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December 11, 2024
Week 49 of 2024 from Thread Head

This week I wove a set of tea towels -

The pattern is from Jane Stafford's School of Weaving, Season 5, episode 1 - Turned Twill Towels on 8 Shaft. Woven in 8/2 cotton.
The warp was fairly neutral, so it played well with various weft colours, and they all look so different.
I wove these on a time crunch (4 days from start to finish, they are sold), so I now have another set on the go because they were so nice to weave.

Works in Progress - 

Second Story Tee - the back is almost finished.
Cross Stitch - another row ...

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November 26, 2024
Attack of the Squirrels :-) from Quilting & Learning

Hi and welcome! I have lots of artsy, stitchy things to do but I got a full attach of the squirrels

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November 18, 2024
Week 46 of 2024 from Thread Head

I finished weaving the "woven" towels this week-

 This one woven with natural 16/2 cotton for the tabby, and navy 8/2 cotton for the pattern weft. I hemmed this one on the reverse, compared to the other towels on this warp.
After cutting the towel off the loom, I spread out the warp in a different reed (original sett at 30 ends per inch, new sett at 24 ends per inch) to weave a sample with the rest of the warp. I wanted to see if the pattern would weave up with squares as opposed to diamonds, and ...

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November 9, 2024
Table Topper and Playing with Weaving from Quilting & Learning

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September 2, 2024
Let's Catch Up Some from Rose Prairie Quilts and Farm




I'm back.

I thought I would share some more. 

Like I said last time, seeing how it's been so long I have a lot to share..... Past and Present

I should start with the finishes, and the quilt shown last week that was getting the binding sewn on, is now done and ready to display next month.


  




The pattern is Hocus Pocus and I used a jelly roll and layer cake for the pumpkins. Did add some scrap green I had and for the background I used my favorite Kona Snow. I like it because it reads white ...

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August 19, 2024
Week 33 of 2024 from Thread Head

Lots of works in progress this week - 

I finally started weaving on this new batch of tea towels. It is a pattern from Etsy I have been wanting to try, but it took me three attempts to get the warp on the loom (I kept making threading repeat errors! Over 600 threads!!). It is my first time weaving towels with 16/2 cotton. The weaving is going well, and much more fun now that I have it figured out.
I started a new pair of socks with some handspun from TdF last month. They are my regular toe-up socks, but ...

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May 13, 2024
Week 19 of 2024 from Thread Head

A few projects on the go-

Started a new weaving project - a simple, plain weave, project to stay on the loom for the summer time (more tea towels).
I picked this tatting project up again (started in 2021), another simple project for the summer.
There was a hot 27ºC day yesterday for the temperature blanket.

Photos from Around-
Very exciting week for us - the chicks arrived!!
Cute little balls at the beginning of the week - 1 day old, 9 of them.
It's amazing how fast they are growing - 5 days old.
6 days old.
We have three different breeds ...

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May 5, 2024
Week 18 of 2024 from Thread Head

Finished a few things this week -

A skein of Merino/Nylon for sock, from fibre that I dyed last week.
And a set of six tea towels. The pattern is Four Blocks on Four Shafts: Summer & Winter Towels from Handwoven magazine, issue May/June 2013, woven in 2/8 cotton, cotton chenille and cotton bouclé.

Still working on some other projects too, including -

Socks with some more handspun Merino/Nylon.
And the temperature blanket - temperatures all over the place and a birthday this week.

Photos from Around-

A pair of Canada Geese on the workshop roof, and a pair of ...

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March 14, 2024
Weaving Detour from Gene Black an Alabama Artist

It seems that I haven't posted any creative hand work in a while.  But on March 3rd, I ordered a frame loom with a heddle bar to try a different type of weaving. This was shipped from Belgium and arrived on March 12th. (pretty fast I think.)   

(picture borrowed from Funem Studio)


 Honestly it just sat in the box for a day.  Then I assembled the loom (fairly easy assembly) and added a warp to it.  For those of you who weave on various looms, this is probably the easiest warping I have ever done. 

Next I took the ...

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December 28, 2023
A New Adventure from Quilts and More - Home Made Creations

 I'm a quilter at heart, and I expect I always will be. But OMG, I've found a new hobby!

Over the summer, I visited my sister and we went to a small fair in her neighborhood.  I saw a weaving demonstration there, and I was entralled. How did she do that?  The weaver had created a sampler that was 2" squares, and every square was a different pattern. I could understand every row (or set of rows) being different, but how did she get the pattern to change ACROSS the row?  My engineering brain latched onto it immediately ...

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Placemats from Quilts and More - Home Made Creations

Just in time for Christmas, I finished 5 (of my 6) placemats.   Just enough for my small Christmas gathering.  These were so much fun!  I used 3 different weaving patterns, just for some variety, but kept the stripes the same for continuity.

