That’s neat. I have a punching rig that I bought, but it’s a bit cumbersome this looks good
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That makes me so happy! I adore your work and seeing all the beautiful things you create.
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That’s so kind of you to say! 
My little panda brush rest you made lives right here at my desk and makes me smile whenever I see it, and your lovely frog painting is in my sewing room 
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The yoke is gorgeous! Looks complicated! You’re beautiful sweater collection is growing!
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WOW! That’s a gorgeous detail!
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That looks so gorgeous! I love the design around the neck area and those colors are pure cozy fall vibes.
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I love that 
. I have quite a few of your watercolors next to my work desk where I can see them every day.
Those are beautiful colours and details!
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- WEAVING - Remake of “Colour and Weave”
One project ago, a trio of tea towels were wonkily woven on a new-to-me Leclerc two-shaft loom. I wanted to quit, but then went ahead and purchased a 45” Leclerc Mira. I “enrolled” (hey, it sounds fancy!) to Jane Stafford’s School of Weaving and gave those tea towels another go.
Dressing the loom properly and better tension overall made a world of difference! I was more careful with the selvages and learned how to hemstitch to better finish the ends.
This most recent set still has to be washed (and will inevitably go through shrinkage) and I no longer had enough 8/4 cotton in natural so 2 strands of 8/2 was used so the comparison may not be absolutely true, but I’m very pleased with the improvement!
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Those colors are beautiful!
Thanks everyone for all the love It is definitely very me to finish my autumnal sweater in Spring, neigh Summer! I, at least, got to wear it once to work since my office tends to be freezing with our wonky AC being reliably unreliable.
My next project will be a summer sweater with cotton yarn, fingers crossed that goes well.
Love the tea towels @gatheredroots ! They look professional and so handy.
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@sheepBlue that sweater is absolutely stunning!
@gatheredroots fantastic tea towels! I love functional crafts and admire people who know how to weave.
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I posted another traditional recipe:
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My husband and I dropped off our ballots on Monday and just got confirmation that they were received. They will be opened and counted today. I am grateful that our state allows mail in or drop off ballots because we have physical challenges standing or walking too far.
Anyway, I forgot to post the weekly question yesterday!
Warmer weather is hitting many of us. We are having unseasonable hot weather in our area…like in the 90’s and 100’s! I was sleeping under a blanket last week! It is suppose to plummet down to normal 50-60’s midweek.
Week 19: Do you gravitate to certain colors when you are making your favorite project? How do you motivate yourself if you make something in a color you are not fond of? Name your favorite and your least favorite colors.
My favorite color is red or orange. My least favorite color is yellow.
That being said, I tend to make a lot of things in blues and greens! If I am making something in a not so favorite color, it has to make sense to me…like a crochet duck or a child project like a blanket. If I know it is someone’s favorite color, it is easier. Also, I know certain colors are other people’s favorites so when I see that they made something from that color, it inspires me to revisit that color. I sort of like pink now because I see so many things made from that color. I used to hate pink.
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Orange! I love jewel tones though.
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I made a Raspberry Chocolate Dessert Lasagna! It’s pretty simple: a chocolate crumb base topped with chocolate pudding, a raspberry-cream cheese layer, and then Cool Whip. It came together beautifully and went over well for Mother’s Day dessert.
And thanks to the long weekend, I got in enough sewing time to finish my dad’s market bag. Go Habs, go!
The fabric is “cheater quilt” cotton from Funky Monkey Fabrics.
I love anything bright and fun, but also work with the mantra that “every colour has its place” so fortunately I don’t often find myself working with something I absolutely can’t stand. I don’t love neutrals or earth tones, but they provide balance and make the fun shades that much more fun. (This is what I say today, anyway; talk to me after I finish crocheting the earth tone-y scarf I’ve been asked to make. 
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I’m a bright colors gal. Favorite is purple; least favorite is maybe orange? Really, my dislike is for insipid pastels. I’d take a good saturated orange over a toothless pale lavender any day. (Well, most days.) If I’m crafting in a color I don’t like, it’s probably for a swap project, and that’s enough motivation.
Also, I’ve decided to sit out a bona-fide ICAD this year. I may do one here or there as I feel like it, but I’m not doing background prep or anything.
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I know a few people that would love that Habs bag but I don’tt even know if they won game 7!
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- Weaving - Tea Towels for Erin’s “Fruity Wedding” (as proclaimed by Erin)
I thought it’d be fun to just wing my own simple tea towel draft - in pursuit of learning how to weave - while simultaneously destashing some of the bright cottons that came with the Mira loom I recently purchased on Marketplace. I felt it was fitting as a gift for my niece’s self-proclaimed "fruity wedding” in August and hope she loves it.
I’m proud to say only one thread snapped this project (and I don’t know how because my tension was pretty good) and my selvages are fairly consistent too. If I could change one thing, I’d have left more space between each towel so the fringes are longer. However, moving forward, I’d like to hem the ends with my sewing machine because I’m sensing constant washing will only cause damage otherwise.
There are a couple of strands left to snip and tuck (I’m noticing some escaped the hemstitch!), but otherwise all I have left to do is wash and get those creases out.
When’s the next weaving swap happening?!
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