wonderful life-silk

silk and animation, it can't get better. 

fall is finally here crisp temperatures and golden sunlight.

have a great weekend!

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jacquard

                                                                     via Alice Bernardo


there's nothing i can write about jacquard looms that you don't already know.therefore i'll leave you with this link to explore and this collection of photos. enjoy!



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finito

took this to aix and stitched on the trips when i could not see the scenery any longer. yesterday i gave it the finishing touches and voila finito!

the base is distressed lutradur with a brass patina.then comes the linen knit ,as it was a sample to see how this particular linen would knit it came out already distressed. but i added some more distress.on with the stitching  here i had some hard thinking on what stitch to use as the base stitch because of the knit structure.

finally chose upright crosses in linen because i found it to be complementary to the knit. the seed stitch was a no brainer!  what can you add to give it unity and a good pop? 

then the focal point(s) distressed kunin felt with brass patina and puff paint dots with a yarn tail and some copper wire to force the metallic concept and make it visible.

i feel rather virtuous using all the knitted samples making stuff with them    ^_^ 

the awful news is that the ancient laptop which runs the loom gave me the dreaded black screen yesterday.

with husband- san being out of commission  it will have to wait a while. good thing i have old faithful aka 12 shaft table loom.

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