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The Hilltop Fibreworker: March 2013
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Scribble Scarf for the Rigid Heddle. Friday, 8 March 2013. Dye the Colour Wheel. Hobbes, being a Helpy Helper! I had set out spreadsheets with the calculations all taken care of. Everyone took a sheet and after a quick demonstration started measuring and stirring. We spun the rinsed skeins out really well in a salad spinner, but getting them dry was a challenge until a student realized we have fans in the Resource Centre. We had already started hanging them on the coat rack, but when we added the fan...
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The Hilltop Fibreworker: May 2015
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Scribble Scarf for the Rigid Heddle. Saturday, 16 May 2015. By a pick up stick. For each row of the graph you pick up a pair of pattern threads for each filled in pattern square from behind the heddles. For this blanket I used 4/8 cotton for the warp threaded at 10dpi in 2 10 dpi heddles on my 32" Ashford RH loom. 3 Both heddles down for tabby with 2/8 navy. 4 Back heddle (y) up, front heddle down, stick forward to raise the pattern threads with 8/8 grey. 5 Both heddles up for tabby with 2/8 navy. 8 Fron...
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The Hilltop Fibreworker: Plain Weave Frivolities Acadian Style with Judith
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Scribble Scarf for the Rigid Heddle. Saturday, 18 April 2015. Plain Weave Frivolities Acadian Style with Judith. Today was the Plain Weave workshop with Judith Rygiel. Judith has a doctorate in history and did a major post doc study of Acadian Textiles several years ago. This led her to studying Cajun textiles in Louisiana which she is still working on. Today she had us try several traditional techniques based on simple plain weave. I used my Rigid Heddle loom of course! Here are my samples from today:.
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The Hilltop Fibreworker: January 2013
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Scribble Scarf for the Rigid Heddle. Tuesday, 1 January 2013. My Word is "Do". So, some of my doings for today:. 1 Write that little report for Mandy. Really, it took all of 10min, why did I push it off for so long? And it made her so happy. Doing is good. There was royal icing "cement" in my poor mixer and crushed candy cane all over Ash's favourite stool. The gingerbread house itself experienced some kind of natural disaster:. What's your word for this year? Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Speech/Language ...
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The Hilltop Fibreworker: Dyed Fibre Should be WYSIWYG - Part 2
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Scribble Scarf for the Rigid Heddle. Thursday, 8 August 2013. Dyed Fibre Should be WYSIWYG - Part 2. Lets look at how these are different from the commercial roving I sampled in the last post. This is "Old Country". At the top of the picture is the "long stripe" roving. Each stripe is about 2 feet long. At the bottom is a sample of the fibre, it's about 4" long. In the middle is the short stripe. Each short stripe is about 6" long. Here's what they look like lightly twisted together:. Ep 025: Janine Bajus.
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The Hilltop Fibreworker: Here be Elephants
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Scribble Scarf for the Rigid Heddle. Saturday, 16 May 2015. By a pick up stick. For each row of the graph you pick up a pair of pattern threads for each filled in pattern square from behind the heddles. For this blanket I used 4/8 cotton for the warp threaded at 10dpi in 2 10 dpi heddles on my 32" Ashford RH loom. 3 Both heddles down for tabby with 2/8 navy. 4 Back heddle (y) up, front heddle down, stick forward to raise the pattern threads with 8/8 grey. 5 Both heddles up for tabby with 2/8 navy. 8 Fron...
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The Hilltop Fibreworker: Gallery
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Scribble Scarf for the Rigid Heddle. Here are examples of the things I sell at shows:. Learn to Spin Kit (back view). Learn to Spin Kit (front view). Beehive Handspun Yarn with Example Swatch (and Cat ear). This was my booth at Twist in Aug 2013:. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Hilltop Fibreworker on Etsy. View my complete profile. A Venture into Pattern Writing. Magische Maschen - Making of . Schönen 2. Advent! Have a wonderful 2nd Advent weekend! Giveaway Winner and Some Photos. Ep 025: Janine Bajus.
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The Hilltop Fibreworker: July 2012
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Scribble Scarf for the Rigid Heddle. Saturday, 21 July 2012. My Fibre Room is well supervised and well stocked with assistants. The other day I was trying to take some pictures so I could list more Fractals on Etsy. I thought the coast was clear, but the Assistants are ever vigilant:. Here is Ash testing for loft. He has his "fierce face" on, but I don't know if that's because the fibre isn't cushy enough for his liking or that he'd rather there weren't evidence that he's really a softie. That's my Hitch...
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The Hilltop Fibreworker: April 2015
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Scribble Scarf for the Rigid Heddle. Saturday, 18 April 2015. Plain Weave Frivolities Acadian Style with Judith. Today was the Plain Weave workshop with Judith Rygiel. Judith has a doctorate in history and did a major post doc study of Acadian Textiles several years ago. This led her to studying Cajun textiles in Louisiana which she is still working on. Today she had us try several traditional techniques based on simple plain weave. I used my Rigid Heddle loom of course! Here are my samples from today:.
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The Hilltop Fibreworker: Dyed Fibre Should be WYSIWYG Too - Part 1
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Scribble Scarf for the Rigid Heddle. Tuesday, 6 August 2013. Dyed Fibre Should be WYSIWYG Too - Part 1. Except that it very often isn't. And I often have beginning spinners come to me saying "What did I do wrong? It doesn't look anything like the roving." Truth is they did nothing wrong. Some dyed fibre can't be made into yarn that looks anything like the original fibre. My friend, OVFA. They are going to go grey and possibly muddy. Here's some samples spun up to about fingering weight:. 2 The roving spl...
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