TEXTILLIAN STUDIOS

Author: textillian

  • Keep On Truckin’

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    Reference It’s been a while since you have heard from me, again, hasn’t it. Every time I think about posting to my blog, I think, if I just wait until X, I can include that in the post as well! The last of those items on the X list happened today, so today I am…

  • Color My World

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    Reference While I loved working with the natural gray of the blanket, it was time for some color after completing it. Luckily, it was also time to finish up another project. My YMCA socks are done. These socks are nice and comfortable and fit well. As an added bonus, the colors didn’t pool or form…

  • Hip to Be Square

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    Reference So it all started with the gray Romney fleece that I got at last year’s Maryland Sheep and Wool Festival. That fleece then got spun into singles. The result of all of that spinning was 10 skeins of singles that contained over 200 yards that were about 14 epi. Now, I knew I wanted…

  • The Weekend

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    Reference Ah yes. Another year, another Maryland Sheep and Wool Festival. What a time. The day before the festival, I helped one of the vendors, Jennifer of Spirit Trail Fiberworks, set up her booth. She had an armada of helpers, most of whom I recognized from years past when visiting her booth. Myself and one…

  • I Know There’s Something Going On

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    Reference Last time, I promised you that I would show what else I had going on besides the rugs; and true to my word (if a bit late), here it is. Let’s start with Benedict. I am on my second of the six skeins of baby alpaca and am just about to start decreasing for the…

  • I’m Gonna Be (500 Miles)

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    Reference Been quiet around here, hasn’t it? Well, I have been trying to keep from publishing until I got these off of the loom. And they finally are off the loom. Hallejulah! There is still a few things left to do before I am completely done with them. But they have gone through the initial…

  • Tight Fit

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    Reference Yeah! I got another pair of socks done. It seems like it has been forever since I have completed a pair of socks, and after trying on the first sock of this pair, I was almost going to rip them out and try again. I had a devil of a time trying to get…

  • Being Boring

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    Reference So, when I last talked about the rugs I am weaving, this is how they looked. I wove in a few more strips since then and decided that I did not like the results. It was boring me to tears. Unlike the warp-face rugs that I had woven before, the weft strips were going…

  • Lucas with the Lid Off

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    Reference Knitting is still going on here, especially with my weaving undergoing a re-group. More on that in the next post. My first new project of 2011 turns out to be my first completed project of 2011. This is Elizabeth Zimmermann’s Maltese Fisherman’s Hat from Knitters Almanac. I used two strands of Berroco’s Ultra Alpaca…

  • Strip

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    Reference So, what was I doing New Year’s Eve? Well, during the day I was cutting strips with my rag cutter. I dug it out so that I could cut up the eight yards of fabric that I am using as the weft to weave the rugs that were being put on the big loom…