Snow days
Snow white outdoors, rainbow dyepots indoors.
merino
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Coastline
Coastline scarves have been pressed, packed and sent off to Tea Green.
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huck lace draft
The creative redhead who blogs at Handcrafted with Altitude asks whether I will share the draft I used for the crinkly merino/silk scarf in huck lace. The answer is yes, certainly. I planned a threading on eight shafts — and threaded what I planned — but after sampling I ended up using a very simple…
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nicely crinkly
Here is the merino-silk combination straight off the loom and looking rather stunned, as they often do. I treated it the same way as the sample. First I washed it ever so gently in the sink, using Ecover’s “Delicate” as I usually do. Then I rinsed it and squeezed out the excess water. And then…
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new toys!
Well, new books. Books are Serious so really shouldn’t be denoted toys no matter how many you have, right? I have just had the pleasure of adding these to my LibraryThing collection: That’s volume 2 of Peggy Osterkamp’s New Guide to Weaving and Marg Coe’s new book Fit 2 Be Tied. I’m especially excited about…
