new love

There's a new(to me) online crafters community. It's not a venue, but more of a promotion place for your items. The tone is very friendly and there are lots of cool applications,networking opportunities and you even get a blog. What more can i say but that i'm in love with it.
Visit them at Byhand.me

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as if i didn't know..

that life's too short to be dealing with a mixed warp of cotton and linen!But i didn't- or so i thought- have any 16/1 linen in white.That's what happens when you're deep into SABLE, the inspired term coined by Laura Fry and meaning stash acquisition beyond life expectancy. Note to myself-must do something about this asap.

Found not only one but two cones and went on to the warping board singing a little ditty.

Warp went on the loom and started with the boring part, weaving the heading and checking for mistakes. No mistakes glory be! Hey wait, this is too narrow for a table runner!! How come after all the counting, adding, dividing and doing all sorts of caballistic numbers? As if i didn't know that's why i studied literature and not astronomy.

i can't believe calculating the size of the universe and being off by a trillion solar systems, wiping out entire civilizations because of miscalculations or a transposition of a decimal point, something i have lots of experience with.

Anyway i'm off by 12 cms. And i thought this was the boring part. i'll have to make another chain
sley and thread it. But i'm not going to tie it to the back beam,that's too much. i'll tie it to cleaning product jug full of water and suspend it from a rig yet to be invented .And i'm alrady exhausted just thinking about it. Will have to wait until Friday as tomorrow i have Japanese class.....

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one of those big postcards

This was the original plan for March postcard for Calendar Girls, it was taking way too long and i had to design something else with the photo for the month. As you may recognize it was, yes, part of the NEW- aka never ending warp :).

Easter holiday gave me some time to finish projects and start others. And here is what happened to the weaving.

The iridescent blue is somewhat subtler, one can never photograph iridescence right.
And there's a lot of acting on on the weaving. i'm the decider right? WINK!

Which coincidentally brings me to some debate that's going around about the durability of Tyvek.
i think that if you're giving your work to friends, well poor friends will see their collection disintegrate, but friends are friends are friends.
But if you're charging for it there are other considerations.
i'm interested in your views.How do you feel about the issue?

BTW there's no Tyvek in the big postcard so Pat you'll have to burn it :)

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