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Archive for October, 2007

Misc.

Giant woven scarfey wrappy thing!

It’s really long. Maybe it will get a trim. I warped really long, using the length of my entrelac shawl as a guideline. Plus added for shrinkage and waste yarn. Maybe a bit too much. Heck, at least it’s elegant. And I’m tall. It still wants a washing.
Yummy Yarn Cake!

Merino/Tencel (my [...]

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Moving On

I just updated my resume. After more than ten years, I’m letting go of:
Master of Arts, English Literature: San Francisco State University, ABT June 1995.
Thesis: The Airplane as Image of Consolation in Staring at the Sun and Leaving Earth.
It would have been such a good thesis. Publishable, even, I had been told. But no. Never [...]

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Look at Me Go!

Weave baby, weave;
Weaving inferno!
Weave baby, weave;
Weave that mother down …
Weavin’!

Faux mohair-ey stuff and faux boucle stuff from Daft Dames in Akron, NY, who have no website, but have a gigantic room full of cones which look sort of eh, ok–bordering on ick–but when knitted or woven up go poof! and end up being sort [...]

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EGLFC

Eastern Great Lakes Fiber Conference, that is. Hosted by our guild, the Weavers’ Guild of Buffalo. A lovely three day retreat of sorts, with too many yummy classes to choose from. Ok, it was really easy to choose–I don’t weave. Correction. I didn’t weave. I am now a Weaving Fool. But more on that later.
So, [...]

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Blocking

So, way, way back in 2005 I did the Charlotte’s Web Shawl from Koigu via Threadbear Fiber Arts. It came out smaller than expected; I still don’t know why. But I did do a craptastic job blocking it. First I sprayed it and pinned it out–it was lace! It’s delicate!

Sort of wonky. Then I was [...]

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I know. I KNOW.

I’m getting to it.
Sheesh.

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Can’t Blog … Must Weave …

No, really.

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