TEXTILLIAN STUDIOS

Category: Weaving

  • I’m Gonna Be (500 Miles)

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    Reference Been quiet around here, hasn’t it? Well, I have been trying to keep from publishing until I got these off of the loom. And they finally are off the loom. Hallejulah! There is still a few things left to do before I am completely done with them. But they have gone through the initial…

  • 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…

  • We Need a Little Christmas

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    Reference Miss me? I have been busy, and the blog keeps sliding down the priority list. As an update, I am still working on the ribbed cable sock in Bad Moon Rising colorway of Dragonfly Djinni. I moved over to doing these in Magic Loop, as the small 12″ circular needle becomes difficult to work…

  • The Twist

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    Reference So, to whom do I owe my speedy ability to do a blanket twist fringe on my weaving? Why the Olsen twins, of course! This trusty little twisty braider is the tool I use for doing fringe on scarves and shawls. Here is how it works. On this model, there are two prongs with…

  • Fairground

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    Reference So, last Wednesday, I was at the Maryland State Fair, judging the spinning and weaving competition for the third and final year (at least for now.) They will have new judges next year, so if you haven’t liked the way that I or my cohort have judged the contest, you can relax, as next…

  • Pink

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    Reference So, what I had to the loom? I began with purchasing four skeins of Djinni from Dragonfly Fibers in the Spring in Washington colorway. Don’t bother looking around for it. It was a colorway only available this spring. Whether it will be available again next spring, you will have to ask Kate. I used…

  • Apologize

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    Reference Well, Mel ask for a close up, so here it is. Yep, the tattoos are long gone. They only lasted about two days, and then they started to wear off, so we washed them the rest of the way off. You see, they were only airbrush tattoos. Sorry to disappoint. We got the tattoos…

  • Live and Learn

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    Reference Well, I finally got it off the loom before it reach a year. I basically had to bulldoze through this project because I wanted to use the loom for other things, but the yarn was too expensive for me to just cut off and call it a day. Here are my lessons learned from…

  • Cover Me

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    Reference So, about the baby blanket. As I mentioned earlier, I had a few gifts to make for people that were having babies, and this is the last of the gifts in that series. It is for my niece, who is expecting her first child, my sister’s first grandchild, and my parents’ first great grandchild.…

  • So Good to Be Bad

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    Reference Well, as you might have suspected, I did go to the Maryland Sheep and Wool Festival the other week. It was a hot one, too. I can’t remember it being that warm (up to 90 degrees) at the festival. Fortunately, this year, Columbia Sip and Knit had a hospitality “suite” just outside the entrance…