Dye Day Update
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1w ago
I have some pictures from Thursday and Friday last week. Carol told me that there were 6 warps and 7 skeins of yarn for weft dyed for the Tuesday Weavers. There were several that brought their own projects to dye, and there were many there to help out and learn the process. The names I got were: Mark, Jenny, Barbara, and several of the new weavers came out to play with color as well. Dana and Patty helped do a Tie dye class for kids one of the days. Today, Lou Ann was busy rinsing and spin drying the skeins and warps, we really love the spin dryer! Next week I hope to have some pictures of ..read more
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Thick Weft
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2w ago
There are several projects in the Studio that call for thick wefts. Thick of course is a relative term, I suppose I mean weft that is far thicker than the warp. John Paul is weaving rugs with strips of floral fabric. Jenny is weaving rugs with strips of T-shirt material. Pat is using Blue Jean fabric strips for her rugs, and Liz used fabric strips for the placemates she finished and cut off today. There are several new warps on the looms, Carolyn has a new warp on the loom, as does Shirley and Joycelyn. There are probably a few more, but I didn't get pictures of them. While all of tha ..read more
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Prep for Dye Day
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3w ago
Today it was almost lunch time before I picked up my phone to take pictures for the blog! As usual there is a lot going on in the studio. There is a lot of warp winding and skein winding for Dye Day that is coming up next week on Thursday and Friday, But first let's take a looks at some of the other things that are happening today. Pat has started weaving blue jean rugs on the Barn Frame loom, that is using the wool rug warp in different greens. Jenny is working quickly through the t-shirt rug weft. Hold the presses, I forgot to put in a picture of our new student Kris cutting her warp off ..read more
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Projects Everywhere!
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1M ago
There is a lot going on in the Studio this week, projects coming off of the looms and projects going onto looms, then of course there is the preparation that goes along with rug weaving. I have always heard that rag rug weaving is a slow process that goes fast! Pat, who weaves on our huge barn frame loom is the proof of that saying. If you have followed us for awhile you will see that I post often of her taking rugs off of the loom and another warp going right back on the loom. Today was no exception, this time she has taken several shades of green and wound them together in random fashion to ..read more
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New Rug Warp and New Plans
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1M ago
Here they are again, the new Weavers, and it looks to me like they are getting along well! I really must get name tags on them so that I can learn their names! Pat is in the middle of getting a new rug warp on the ole Barn Loom. She chose a variety of greens in this warp, she had wound it at home and brought it in early this morning and by the time I got there she was almost ready to thread. Jenny was already on her second Tshirt rug, and Marilyn showed me her latest Inkle sample. Liz is planning a new Baby Blanket, and Karin worked on a form for us to fill out and have at each loom so th ..read more
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Souper Bowl Tuesday!
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1M ago
Every year, we hold a potluck after Super bowl Sunday and we call it Souper bowl Tuesaday! I will be posting pictures of the massive amount of soup and other goodies that we had for lunch today in a minute. First I will post pictures from this morning, once again Carol is surrounded by students! After that I found that Linda was putting on a new warp, this one is hand dyed fine bamboo. It didn't take long to get it wound and ready to thread. Once that was done, Carol anounced that it was lunchtime!!! I lost count of all the soups there were, it must have been 9 or 10! After lunch I found C ..read more
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Spotlight on Ellen's Pattern
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1M ago
There was a lot going on in the Studio this morning! We had the students working away under Carol's direction. Pat was cutting rugs off of the barn frame loom. I picked out a couple of my favorites! Before we get to Show and Tell, I wanted to highlight our favorite go to pattern for table runners and placemats. They were named after one of the founders of the Appalachian Arts Craft Center and the head of the weaving department for years. From what I understand Ellen was a force to be reckoned with, and ran a tight ship. One of the patterns that she was fond of using was what we call Elle ..read more
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Another Snow Day
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2M ago
In East TN, we do get snow almost every year and many years we see snow a couple of times over the winter. Usually, the snow is all gone within a day or two. This time though, we had unusually low temps, not getting above freezing the whole week. The schools all over the area are once again closed, for the most part it is because the buses are still not able to pick up the kids to go to school. We follow the local school schedule, so once again we will not be at the Center today. I asked for the weavers to send me photos of what they have been doing this week, and they did! Patty sent me pictu ..read more
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Snow day!
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2M ago
We had a good bit of snow at my house and all around the area north of I-40. South of I-40 was not hit as hard with snow but took a good bit of rain, sleet and a bit of snow. I took 2 pictures of my barn to show you, one picture is from yesterday early afternoon and the other picture is from this afternoon. We got 8.5 inches here, which put me in the mood to bake! After I dug out to the barn, around the chickens and made sure the goats were fed, I spent the day making bread, granola and pancakes for the freezer. I would say that this was a "once in a decade" type snow. It is also colder than ..read more
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A "School" of New Students!
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2M ago
We were fewer in number today than usual, and it is a good thing too, because we had a "School" of new Students come today! 4 to be exact with a 5th one that will join us next week. I took several pictures of the learning process and I thought I would just post them as they happened. While the students were busy with the business of learning how to weave there were many other things happening! There was a loom on it's side for a little while that took a joint effort to put to rights. I caught Liz weaving in the corner, and I found several warps that were either wound or fixing to be wo ..read more
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