Category: Amalgamation

  • Yes, truly, that’s what I have entitled this draft. I doodle on the computer when the yarn refuses to behave. Or when the weaving pixies run amok, as they have this week. It’s an amalgamation on a simple point twill, no networking here, and I designed it with the help of TempoWeave on my Mac.…

  • I’ll bet you didn’t know that four leaf clovers can be blue. Insert smiley face. This draft for eight shafts was created using the principles of network drafting and amalgamation. To learn more about these topics, check out the online class I’ve created in partnership with LoftyFiber. The class is self-paced and contains many hours…

  • I am fascinated by weather maps and find unexpected beauty in wind patterns especially. How can anyone resist this morning’s map off the Carolina coast (as long as you are warm and dry, as I hope you are)? Yesterday I cut off a finished warp, and machine washed & dried it after separating the individual…

  • You’ll need some distance to make those dinnerplate-sized circles appear. Or just squint a little. 8/4 cotton warp & weft at 15 epi and ppi.