For me, weaving is always an adventure, sometimes because I head off into uncharted territory and sometimes because I end up in unintended places. But some weaves are adventures in themselves.
Rita Buchanan spins and weaves her own placemats, table runners, napkins, aprons, kitchen towels, bath towels (handwoven terry cloth!), shirts, jackets, blankets, pillow cases – in short, she lives in an environment of beautiful handmade cloth.
I can manage decent selvedges with most yarns except chenille. My chenille edges are downright sleazy!
We understand that when the fell line at the selvedges starts smiling, our selvedge warp threads are too loose. But when this happens mid-project, is it better to weight them at the back or tuck stuff into the offending areas on the cloth beam?
A reader has questions about caring for their handwoven tufted chenille cloth.
Sometimes when you are in the midst of something like Convergence you don't have a good sense of all that is going on.
