Special Visitor!

We had a surprise visit from Carol today! I didn't know that she was coming and was thrilled to see her walk in the door. She made her way around to everybody and I happened to catch her with Joycelyn and Liz #2!

Linda has her project underway. I wove this pattern a couple of times over the last few months and Linda decided to do it in Fall colors. Pat wound a blanket warp at home and brought it in to put on the Barn Frame Loom. She wound the colors seperately and will mix them in the reed before she winds the warp onto the back beam.

Jenny is ready to thread this vibrant warp, and Cathy is quietly weaving towels in lt pink/lilac/white.

Judith has been weaving for awhile on this rug warp and we decided that today was the day that she would cut the warp and take off the current batch of rugs to be finished. This warp is really quite unusual in that as colorful as it is, it seems to dissapear into each and every rug! There were seven rugs in this batch.

Phillys is getting ready to thread her new scarf, Karin continues to update the library and Dana is hand hemming some towels.

Time for "Show and Tell"! Pyllis brought in some textiles from her recent trip, a beautiful textured towel and a hotpad for a hot dish, both of which were made in Italy. Jenny finished a wool sweater just in time for Summer! (who else is knitting a wool sweater besides me!) Shannon made some inkle straps to help hold the reed on a loom at the Heritage Center in Townsend TN and she also finished a Huck Lace towel.

That is all I have for you today, check back with us next week as we get together for a potluck since it is the 5th Tuesday of the month! Until then, this is Tina, for all!

Weavers and Warps!

We had a good group today, even though there were several weaver's that couldn't make it. I first want to show you Linda and her warp that is really close to the tie on stage of warping. (this was the one I was missing last week!)

Next we have Mark who has changed the weft he is using on the "warp that never ends", and Judith who had come up with another color combo for her rug weft!

Jenny is getting ready to wind this smashing warp today and JP is in the process of threading his warp through the reed, almost ready to tie on.

Here are a couple of warps in progress that don't have their weaver's with them!

Marie was busy serging some towels for Susan #2 and Marie, Patty and Karin were hard at it to get some new inventory upstairs, though I didn't get a picture of them but I did get a picture of some rugs that Pat brought in today.

Now it is time for "Show and Tell"! Alice brought in a Knitter's Pride pattern holder that has magnet strips to help you keep track of where you are in your pattern. This works for knitting and I bet it would be great for inkle weaving pick up patterns as well as general treadling sequences. Also, Susan #3 brought in some towels that she had woven from the book "Simply Towels".

Well friends, that is all I have for you today, we will be back again next week with more new projects and maybe even some more finished warps. Until then, this is Tina, for all!

One Warp a Winding, Two Warps cut off, Three Warps Dressing

The crisp spring morning was a welcome refreshment after a couple of toasty afternoons, and the perfect day to come to the Appalachian Arts Craft Center to get together with the other Tuesday Weavers! Another busy day in the studio today. We had projects starting, in progress and finishing! Shirley is winding 1/2 of a warp and rather that leave it on the warping board she will chain it off today and wind the other half the next time.

Two warps were cut off today, one was Jenny's warp, this is fabric for wraps. Next is Betsy with a towel warp.

Three warps being dressed. First JP has begun to pull his warp through the reed. (remember this was what JP calls a warp from H E double hocky sticks a couple of weeks ago!) and Rhonda and I got her towel warp onto the back beam today! It always makes me smile to see a fresh warp on the back beam all lovely and straight, no matter how much of a pain it was to get it there!!! The third project that is going onto a loom is one that Linda finished threading today but I didn't get any pictures of that one.

Liz #1 had to leave early today but I managed to get a picture of her and her towel project! I asked her what the pattern is and she said "Squares".

Now it is time for "Show and Tell", and have we got some!!! Laura and I have been working on 2 seperate commission pieces and we just happened to finish and bring them in on the same day!!!! Laura finished a special order of 6 placemats and 1 very long runner in Ellen's pattern and I finished a special order of 8 placemats and 1 runner in a Barley Corn pattern called "Rose Point".

Susan #3 brought in her "Dye day" project to show off, Patty brought in a Baby Blanket that she had made out of "Cotton Sprout" by Premier. It is so much softer than what we normally use! More than one weaver took a picture of the yarn lable! Mark brought in a rug that he had woven for Judith on the "Sisters" warp he has been weaving off of for awhile.

That is all I have for you this week, until next time this is Tina, for all!