Tuesday was a good day for me, I left the Center a little bit earlier than usual, simply because I wanted to finish the last looper rug and get them off of the rug loom's groaning cloth beam. I had to work a little longer into the evening than I intended, but I did manage to get the job done.
These pictures are of the rugs just after I had serged the raw edges, they have since been hemmed, tagged, inventoried and in the suitcase! Yay!
I used one of the blending techniques I learned in my few moments of reading about, and practicing tapestry techniques. I am calling it my red fade rug.
I wove this green fade rug before the red one and I did not have as many green loopers as red, so that the effect is not as striking. I considered re-weaving it like the red one, but decided not to, I have other projects that need my time.
I love blue and brown together, and this one was fun to weave. You can only see a little bit of the rug as you are weaving, so I have to follow a drawn out diagram, to make sure that the beginning of the rug matches the end of the rug. This is important because most of the time I don't weave a rug straight thru, there are always interruptions.
This is the only rug that I was able to just weave without thinking about matching the ends. This one was a re-weave. It was initially woven many years ago before I knew much about how much loopers stretch and how it effects draw in, I got it right this time.
This last batch of loopers is from "Crazy as a Loom". Years ago she had a sale on these loopers and we as a group of Weavers, bought a bunch of them. These loopers are thinner, softer and more elastic than the loopers I have been using recently. They make a thinner rug too, so I can't decided which I like better, cause I really like a substantial rug!
There, the rug loom is empty of rugs, and I can move on to the last project, rugs again, but on a different loom with different materials. I would love to get 3 of the new rugs done, but I don't know if I have time to do that many, there is a lot of prep work involved.
I will get done what I get done, it won't be the end of the world if I only get one or two of them done, there is always the Foothills Guild show in Knoxville, in November.
Until next time, Happy Weaving, Tina
These pictures are of the rugs just after I had serged the raw edges, they have since been hemmed, tagged, inventoried and in the suitcase! Yay!
I used one of the blending techniques I learned in my few moments of reading about, and practicing tapestry techniques. I am calling it my red fade rug.
I wove this green fade rug before the red one and I did not have as many green loopers as red, so that the effect is not as striking. I considered re-weaving it like the red one, but decided not to, I have other projects that need my time.
I love blue and brown together, and this one was fun to weave. You can only see a little bit of the rug as you are weaving, so I have to follow a drawn out diagram, to make sure that the beginning of the rug matches the end of the rug. This is important because most of the time I don't weave a rug straight thru, there are always interruptions.
This is the only rug that I was able to just weave without thinking about matching the ends. This one was a re-weave. It was initially woven many years ago before I knew much about how much loopers stretch and how it effects draw in, I got it right this time.
This last batch of loopers is from "Crazy as a Loom". Years ago she had a sale on these loopers and we as a group of Weavers, bought a bunch of them. These loopers are thinner, softer and more elastic than the loopers I have been using recently. They make a thinner rug too, so I can't decided which I like better, cause I really like a substantial rug!
There, the rug loom is empty of rugs, and I can move on to the last project, rugs again, but on a different loom with different materials. I would love to get 3 of the new rugs done, but I don't know if I have time to do that many, there is a lot of prep work involved.
I will get done what I get done, it won't be the end of the world if I only get one or two of them done, there is always the Foothills Guild show in Knoxville, in November.
Until next time, Happy Weaving, Tina
1 comment:
With the blue jean rugs that Carl weaves, your new rugs will be a wonderful addition to our rug inventory for the Homecoming sale. These are beautiful!!!!
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