for the love of our craft

have a good weekend.






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inching is easier than centimitering

remember i was salvaging warps so there was no chance of warping two threads together.i am here now slowly and patiently commencing to juggle two kinds of yarns; silk that catches like crazy and hemp that has no stretch. the hemp warp will be weighted and not beamed.life is short and summer is coming soon.

meanwhile design wise:

 

 

stones in itsukushima



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a well spent weekend

 another installment of this is fashion because i say so. spent the weekend sewing  the summer wardrobe .
i've lost a lot of weight-not complaining because i'm close to my old self-but that means either sewing or spending time taking in clothes. and i much do the former than the latter.

 i scored this wonderful linen fabric in nippori's fabric town when i was in tokyo. There's  something for everyone in fabric town ; notions  nice quilting fabrics, gorgeous fabrics as well as very ugly tacky ones, upholstery fabrics, you name it. it was made clear there  that japan is a textile manufacturing power.

the bad was that it was golden week and 90% of the shops were closed.the good is that my visa was more than grateful.

back to my fabric it is a bluish grey double weave linen with circular  areas of double weave known to weavers as pockets.

the pattern is a download from tessutti in australia. fun sewing and very  easy wear boho looking ^_^ !

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