23 January 2010

Dry Spell Over, it's raining cats and dogs in ideas here!!


Well folk a long dry spell is over. I took down one of my looms as I need to do some structural work on it, and put the Nilus back up in its place for now. I've got a nice little warp on there and am working on stoles, the long scarf like garment a priest or preacher would wear.
It has been a long dry spell for me, I got wrapped up in the pseudo-life and games going on in the virtual world of Facebook and forgot that there was a real world out there. I was trying to get some inventory up for various festivals in the church so as to generate some income doing something I do enjoy while working on my degree in Accounting.
So now I'm back at the loom, faced with several possibilities, the main one is my next project. That's the thing with us crafting folk, we are always looking ahead a project or two. My next one is going to be a full warp, 36~45" wide and several yards long and will be a lace pattern that I fancy quite a bit which I think will make lovely material for altar vestments and hangings.
I'm also about to invest in a small upgrade on my loom with getting the sectional warp rakes for the warp beam, for the weaving illiterati out there, basically I'm setting the back beam or roll on my loom up so that I can put the warp threads (thread from from to rear of the loom) in an easier fashion.
All this to say that I'm getting back into the game and will be posting some pictures up as well, just as soon as I get this blogger thingy figured out. So have a bit of patience with this old crow and we'll muddle along.

ttfn.

1 comment:

Sylvie said...

I just bought a 36" Nilus (never weaved before), so I'll be following your blog and getting ideas