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Portia's Cloth: Sheep Show 2016

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Tuesday, 19 July 2016. Here I am, back after a lengthy break, no dramas, it's just that time of the year when everything has to be kept under wraps. I sent 4 scarves to the Geelong scarf festival, but won't know what is happening with them until later in the year unless I make a trip there. I was very happy with these waves in a hand spun wool variegated yarn and fine wool weft in advancing twill. And the third version of the snakeskin, this time in coral. I'd seen a Burda. And finished up with this.

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Portia's Cloth: December 2014

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Tuesday, 30 December 2014. Christmas tea towels 2014. I’ve done a little new weaving during the break but wanted to write about this year’s Christmas tea towels first. A few years ago I started making a run of tea towels for gifts and they seem to be a success because my friends now ask hopefully ‘will there be tea towels this year? I ended up with 14 towels, all a bit different, some with squares, some with rectangles and almost all with different colour combinations for the tabby and pattern weft.

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Portia's Cloth: A little weaving and a little gardening

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Monday, 28 November 2016. A little weaving and a little gardening. And showing more detail here. However it’s the last market for the year next Sunday, so I have reluctantly returned to the tea towels. I managed to do the first 3 with small squares. But I’ve moved on the other designs with longer blocks. And fewer colour changes. Earlier this year I replanted the garden bed at the top of my drive and included some kangaroo paws, called that, because they look like, you guessed it, kangaroo paws. Falling ...

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Portia's Cloth: Something new – or maybe very old

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Monday, 17 October 2016. Something new – or maybe very old. When I bought my Toika loom in 2006 in the last year of my weaving certificate course, it was advertised as having a a draw loom attachment. Sure enough it had 4 levers along the front of the castle and a couple of brackets on either side, just one lever and one bracket shown here. There were no instructions and despite emailing Toika and looking at various books, magazines and websites I could not find any explanations or anything similar.

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Portia's Cloth: January 2014

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Monday, 20 January 2014. What sort of warp do you choose when the forecast is between 39ºC and 44ºC, that’s 102ºF to 111ºF if you’re still working in Fahrenheit, for the next 4 days? Were very cool. A local weaver who’s down-sizing had a studio sale late last year and something that moved from her stash to mine were a few cones of Cool Wool yarn, probably from the 1980s. I was inspired by a curtain in VÄV. Saturday, 11 January 2014. A Place to Start. Beautiful and intelligent. The only cloth she woul...

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Portia's Cloth: September 2014

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Saturday, 13 September 2014. Not sure where the time went. So here they are, 2 were in a wool/acrylic/ viscose mix mostly green but with small amounts of lots of other colours, one of these went straight to my scarf collection. One was a plain violet 70/30 wool/soy fibre mix. The next was the same yarn but I was able to use up the remains of a few skeins in related colours. The last was a pure wool roving type yarn with long colour repeats. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). View my complete profile. It’s...

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Portia's Cloth: March 2014

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Saturday, 8 March 2014. A little bit of DIY. When I found myself with 2 naked looms last week, I knew it was time for a couple of do-it-yourself projects before I wound on the next warp. I went to the local hardware barn and bought 2.4m/8 ft of 30 x 30 mm quarter round dowel with a flat edge,. Some bolts and wing nuts, a packet of saddle clips(enough for 2 projects) and some short screws, short enough for the jobs I had in mind. Altogether it cost $24.48. It would have been nice to line them up with a fu...

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Portia's Cloth: May 2014

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Monday, 12 May 2014. Sometimes I think the loom is smarter than I am. And I had the delusion that I would just finish the 4. I didn’t quite meet my aim of making 15 different tea towels but I did manage 14 tea towels and a bread cloth before I ran out of warp. Here are towels 6 to 14 and the bread cloth:. 6 had elongated crosses,. 7 just stripes,. 8 long rectangles,. 9 medium rectangles with squares within squares,. 10 squares within squares alternating with plain log cabin squares,. Ixchel Angora Bunny ...