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Not just for weaving! This is an informal Show & Tell. for the current calendar year. Guild members are invited to share a photo of a recent project. Send a good quality .jpg along with a caption describing your creation to Sarah Warren at sarahwarr@gmail.com. Click on any picture to zoom in!
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Archived Hot! Off the Loom
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Petra Weishaupt-Smith
Deflected Doubleweave Shawl Warp and weft Holst Garn supersoft wool - bleached white and cloudberry in warp and bleached white and purple haze in weft. Sett 15 EPI; key to smooth weaving of this sticky wool yarn is to use a 15 dent reed so that only 1 end is in each reed slot. Finished measurements 23" by 78"; this shawl is soft and lofty after hand washing. My warp was 14 yards long and 26" wide and I wove 5 ponchos + 1 shawl. These pictures show the shawl. January 2022 |
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Dornan Trainer
Bread Cloths The pattern is Strickler 446 - a twill-overshot combination. 8/2 cotton for warp, pattern weft and tabby. Warp and tabby are off-white, pattern is in various colors. Sett: 20 epi. January 2022 |
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Dornan Trainer
Turned Twill Scarf 8/2 Tencel for Warp and Weft. Turned Twill for 8-shaft pattern from Pattie that she modified slightly. She learned so many tips and tricks and got a really nice scarf in the bargain! She highly recommends it! January 2022 |
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Dawn Hummer
Wall Hangings A series of 3 panels for an installation at the UNC REX Holly Springs Hospital that recently opened. They are 8 ft tall x 2 ft wide, hung on stretched canvas, and hung in the central hospital lobby. The title is "Hope Springs Eternal". They are woven in the SAORI style using a mercerized white cotton warp, with mixed fibers and no plan of action - just randomly woven while at the loom. January 2022 |
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Dawn Hummer
Undulating Twill Scarves The scarves are 75" x 7.5 " using Blue Heron Metallic Rayon on 5/2 bamboo. January 2022 |
Caryl Cid Pinwheel Border Napkins in pink and charcoal 8/2 cotton as a gift for her daughter's birthday. Sett was 20 epi, 22 ppi and with a 10 dent reed January 2022 
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Caryl Cid
Table Runner and Placemats are the current WIP. 1 1/2" strips of cotton batik fabric as weft and 8/4 carpet warp as the warp. Its loosely based on Tom Knisely Sakiori pattern from his book on Handwoven Table Linens. January 2022 |
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Preemie Hats!
Check out these premie hats delivered to UNC’s Neonatal Care Center. Many were knitted by Jean Johnson and Barbara Koch. Directions for knitting preemie hats are on the TWG Only/Project Ideas Page. Next collection for the unit will be in May 2022. December 2021 |
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Jane Bynum Smålandsväv with linen warp and ground weft and wool pattern weft. December 2021 |
The finished tapestry
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Phyllis Demko
Tapestry “Sunday Morning,” inspired by one of the sun pictures from the TV show “Sunday Morning,” which I have watched for years. The warp is cotton seine. Weft is all wool – Harrisville Highland and Paternayan. I added the blue sky to cool it down. Tapestry is mounted on linen wrapped foam board. November 2021 |
The inspiration photo
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Mary Roper
These towels were woven on a 16-Inch Kromski Presto rigid heddle loom with a 10-dent rigid heddle. The warp was mostly Yarn Bee Rainbow Wrapsody brand (doubled in the warp, with a few quadrupled) plus additions of Sugar and Cream or "I Love This Cotton" . One warp used Yarn Bee Rainbow Wrapsody in Peacock with additions of purple Sugar and Cream . The weft was 3.75/3 cotton in Oxford Grey. The other warp used Yarn Bee Rainbow Wrapsody in Cornucopia with additions of I Love This Cotton orange, and purple. The weft was 6/2 pink daisy. September 2021 |
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Pam James
These are pillows I just finished for my couch. The usual - - recycled yarn. I designed the pattern. The pattern is from Landis Valley Linen.. I’m not sure how much the finished pattern resembles what I started with! One back is just a variation on that without a border. The other back is rigid heddle. Because of the slipperiness of some of the yarn and the long floats, I used light weight iron-on interfacing on the patterned weave sides. Surprisingly pleased with the results! August 2021 |
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Sharon Grubb I made this runner in Warp Rep for a friend's birthday. Her home has gray walls with lots of artwork in bold colors which I used for my inspiration, taking me far outside my usual range of colors. The warp is 8 colors of 5/2 perle cotton; the thick weft is 4 strands of black Peaches & Creme cotton and the thin weft is one strand of black 10/2 perle cotton. While I borrowed ideas for arranging the blocks from a number of examples I found on the internet, the final design of blocks and color selections were my own. July 2021 |
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Donna Eash Silver Linings Shawl pattern by Tammy Bast from Holiday 2020 edition of Easy Weaving with Little Looms. Woven on 25" Schacht Flip using a hack of 15 dent Ashford Heddle. Warp is Findley Juniper Moon Farms in Dove. Weft is same in Greyhound. 19" x 85". Leaving the fringe loose. It's SO soft. June 2021 |
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Dianne Byrne Tencel scarf woven on 8 harnesses in turned twill. Woven during Pattie Lamb's Virtual Scarf Class. June 2021 |
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Ann Schelbe
The scarf was woven on a Rigid Heddle Loom with handspun yarn. The warp yarn is spun from roving from Fiddlehead Fibers in Pittsburgh, PA and is Merino/ Corriedale. The weft is Alpaca, origin unknown. Both yarns were spun in 2020 as spinning covid projects. The weave is a plain weave, done on a 10 dent on a rigid heddle. April 2021 |
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Susan Griffiths
This is a cotton scarf woven on a rigid heddle loom with a 10 dent heddle. The inspiration fiber was spun (by Pattie Lamb) with analogous blue colors. I created a wrap with blues and greens and picked two complementary orange hues. For my second wrap I experimented with Fibonacci numbers to create the warp sequence. Ultimately I decided to restrict the warp to the blues and greens, and those colors were repeated in the weft along with touches of the two orange hues for accents. April 2021 |
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Petra Weishaupt-Smith
Poncho & Shawl are woven in 8-shaft Atwater Bronson Lace
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Poncho
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Shawl
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Pam James
A friend wanted a weaving with ‘stuff woven into it’. This is what she got. If it were in a gallery it would say “reclaimed yarn and findings”. In the vernacular that translates to; ‘unraveled sweaters and crap I picked up off the street’ (truly!) March 2021 |