Whew!
I did some more finishing this week:
Jane to the rescue ("Plain Jane" or Jayne from Firefly - you choose!)! The fancy sewing machine just couldn't handle the thickness even though I had used carpet warp on the hems, so I used the faithful treadle. No problem for Ja(y)ne - I love those old machines! :-D
The finished dishcloths:
These turned out much better than the blue ones I did back in June 2007 in my opinion. They are a bit larger too, but not too much so.
And I tried to take a better picture of the shirt - plus I added a bow to the front (I think you can click to biggify):
I tried fiddling with the picture to get rid of the distracting background and sharpen the texture's relief. The shirt is not quite that bright in real life, but I think the texture shows a bit more now.
I did a few more inches on the scarf; I'm using my homemade temples as the sides of the scarf keep wanting to curl under a bit making a good selvedge difficult. Because I'm using acrylic I can't tighten down the warp enough to fix it that way. And I can't tell if I need to tighten the side warp threads or loosen them - I've not had a warp behave quite like this before. The center threads are all bunched together - perhaps an effect of not using the heddle to 'beat'? I'll try doing another section with the heddle as beater instead of the shuttle and see what happens.
This weekend I spent a good part of my time looking for one of my weaving booklets - I cannot find it anywhere. :-/ I even took everything off my craft bookcase (and of course not everything would fit back on!) looking for it, but no dice. Luckily I had made a photocopy of most of it since it's an older pamphlet not in the best of shape, but I sure wish I could find the original. I did discover that I have a surprising number of weaving books/pamphets/printed stuff from the internet. And an even more surprising number of knit and crochet books - I see a major weeding-out in my future.
There may not be a blog post next weekend - I get to go to a cotton spinning workshop on Saturday and Sunday! It's quite rare to have any spinning workshops here, so even though I'm not all that interested in spinning cotton I'm going. :-D
Jane to the rescue ("Plain Jane" or Jayne from Firefly - you choose!)! The fancy sewing machine just couldn't handle the thickness even though I had used carpet warp on the hems, so I used the faithful treadle. No problem for Ja(y)ne - I love those old machines! :-D
The finished dishcloths:
These turned out much better than the blue ones I did back in June 2007 in my opinion. They are a bit larger too, but not too much so.
And I tried to take a better picture of the shirt - plus I added a bow to the front (I think you can click to biggify):
I tried fiddling with the picture to get rid of the distracting background and sharpen the texture's relief. The shirt is not quite that bright in real life, but I think the texture shows a bit more now.
I did a few more inches on the scarf; I'm using my homemade temples as the sides of the scarf keep wanting to curl under a bit making a good selvedge difficult. Because I'm using acrylic I can't tighten down the warp enough to fix it that way. And I can't tell if I need to tighten the side warp threads or loosen them - I've not had a warp behave quite like this before. The center threads are all bunched together - perhaps an effect of not using the heddle to 'beat'? I'll try doing another section with the heddle as beater instead of the shuttle and see what happens.
This weekend I spent a good part of my time looking for one of my weaving booklets - I cannot find it anywhere. :-/ I even took everything off my craft bookcase (and of course not everything would fit back on!) looking for it, but no dice. Luckily I had made a photocopy of most of it since it's an older pamphlet not in the best of shape, but I sure wish I could find the original. I did discover that I have a surprising number of weaving books/pamphets/printed stuff from the internet. And an even more surprising number of knit and crochet books - I see a major weeding-out in my future.
There may not be a blog post next weekend - I get to go to a cotton spinning workshop on Saturday and Sunday! It's quite rare to have any spinning workshops here, so even though I'm not all that interested in spinning cotton I'm going. :-D
Labels: Harp, RH weaving
posted by CL at
20:55
2 Comments:
Great work, love the dishcloths! I am wondering about your treadle sewing machine. I have a Minnesota Model A, but the band to turn the crank is missing. What does your machine have to work the treadle with? Looks like possibly leather? thanks, Elaine.
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Elaine, at 4/13/2009 6:53 PM
Hi Elaine!
Thanks!
I'm using a bona-fide treadle drive band. You should be able to get it from your local sewing machine shop; you will have to cut your 'cord' to length and attach the ends together. If you can't find it there, join the TreadleOn group
http://www.treadleon.net/
They are extremely helpful there and will be able to hook you up with a source. :-D
By
CL, at 4/14/2009 7:08 AM
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