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Ruth's weaving projects: January 2015
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All-in-one-piece weaving projects done with make-it-up-as-I-go-along methods. Sunday, 11 January 2015. Tapestry robin - new and improved. I needed to blend and spin a little bit more of the orange yarn from the dyed combed tops (Shown here with the other colours: white shropshire, and brown and tawny-grey ryeland). I learned a lot from the first robin and used the same pattern to re-create it. The improvements I included were a better formed eye opening, tiny shaping changes, and simplified edges.
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Ruth's weaving projects: Sparrow finished
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All-in-one-piece weaving projects done with make-it-up-as-I-go-along methods. Wednesday, 29 April 2015. To stiffen the tail I made a loop of wire the same shape as the perimeter of the tail feathers. I laid it on the underside of the tail and anchored the ends on the last few stitches of the plastic "spine" inside the back. I attached the wire by. Completely covering it with whip stitches using the light coloured wool. 5 May 2015 at 13:40. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Sparrow weaving off the loom.
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Ruth's weaving projects: Sparrow weaving off the loom
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All-in-one-piece weaving projects done with make-it-up-as-I-go-along methods. Friday, 24 April 2015. Sparrow weaving off the loom. To finish the lower edges of the wings I did a row of soumack stitch. Then I wove the tail and finally the plain light colour. I reinforced the edges with a soumack stitch over the last strand of weft. With contrasting thread I carefully marked some strategic matching points on the edges of the two pieces. Then I turned the weaving over and clipped the holding threads.
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Ruth's weaving projects: January 2014
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All-in-one-piece weaving projects done with make-it-up-as-I-go-along methods. Friday, 24 January 2014. Turquoise hand bag - part 1. I needed a portable longer-term weaving project for two months away from home. I wanted it without pins so that I could work on it during airplane travel. It needed to incorporate colour-and-weave and be woven all-in-one-piece. I dug through my yarn stash for a set of colours. A favourite criss-cross colour-and-weave design. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom).
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Ruth's weaving projects: Weaving the sparrow's head and wings
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All-in-one-piece weaving projects done with make-it-up-as-I-go-along methods. Tuesday, 14 April 2015. Weaving the sparrow's head and wings. The breast of the sparrow is flat and all one colour so I wove it first to get used to tapestry weaving after not doing it for a while. I did a careful job of the perimeter of the piece, twining the two outer row together. I hope the firmer edge will be easier to stitch to the upper part of the bird when I assemble it. 18 April 2015 at 12:40. Very special ;-).
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Ruth's weaving projects: February 2014
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All-in-one-piece weaving projects done with make-it-up-as-I-go-along methods. Tuesday, 18 February 2014. Lately I been doing Bible study in colour, following a few themes in Ephesians and painting and writing about what I've learned. I sketched how all these colours could go together in a wavy composition. Then I got inspired to try a tiny tapestry based on the sketch. I slipped the tube over a chunk of cardboard and taped the bottom flat. I usually use just cardboard for my weaving form, but for thi...
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Ruth's weaving projects: November 2013
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All-in-one-piece weaving projects done with make-it-up-as-I-go-along methods. Saturday, 16 November 2013. Colour and Weave final projects. All those colours were so much fun to spin! See the spinning post. Here are my two favourite projects of the "wild flower meadow" series. The zipped bag has the pattern dl in the warp. I used the. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). HOW TO MAKE plaited paper baskets. Colour and Weave final projects. Simple template. Powered by Blogger.
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Ruth's weaving projects: August 2013
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All-in-one-piece weaving projects done with make-it-up-as-I-go-along methods. Friday, 23 August 2013. Colour and Weave experiments (phase 1). This summer I've been playing with Colour and Weave. The starting point was a gamp from The Structure of Weaving. Once I understood this pattern, I charted a triple version of it for a future weaving. (TRIPLE: warp: 2 darks 1 light 1 dark 1 light 1 dark 1 light, weft: the same as warp). Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). HOW TO MAKE plaited paper baskets.
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Ruth's weaving projects: March 2014
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All-in-one-piece weaving projects done with make-it-up-as-I-go-along methods. Friday, 28 March 2014. Tapestry embedded in even weave. Years ago at a college weaving class I described to the instructor that I would make an even-weave scarf with a tapestry section near each end. She discouraged me from that combination because the two structures are incompatible. I compromised by doing an embroidered design on that scarf, but I never really gave up on the idea of combining the two structures in one piece.
