So I’m home. Got home last night. I was gone for 12 days and I am feeling it.
SOAR was good and tiring. I fell like I never stopped moving the whole week. I was up at 6AM every morning and was never to bed earlier than midnight – even after Maggie got there.
My workshop (3 day) class was with Sara Lamb. We were learning silk knotted pile. I do not consider myself a weaver. Most of the weaving I have done up until a week ago was on a loom with pedals and shafts and stuff. I have enjoyed rigid heddle weaving a little more but it still doesn’t move my heart. Plus I always end up thinking about spinnign while I am weaving. So, with all of that I didn’t have much hope to fall in love but wanted to learn the technique. Boy was I wrong.
The looms that most of the class used were the new Cricket Loom from Schacht. It worked beautifully for this method and most students opted to take the loom home with them because of the ease of use. I, on the other hand, always have to take the hard road and asked if I could work ont he copper pipe loom instead. I was curious about the warping and was interested in the looms construction. I wasn’t sorry i went that route. Now I can use the rigid heddle loom as well as an even simpler loom for this weaving.
The photo above shows my warped loom and Sarah getting ready to show Janel and I how to make the heddles. (Janel went with the copper loom too).
5 thoughts on “Dead Tired…with a cold”
Wow! Um, you’ve been tagged for a game of e-Tag. I’ll stop in to the shop when I can to hear the SOAR stories.
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What a wonderful experience! Thank you for the photos and the summary of all the many fiber activities! Someday I hope to go, but until then, thank you for letting me attend vicariously through your posts!
-Jessica
So, was this your second SOAR?
Great post, and I’m happy I got to meet you and Maggie! I’m in awe of all the weavers and keep telling myself that I do NOT have room in my ittybitty house for a loom! If I could just convince my husband to put a yurt in the backyard….
It sounds like a wonderful time and what great photos So sorry to have missed it , thanks for sharing it with us.
Ah, I was supposed to be in your workshop class but had to cancel at the last minute. I enjoyed seeing your pics, it takes the edge off of missing SOAR. Thanks, Lisa