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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Fame at last :-)

Cheshire Life published their interview with me in the November 2011 issue and it’s online now at: http://cheshire.greatbritishlife.co.uk/article/the-jodrell-bank-astronomer-and-scientist-who-also-loves-weaving-her-own-rugs-37334/ Thank you Cheshire Life, Emma and Kirsty! And of course “Made by Hands of Britain” who suggested the piece to Cheshire Life. … Continue reading

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