TEXTILLIAN STUDIOS

Month: January 2011

  • Being Boring

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    Reference So, when I last talked about the rugs I am weaving, this is how they looked. I wove in a few more strips since then and decided that I did not like the results. It was boring me to tears. Unlike the warp-face rugs that I had woven before, the weft strips were going…

  • Lucas with the Lid Off

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    Reference Knitting is still going on here, especially with my weaving undergoing a re-group. More on that in the next post. My first new project of 2011 turns out to be my first completed project of 2011. This is Elizabeth Zimmermann’s Maltese Fisherman’s Hat from Knitters Almanac. I used two strands of Berroco’s Ultra Alpaca…

  • Strip

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    Reference So, what was I doing New Year’s Eve? Well, during the day I was cutting strips with my rag cutter. I dug it out so that I could cut up the eight yards of fabric that I am using as the weft to weave the rugs that were being put on the big loom…