TEXTILLIAN STUDIOS

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  • Hallelujah!

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    Hallelujah! You no longer have to email me to be able to comment here. Here is what you do: Get to the log in screen, via Comments. If you don’t already have a password and user name, select Register, and you will be asked to supply the user name you want and your email address. The password for…

  • Baby, Baby, Baby (Baby)

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    This post is going to make it sound like I have been obsessed with knitting, which is kind of true, but only for the past couple weeks. It seems that there is a population boom going on, and since my loom that I normally make the baby blankets on is occupied, I am knitting baby…

  • Book Idea! What Not to Knit

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    Yesterday, I was cruising through some knitting books online and I was thinking, “Is wearing a tent really that fashionable nowadays? The recipient is going to receive this sweater, swear how much he loves it, and then, at best, only wear it when the knitter is around. Most people will swim in a sweater like…

  • Maryland Sheep and Wool Festival: the report

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    I was going to try to work this entry to the tune of “My Favorite Things,” but I am no lyricist. It was a great day this past Saturday, as it was the beginning of the Maryland Sheep and Wool Festival. Cue “The Most Wonderful Time of the Year.” The festival was the most crowded…

  • Work in progress: Warp-face wool rug

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    Part of the reason for me to change my website over to a blog was to publicly humiliate myself. How? By highlighting projects that have been stuck in limbo, thus giving me a reason to get my rear in gear and get the dang thing done. This is one of those projects.    Mr. Penney…

  • Sofa shawl

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    At the 2005 MAFA conference, Mr. Penney paid me a visit, as he was just a half hour away from the conference site. This was his first exposure to my world of fiber in such saturation. Fortunately, it did not scare him off. I walked him around the vendor area, answering whatever questions he had…

  • After: Dining room curtains

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    Woohoo! Another item off of Mr. Penney’s list. (Mr. Penney is quite the keeper of lists, which is, admittedly, helpful in getting things done.) Here are the curtains for the dining room, photos courtesy of the better photographer of the two of us:      These are considered relaxed rod pocket curtains. I used the same…

  • The old site

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    Well, that is the end of the posts from the old site. I guess it would be cheating to count those as real posts. In any case, there are still plenty of projects that I never got around to posting on the old site. I just need to remember how I did them! (I am…

  • Warp-face placemats

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    Placemats woven to tryout the techniques learned in a class on warp-face weaving.   After taking another class from Tom Knisely at the Mannings on warp-face weaving, I fell in love with this pattern. It just so happened that Christmas was coming up and my mother was complaining that she needed new placemats. The warp-face…

  • Shadowweave towels

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    The results of a study group meeting on shadowweave produced these towels.   I was hosting evening study group for the weaving guild and the topic was shadowweave. I was also giving the demonstration of how this color and weave effect could be used. Since I had to warp the loom anyway for this, I…