last night, i finished weaving the square footage needed for the mini golf hole! it was more exciting and relieving than i could have predicted, even though we still have a lot of work to do making hazards and pulling the whole piece together. nevertheless, i poured myself a nice, cold, new belgium mothership wit [...]
Posts Tagged ‘hemstitch’
29 May
weaving the bedrock+ water hazard
i’m using a diamond twill for the bedrock: here it is wrapping up on the front beam: the warp has four colors: i’m using an extended herringbone twill + random warp for the water hazard. the orange cord you see below is used for the first few shots to spread out the warp (when you [...]
19 May
oh no — a broken warp!
if you weave, it’s bound to happen: a warp thread breaks. here is one of mine doing exactly that: this one didn’t totally snap, but a few of its plies seemed to have broken, and as a result it became much, much looser than the neighboring ends. to fix it, i pinned a new warp [...]
16 May
the end of grass no.1
i’m almost done with grassy strip no.1. the whole thing is woven in 2/2 twill with the randomly striped warp and lots of weft striping. here it is wound up on the front beam: below is the back apron rod. you can tell i’m pretty much done because this is the end of the warp, [...]
10 May
hemstitching and cleavage
for those paying attention, this post is a dead giveaway that i am blogging with old information… catching up with myself, as it were. here is a great photo of shilo’s cleavage as she hemstiches the plaid sky in preparation to take it off the loom (i also hemstitch at the beginning of each piece, [...]
