I was a bit at a loss for what to post about for the 12th day of Christmas, when Jared suggested I post about his homemade gift. It’s not a towel – it’s not even made of yarn – but it’s pretty special all the same. Jared and I certainly can read Inuktitut syllabics, but … More TTofC: Twelve Pages of Collects
OK, that’s a stretch, but it sure felt like a lot of finishing. I thought I’d take today to talk a little bit about finishing the Twelve Fourteen Towels of Christmas. Once I finished weaving off the last towel, I had an impressive stack of unfinished weaves stacked in a corner of the counter. I … More TTofC: Eleven Miles of Finishing
Surprise! This bit of Christmas knitting is not a towel at all, but a scarf. After completing the 201 class, I said to myself, I’m on a roll! Why stop? So I started Liz Gipson’s 301 class on working with pick up sticks. The 301 class introduces you to weaving with a pickup stitck, which … More TTofC: Ten Pickup Patterns
Having reflected on what 2019 brought, what am I hoping for during a new year? A new decade? Not goals or aspirations, per se, but starting points: hopes, dreams, and prayers. I made a list of “make 9s” in my journal, and almost immediately trashed it. It made me hyperventilate a little. There’s no way … More Step into 2020
What I neglected to mention yesterday is that the log cabin pattern is part of a family of patterns called “color and weave.” Whenever you use changing colors in the warp and weft together to make a pattern, that’s color and weave. I think it has to be plain weave? I’m not the expert here. … More TTofC: Eight Pairs of Patterns
Log Cabin is a stunning example of how a bafflingly complex-looking pattern can be made in plain weaving, just by arranging colors. Last year I figured out, just by messing around with my daughters’ loop loom, that you can make stripes by alternating colors in both warp and weft. In other words, if every other … More TTofC: Seven Log Cabin Stripes
Last December I wrote about my accomplishments for the year gone by, and my hopes for 2019. It was very interesting to read through and see what I thought would happen, and compare it to the reality. I. Intentions That Came True… Sort Of A. The Year of the Sweater I declared 2019 to be … More How 2019 Went
Holidayed is a word. Holiday can be a verb, therefore it can have a past tense: “we holidayed in France.” I’m only slightly extending the semantic range by using it as a past participle, as in “I have been holidayed.” Homemaking I’ve told you about our celebrations. And I’ve already written about the way Advent … More December Check-In: Holidayed
Plaid was on my bucket list. I think plaids are fantastic. They make me wish I was even slightly Scottish. So I was pretty excited to try them in Liz Gipson’s Colorwork class. First, the warping. The threading was complex, but in her videos Liz walks you through every step of the process, and gives … More TTofC: Four-coloured Plaid
The next set of towels I made had three aspects of learning, two to do with colour and one with technique. I started by learning the indirect method of warping. I won’t go into too much detail, but suffice it to say it’s a different way of winding the warp – the long yarns that … More TTofC: Three Hand-dyed Wefts
Osborn Fiber Studio 