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Dyeing and setting up loom

Yesterday my mom and I got a bit further with setting up the loom. I also dyed some burp clothes of Bess’ a cool teal colour....

First day with the loom

This weekend my mother and I had a mission. We wanted to setup the two looms we have between us with a project each. The smaller table loom will be used for 3 dinner-for-two’s to match some table mats my mother made 25 years ago. She still had the original colours lying around. We are
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Gifts for bump

Its getting close now – both Christmas, the New Year and the bump becoming a real life baby. The last thing is still too surreal to understand. I have been preparing and nesting for months but I still don’t really ‘get’ that there is going to be this little human being in our lives. But
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Weaving strips of jeans

See and download the full gallery on posterous   Today I have been continuing on a rather long-winded project. In the autumn I decided to recycle all these many pairs of jeans I had lying around that didn’t fit any more. It all started with a post on Grey Duckling asking ‘how would you refashion
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Portrait of a Textile Artist

Deborah Robson has agreed to let us do a portrait of her as a crafts person. We decided to call her a textile artist as her answer to the first question about what she sees as her main craft was: ‘spinning, weaving, knitting, crochet, braiding, sewing, basketry …’. Apart from textiles Deborah also loves books....