Time and a Good Book
Lately I have spent a block of time in the studio, and progress has been made.
The place was a cat-fight. Mess everywhere, boxes unpacked and strewn, suitcase still packed from SOAR (no, not clothes, workshop stuff), and every surface covered.
Given time and a good book on tape (The Thirteenth Tale, by Diane Setterfield, well-read, and an engrossing story), I'm getting through the detritus, and warping looms:
(and beginning to weave the fabric)
Tieing heddles on the upright loom (see previous post):
(Charleen: they are tied from a continuous strand, not individual heddles like an inkle loom)
and setting up an experiment in pick-up weaving:
Also, there has been some spinning:
silk, white, but soon to be (heh) red, because Claudia will not hand over the red Romney, harumph.
Order is beginning to prevail, surfaces have resurfaced, the floor is visible, navigating no longer requires leaps. Thanks to time and a story.
[And thanks to Lindsey!:-)]
The place was a cat-fight. Mess everywhere, boxes unpacked and strewn, suitcase still packed from SOAR (no, not clothes, workshop stuff), and every surface covered.
Given time and a good book on tape (The Thirteenth Tale, by Diane Setterfield, well-read, and an engrossing story), I'm getting through the detritus, and warping looms:
(and beginning to weave the fabric)
Tieing heddles on the upright loom (see previous post):
(Charleen: they are tied from a continuous strand, not individual heddles like an inkle loom)
and setting up an experiment in pick-up weaving:
Also, there has been some spinning:
silk, white, but soon to be (heh) red, because Claudia will not hand over the red Romney, harumph.
Order is beginning to prevail, surfaces have resurfaced, the floor is visible, navigating no longer requires leaps. Thanks to time and a story.
[And thanks to Lindsey!:-)]
posted by Sara at 8:13 AM
6 Comments:
Positively brilliant to use bright red heddles on an all white warp! Doesn't a newly straightened up studio get the creative juices going?
Bit by the cleaning bug myself. Glad you are having fun while being so productive. It is nice to see the floor every now and then, just to remember what it looks like.
I just read the thirteenth tale and really enjoyed it. Love that fabric on the loom. Great colors in that.
That pile of silk needs to be bigger.
I liked Thirteenth Tale too.
And there is something so incredibly satisfying about the sight of a new warp and the evenness of those heddles. Everything all lined up nicely, and all's right with the world.
Love your inkling, too. I'm using one of your bookmarks with the book I'm currently reading. :-)
Deanna
Can you come by and organize my craft room? I did ask the man for a yurt this Christmas and he laughed.
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