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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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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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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

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Summer School Sampler

Finally (I hope) here’s something about the weaving that I’ve been doing with the remains of the warp from the Summer School. Here’s one of the more interesting weave structures  from the echo twill threading. Towards the end of the … Continue reading

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After the Summer School

The best laid plans ….. Summer School was so intense, then family problems came along (my Mum is ill) and the blog never happened. So, belatedly, here’s a summer school summary: The first challenge was warping the table loom ready … Continue reading

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