Thursday, September 13, 2012

Warping the next project, felt slippers, and de-stashing

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Now that the kids are back in school and things are settling down during the days, I've started my next weaving project. If you rememb...
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Monday, August 27, 2012

Hand painted silk belly dance veils

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I've been experimenting with painting big pieces of silk, for use as belly dance veils. These have been 45" x 108". The bla...
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Thursday, August 9, 2012

Rock Doodles and silk painting

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Ok, this was more relaxing and more fun that it ought to have been. A smooth river rock + a Sharpie + some spray clear coat = a Rock Doodl...
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Wednesday, August 1, 2012

Watching the scarf dry: salt method on hand dyed silk scarves

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I've been painting silk scarves for the past few weeks now. First I got an order for 20 grey scarves. I steamed those yesterday, and wil...
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Wednesday, July 18, 2012

Silk prep and drop spindles

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There. My least favorite part of silk painting is done: the initial prep work. After several hours standing at the ironing board, I now hav...
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Saturday, July 14, 2012

The finished ruana

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I've been working on making a hand painted and hand woven cotton ruana. If you look back a few posts, you'll see the process that I ...
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Friday, July 13, 2012

Warping the loom

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I've just about got the loom warped up and ready to go. Yesterday I put each thread through the reed, to spread it evenly on the loom. ...
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