attractive than before, but since the living room is my stoodio more than anything else, it’ll never be pretty anyway. Mind you, before I started attempting to paint again, and spinning, only the dogs ever used the room and the sofa.

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Breaking

26 Thursday Feb 2015

Posted by Pia in Chit Chat, Garden, Weaving, Yarn and Fiber

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equipment, flowers, health, loom, seasons, spring, tools, weather

..in the new loom, the reign of cold and dark, possibly my back!

This is what my fix for not having a second warp beam looks like (the clamps are temporary – I broke the cordless drill. They’re all my personal clamps btw, the big iron ones I inherited from my grandad).

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A year of weaving

29 Thursday Jan 2015

Posted by Pia in Chit Chat, Thoughts, Weaving, Yarn and Fiber

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crafts, creativity, equipment, fibromyalgia, inner conviction, intention, life, loom, OLAD, tools

bluecowl4One year ago I aquired my first rigid heddle loom. Just to sate my curiosity, much like 3 years earlier when I made my own drop spindle to investigate whether one could really make yarn on a stick. Nothing serious like, just testing, yeah? And although I upgraded the stick to a spinning wheel three months later, I was pretty certain this loom would last me for a long time, getting my variation from colour play mostly. After all, I do still have the same and only wheel with no wish to upgrade, it does what I want.

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