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     Photographic Inspirations Blog      | It feels like ages since I’ve posted but it’s really only been a few weeks. I’ve been working on some new things and one of them is a new weaving project: I’m weaving this “fabric”with some very cool newspaper yarn from Darn Good Yarn. it’s a little tricky to work with because it’s so [...] it’s been a few weeks since I’ve done a weaving Wednesday post because the loom has been empty so there wasn’t anything to post about. I remedied that this past weekend though and decided that it was time to start thinking about weaving some holiday gifts. I recently bought several cones of rayon chenille with [...] remember the fabric I showed you I was weaving last week? Well here it is cut from the loom: The bottom piece is done with cotton batik and left to right on the top is cotton with a touch of gold metallic print on it,hand dyed silk cotton blend,commercial hand dyed cotton,[...] I decided to move my weaving updates to Wednesdays since “weaving wednesday”sounds a bit more lyrical than “what’s on the loom fridays”. I may not have an update every week but if there’s something on the loom I’ll be posting about it on Wednesdays and so …. I decided to pull out my [...] This week the loom has been warped up with some beautiful natural colored organic 3/2 cotton. I bought about 10 pounds of this yarn years ago and wove a ton of washcloths with it that went into some gift packages with some locally purchased hand made soaps. I put a 7 yard warp on [...] remember the fabric I was weaving on Friday of last week? Well some of it got turned into these journals: All of these are in my etsy shop here. Now that I’m back to weaving again I thought it might be fun to post an update every Friday about what my current weaving project is. This week I got a shipment of some beautiful recycled silk yarn from the Wool Peddler. This yarn is imported from India and is handspun by a women’s [...] Well I managed to get my first back to weaving project warped and woven… I decided my first project back would be a chenille scarf. Is it perfect? no way! But it was a good project to start with because the warp didn’t need to be very wide and it was quick to weave [...] About 10 years ago when I decided to give up wearing suits every day and working in the real world to pursue a more creative way of life I decided to take a weaving class. I had always been fascinated by how cloth was woven so when I found a weaving class not too far [...] |    It's easy to make your own Silk screens using the sun with PhotoEZ Sheets from EZScreenPrint!Use the offer code SUE10 at checkout to get 10% off your order! Get all the details"here"    | ||
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