Another Tuesday in the Books!

We will get straight to the weavers and their projects! We will begin with the back row from Left to right. Linda is busy threading this lovely hand dyed warp and Laura is still weaving on the first placemat using her Mother's favorite pattern. (I'll come back to Laura when we get to show and tell)

Next we have Angela who is weaving a crammed and spaced towel project. Then Sally is weaving mug rugs, and her small overall pattern is a being woven in a lovely green!

Jenny has begun weaving that beautiful hand dyed warp that she was threading last week (the yarn is still on the banner above when I am writing this post)! Wendy is wowing us with her color sense on the project on her table loom!

Cathy's cloth beam is getting really full! and her Sister Nikki is making some eye dazzeling fabric with red and green weft!

I brought my Leksand band loom today to show to the band weavers amongst us. Marilyn was captivated by it and she kept giving me the eye and telling me I was enabling her! Then speaking of bands Alice is all about UT orange and white!

When Betsy settled in to thread the heddles for her next fabric, I saw that I was going to have to set the barn loom up for easier threading, luckily I have a barn loom at home so I knew what to do! I moved the lease sticks closer to the heddles and I pushed the swinging beater bar closer to the heddles as well. Then we placed a stool in the middle of the loom and helped Betsy literally get into the loom to thread!

Hey friends it is time for Show and Tell! Shannon made another purse using handwoven fabric, and leather. She told us she is keeping this one herself! Jenny hand dyed a rayon warp last Thursday when a few of the weavers got together to play with color!

Linda finished this lovely towel warp recently. She said that she followed Carol's advice to wind the white warp first then the colored stripes using a second warp stick and wind them on together. Thursday Laura was one of the weavers that played with color. She dyed some fabric to go with some 8/4 cotton some of which was from her Mother's stash, for rugs using once again her Mother's favorite rug pattern!

Mark had just a little bit of warp left over from his placemat project. So he combined his 2 different wefts and made a clever table mat!

That is all the news for today, join us next week for some more weaving fun! Until then, this is Tina for all

Tuesday is Happening!

I snapped a few pictures of the looms as I walked in early for once!

Before you know it the weavers began to file in, Alice came to work on her rigid heddle project that had been warped last week when there was a little more room on the white tables, after the bulk of the weavers had left.

Colleen is on the last towel on her Summer Winter towels and she has already picked out her next warp. It is a warp that she dyed during the last Dye day.

Betsy is putting a new warp on the old Barn Frame loom with a little help from some friends.

We used our lease stick holders again!

Marilyn has begun weaving on her towels after several re-threadings and re-sleying.

Mary, one of our newer weavers has finished her first warp! She is already talking about a floor loom! Of course after you cut the fabric off of the loom you need to stabilize the ends in whatever way seems neccesary.

Pearl is weaving a white with colors warp with a medium color in a tan/linen color which makes the twill runs really stand out!

Oh Hey! It is time for Show and Tell! Betsy wove some fabric at home last year and Laura took it home and made a lovely top out of it, and then Shannon loved it so much that it will never make it into the shop upstairs!!!!

Speaking of Shannon, she has made another bag or two using her handwoven fabric and a little bit of Inkle wove belt and cork fabric!

This Tuesday is done, the looms are closed and back in place in the corrall and the lights are out. We will be back next week with more weaving fun and who knows what else. Join us next week, until then this is Tina, for all!