Author Archives: spindizzy
Cambridge Teatowel – update
Quick Update: I’ve now woven 3 towels on a first warp, and have put on a second warp and am ploughing through another 6. Each one is different 🙂 My edges haven’t been brilliant and none of my temples will fit … Continue reading
The Cambridge Tea-towel – A detective story
We visited Cambridge relatives last weekend and While I was there I noticed a really good tea-towel, neatly washed and pressed and in use to protect an appointments book from muddy cat prints. (It’s in a nice sunny sitting place). … Continue reading
The start of new things
Shortly after the old loom left, and well before I was prepared for it, someone mentioned that they had my dream replacement loom for sale. After a flurry of activity, we drove to the edge of Scotland in a small … Continue reading
End of things, or Gladstone bag part 3
The first Gladstone bag is sort of done. The fabric was marvellous, I’m really pleased with it. The bag was pretty disastrous. At the first attempt, I slavishly followed the pattern (I should have engaged the brain a little more.) … Continue reading
Fabric for a Gladstone Bag… Part the Second
Followup to the last post on sampling for fabric for a bag …. weaving is underway. Meanwhile, over the last few months I have been trying my sewing skills on some upcycled bits( a wool skirt length from a … Continue reading
Fabric for a Gladstone Bag
This is a project that has been lurking with intent for more than a year now, since I fell for the Gladstone Bag in “Carry me” . At the beginning of the year, I got all the bag hardware from … Continue reading
An Alpaca Throw
At the end of last year, a colleague at work kindly offered me some fleece from his 3 alpacas. I said that I’d love to have one … maybe white please, and ended up with a car full. I think … Continue reading
The Biggest Rug Ever!
Last month I opened my garage aka studio in the Cheshire Open Studios Event. During the open studio, a visitor asked about a bigger rug, how large a rug could I weave? The loom has a max weaving width … Continue reading
Art Yarn Scarf
What to do with those skeins of “Art Yarn” After all those workshops and articles, you end up with a collection of small skeins of scrumptious handspun yarn carefully stored away, looking for a project. Here’s superfine merino and silk, … Continue reading
Olympic Cushions for Woolsack
I have finally and belately got to work on my Woolsack Cushions. The Woolsack project at http://www.facebook.com/groups/woolsack2012/ aims to: … “make a cushion from British Wool as a personal gift for each athlete competing in the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic … Continue reading