Showing posts with label doubleweave. Show all posts
Showing posts with label doubleweave. Show all posts

Wednesday, October 6, 2010

Preparing For a Doubleweave Class

After a long hiatus from weaving and writing, I have started preparing for a class I will be taking next week.  Michigan Weaver's Guild
http://www.michiganweaversguild.org/workshops.html
is offering the three daydoubleweave class with Jennifer Moore, author of a new book on doubleweave. 

A friend from downstate told me about it and invited me to stay with her and go to class together.  I'm really looking forward to the class and getting together with other weavers again. 
After checking out the class, I realized I needed a loom with more shafts, so I started looking online and a couple days later, found this sweet loom.
It is a Glimakra Victoria 8 shaft table loom on a stand.  This class is getting expensive already!  I haven't even tried it out yet.  One thing I would like to do with this loom is to convert it to treadles.  If any readers have one like it with treadles, I would value your input on how they are hooked up.  What little I have found about converting, is that the company only makes a kit for the 4 shaft table loom.  I just need to see how they are hooked up, and I think Bob and I could make our own kit.

The doubleweave class is set up as a round-robin, which means everyone weaves samples on other class member's looms.  I received my pattern draft last week, and since that didn't leave enough time to buy more yarn, I am using my stash. 
The pattern calls for seven colors, which I didn't have, so out came the dyes last night. 

Since the beautiful fall season is upon us, I chose a fall color theme. I took the few colors I had of a 6/2 weight cotton and overdyed them to get the colors I wanted.


I finished rinsing them out today after I got home from work, and they are out on the line drying right now.

As soon as they are dry, I will start winding my warp, maybe today, or possibly tomorrow after work.

I love working with color, and trying ones that aren't my favorites.  It keeps me out of a rut, and have actually gotten some new favorites through the dyeing process.

Sunday, January 3, 2010

Other Photo Album Links to Weaver's Boot Camp Projects

Here are the links to my Facebook albums that I have been working on for the last couple days.  They are all projects from Weaver's Boot Camp, a class I took at Heritage Spinning and Weaving, in Lake Orion, Michgan back in 2005.  I will make more albums of other weaving projects as I have time.



Link:  Weaving with fine threads


Link :  Doubleweave


Link :  Summer and Winter



Link :  Shadow weave


Link :  Twill treadling variations


Link :  Overshot


Link : Color gamp