Comments on: Threading the Heddles http://curiousweaver.id.au/archives/210 Handwoven Textiles & Studio - Passionate about Weave Tue, 07 Feb 2012 03:24:45 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 By: lizzie doyle http://curiousweaver.id.au/archives/210/comment-page-1#comment-25613 lizzie doyle Sat, 04 Jul 2009 06:07:08 +0000 http://curiousweaver.id.au/?p=210#comment-25613 Oh an addition, the next thing I did was to dye the weft, a smooth shiny silk. Left it drying when I went out for something. I remember commenting to a friend about how wild the wind had become, not thinking about home at all until I got home to find the weft had dressed the trees around the garden! A compensation was that it was sooooo beautiful to see my trees sparkling with a beautiful dyed shiny web, lucky it was such slippery yarn it wond up fast - mind you that was also why the choke ties didn't work!!! Oh an addition, the next thing I did was to dye the weft, a smooth shiny silk. Left it drying when I went out for something. I remember commenting to a friend about how wild the wind had become, not thinking about home at all until I got home to find the weft had dressed the trees around the garden!

A compensation was that it was sooooo beautiful to see my trees sparkling with a beautiful dyed shiny web, lucky it was such slippery yarn it wond up fast – mind you that was also why the choke ties didn’t work!!!

]]> By: lizzie doyle http://curiousweaver.id.au/archives/210/comment-page-1#comment-25612 lizzie doyle Sat, 04 Jul 2009 05:53:46 +0000 http://curiousweaver.id.au/?p=210#comment-25612 I had a similar experience during the weaving for my last exhibition. I warped up 17 metres of 36 epi in a textured silk I had never woven with before except foe=r a tny sample to check for details! Being used to working with painted warp wools, I worked threading front to back and had the most awful mess, finally sorted it with great exercising of patience I had only ever dreamed of experiencing , the started weaving to to find that the whole lot collapsed when I moved the warp on because of the messy way I had finally wound it on. After 30 years of weaving I was back at square one on the idiot scale. Its a great lesson for the lazy weaver. I now follow Laura Fry's advice of warping back to front. I simply had got lazy working with forgiving wool which stretches and really only gives pain when it fluffs up and catches as you wind it on. I feel your pain hope it is going well now. I had a similar experience during the weaving for my last exhibition. I warped up 17 metres of 36 epi in a textured silk I had never woven with before except foe=r a tny sample to check for details! Being used to working with painted warp wools, I worked threading front to back and had the most awful mess, finally sorted it with great exercising of patience I had only ever dreamed of experiencing , the started weaving to to find that the whole lot collapsed when I moved the warp on because of the messy way I had finally wound it on.
After 30 years of weaving I was back at square one on the idiot scale. Its a great lesson for the lazy weaver. I now follow Laura Fry’s advice of warping back to front. I simply had got lazy working with forgiving wool which stretches and really only gives pain when it fluffs up and catches as you wind it on.

I feel your pain hope it is going well now.

]]> By: Peg in South Carolina http://curiousweaver.id.au/archives/210/comment-page-1#comment-25481 Peg in South Carolina Mon, 29 Jun 2009 17:58:43 +0000 http://curiousweaver.id.au/?p=210#comment-25481 I hope your maths is better than mine! Staying calm and relaxed but alert helps. I hope your maths is better than mine! Staying calm and relaxed but alert helps.

]]> By: Meg in Nelson http://curiousweaver.id.au/archives/210/comment-page-1#comment-25446 Meg in Nelson Sun, 28 Jun 2009 23:01:42 +0000 http://curiousweaver.id.au/?p=210#comment-25446 Yummy. I can't wait to follow your project! Yummy. I can’t wait to follow your project!

]]> By: Mary-Kay http://curiousweaver.id.au/archives/210/comment-page-1#comment-25427 Mary-Kay Sun, 28 Jun 2009 14:42:23 +0000 http://curiousweaver.id.au/?p=210#comment-25427 Oh, it's going to be SOOOOO pretty. I've been lurking and watching (new weaver here) and LOVING all of your work. Can't wait to see how this turns out. Oh, it’s going to be SOOOOO pretty. I’ve been lurking and watching (new weaver here) and LOVING all of your work. Can’t wait to see how this turns out.

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