Long ago I bought some loopers for a potholder loom – probably before Ken died in 2017. After Ken died I just couldn’t weave; I would sit and stare into space, or cry or weave all uneven. After I knit a bunch of necks for friends, I bought a pin loom and started weaving small squares on a 3’x3″ loom. I have laid them out but haven’t decided on the pattern and how I want …
Although I have sat at the loom a couple times recently, I wove very little. How could I fill or just live with the empty space of not having Ken making pots while I was weaving? After call from a five year old friend about her pot holder weaving, I decided to give it a go. Since Mardi Gras is about ten days away, I set my pandora for Mardi Gras music – something I …
Since Ken’s death I have been unable to weave. I thought I would find comfort in a familiar solo activity. But, no; each time I sat at the loom I would weep. I started burying it as I cleaned and cleared elsewhere. I kept wondering why, why, why. No answers came. Was it because each break I look up and see Ken’s desk, his clothes, where he did yoga? No, I could do other things …
After a morning of picking and putting up some beans and broccoli, I took a break from those pressing summer tasks. I returned to weaving a rug I had started before spring was upon us. It felt good to be at the loom and hear the summer rain. While I was weaving I thought of Ken out in the field. When the summer shower started I am sure he and Oscar took refuge in the …
I am excited about this rug! When I got the request for grey rugs I had wondered how I would make a good looking grey rug – not dingy or boring. I saw a photo of this pattern in other colors and it appealed to me as I love uneven somewhat random inlays of contrast color. Here is the 12 inch pattern I will repeat.
I had a request that I make some grey rugs. I warped up my older loom with grey warp. After weaving some white t-shirt fabric to space out the warp, I started running the shuttle – first the warp grey for the end! For the body of the rug I stared with a medium grey and then added some putty colored accents. Here is the view as I …
I have started warping up a loom. My goal is to keep both looms warped up so that I do more weaving during spring, summer and fall. The more carefully one warps up the loom the fewer mistakes one has to work around as one weaves. Since I am a sporadic weaver I don’t warp the loom often enough so that it is an easy task. First one calculates how many ends or strands of …
Winter includes many necessary tasks. Now the following are done: seeds ordered, taxes prepped, sales tax filed and paid, etc. Now I clean and weave between harvest dates. I am finishing off a test warp. I thought it would make two rugs, but I have enough warp for a smaller third rug with the remaining balls from three worn out wool blankets I am trying out something new – I had read about this …
After a morning in the kitchen, and some friendly delightful customers, i headed upstairs to work on weaving my last rug on this warp. I started with army green and added the end border stripe I did narrow grey and then the pink beige that was the narrow border stripe on the previous rug of mostly blue. You can see that prior rug on the cloth beam …
A few days ago Ken needed a break. He started a building project; he is taking a very old cart and converting it to a portable chicken coop. I also needed a break from produce work; I love tomatoes and peppers, but I have sorted many this season… So, I headed upstairs to a loom that has about enough warp for one more rug. I was experimenting with two different warps to figure out how …