This the first one, just off the loom. I gave it a wash and it tightened up some.  It is far from perfect, but I'm pretty happy with my first attempt.


 

This was the pattern I chose for my second pair of placemats.  I think I saw it called "Cat's Cradle", but I'm probably remembering ...

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December 27, 2023
December 26th from Thread Head

The tea towels are all washed and hemmed.
The warp is 2/8 cotton (natural and black). Four of the towels are woven with 2/8 cotton, two woven with cotton chenille, and  the leftover warp was woven with cotton bouclé. The pattern for the draft is from 'A Weaver's Book of 8-Shaft Patterns' (the Strickler book), #246.
Full moon, for a moon lit morning walk.
Woodpecker at the peanut ring.

All the best!♥︎

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September 1, 2023
August Finishes from Rose Prairie Quilts and Farm

Here we are again, another month that seem to just fly by. Its amazing considering we all seem to suffer one way or another from the weather.

Here in NE Oklahoma it was extreme heat and humidity.

A good thing because of it I was inside a lot, which meant I was keeping myself busy with projects.

Was pretty successful too.

This is going to be a picture heavy post.

I'll start with the one that I had been working on the past few months

the Spring Fling Shop Hop from 2015.

It turned out so pretty, and next ...

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August Wrap-Up from Thread Head

It has been a lovely August. Lots of visits with family, and time spent outside. I did get a few crafty things done.


This quilt I don't really know too much about. I finished it for a family friend, who was finishing it for her friend (before our friend was no longer able to sew). The top was all finished (I believe our friend re-did a few seams for her friend), so I layered it, machine quilted it and sewed on the binding.
The quilt is really lovely. I think it might be a layer cake quilt. The blocks ...

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May 15, 2023
Making an Experimental Sketchbook from Quilting & Learning

Hi, I hope that Spring has finally shown up in your part of the world (on the top side of the equator). Otherwise, I hope that you're enjoying your Fall weather

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March 25, 2023
Having Fun! & My 1000th Post! from Thread Head

I finished a few things recently.

This quilt is the Laundry Basket Quilts Mystery Quilt 2021 (all the patterns are still on the blog).
I finished all the blocks in the summer of 2021 and put it all away (busy with outside activities at the time). I finally pulled it out to sew the blocks together, and was pleasantly surprised that 2021 me had even stacked and labeled all the blocks ready be sewn!
I quilted an 'organic' feather design around the border, echoed it on one side, for the star in the centre I quilted 1/4" from the ...

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A Towel and A Pillow from Thread Head

I wove a handspun linen towel!

It is an Atwater-Bronson lace weave.
It is based on the Pure Delight towels from Handwoven magazine, issue Jan/Feb 2015 (I changed the sett, number of repeats, ends per inch, and a bit of the treadling).
I spun the flax - that took a month! And I only had enough for one towel (lots of white left though).
It is a four shaft weaving pattern, and very easy to weave. I couldn't have fit in another pattern repeat, and used up all the warp and just about all the yarn for the weft ...

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February 23, 2023
Spin the Bin 2023 from Thread Head

For the past couple of years I have participated in a "Spin the Bin" over on Ravelry. It is a personal challenge to collect together a bin of fibre (of at least 24 ounces), and spin it up within the year.

This was my bin of fibre for this year.
I started with 851g/30.1oz of fibre.
Mainly fibre that had been in my stash for over 5 years, that was too coarse to make garments with.
There is linen, a wool and linen blend, and some generic wool.
This is all the finished yarn!
1651m/1806yds of yarn ...

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February 4, 2023
More Weaving, Spinning, and Stained Glass from Thread Head

I finished a couple of weaving projects recently-

This first one is an overshot scarf, the last of my kits from the Yarn Barn.
The pattern is "Latte or Mocha?', made with bamboo. It is the first scarf that I have woven that is nice to wear. It is silky, 'drapey' and so soft. I thought it would be my last handwoven scarf (I find weaving narrow things harder), but I'll probably make some more like this. It looks nice on each side, the sides are opposite.

The last three projects I wove were all overshot - woven with two ...

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January 15, 2023
A Couple of Weavings from Thread Head

I finished a couple of woven table runners recently. Both from kits I bought when I went to the Yarn Barn of Kansas in December. The are both overshot, woven with tencel and mercerized cotton.

The first is the pattern Rings of Circles. This is the first time I have woven with tencel (and I heard it can be problematic), but apart one of the floating selvedges breaking non-stop, it was fine (I think it was because it was the outer round of thread on the cone, and maybe it was already abraded).  
An old sad iron makes a great ...

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