Category: Rugs
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I’m Gonna Be (500 Miles)
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…
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Being Boring
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…
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Strip
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…
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We Need a Little Christmas
Reference Miss me? I have been busy, and the blog keeps sliding down the priority list. As an update, I am still working on the ribbed cable sock in Bad Moon Rising colorway of Dragonfly Djinni. I moved over to doing these in Magic Loop, as the small 12″ circular needle becomes difficult to work…
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House of Blue Leaves
Reference Ok, so they aren’t blue, but it is beautiful to see this in the morning, with the sunlight filtering through the trees in the front yard, hitting the trees in the back yard. First, an update on one of my little rants. It seems that there is some information about this subject, or at…
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Work in progress: Warp-face wool rug
Part of the reason for me to change my website over to a blog was to publicly humiliate myself. How? By highlighting projects that have been stuck in limbo, thus giving me a reason to get my rear in gear and get the dang thing done. This is one of those projects. Mr. Penney…
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Cotton ripsmatta rugs
This is part of a set of rugs that I wove in two different colorways: rose and blue. I made these rugs as Christmas presents for my family. An additional rug was woven and donated to Maryland Community Kitchen (now known again as Moveable Feast) for auction at their “Fall into Elegance” event. The warp is…