Cloth
Today I have an unexpected slice of time to myself and I am under the weather. How weird to spend and morning dozing in bed! Anyway I’m up now, with only a short time until…
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Fossil Hunting
In a brief moment between winter ailments (cough cough, sniff sniff) this weekend we went on a bushwalk / fossil hunt / mushroom spotting adventure. I regularly walk this track on…
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In Context
Photo by Valeri Pain The rug was completed in time for the submission cut off for the Handweavers, Spinners and Dyer’s Guild of Tasmania exhibition at Design Tasmania in…
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Getting going
I have been ignoring my loom – the rug was growing too slowly so I stopped weaving on it. Not exactly logical! A decision to enter it into the guild exhibition and the realisation…
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A Rag Rug
I have finished the rag rug 😀 Starting Notes I had planned to make a taupe and white rug but I wasn’t happy with the way the taupe fabric frayed, even when cut with a rotary…
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Persistence and Potential
Some time in the middle of 2013, probably about the time of my last post, Ada suddenly stopped having a day time nap. The effect on me being the lack of space to think and read…
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As Planned - Some Spinning
I have been glued to my spinning wheel this week and the grey fleece (my major project) is nearing the end. The little sample of white merino is finished, it was difficult to spin…
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I'll Be Spinning
I watch the Tour de France every year (even though this doping stuff pisses me off and tests my patience) and this year I’ll also be participating in the Tour de FLEECE at the…
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Grapevine Tea Towels
Some ‘finished’ photos: I used a draft called 8 Thread Herringbone from A Handweaver’s Pattern Book by Marguerite P. Davison. I used this draft on the little twill tape I made a…
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Done!
Phew! I am sooooo glad that I’ve finished this warp, the problems at the start made it feel like the project was dragging on a little but too long. The problems I was having did…
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Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds
I want to mark here, the death of my cat Lucy at 16 years of age. I was still at university when I went to the South Hobart Cats Home with my flatmates to pick out a kitten. I…
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