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Mixing It Up: Warping Complicated Color Orders

December 8, 2016December 3, 2015 by Liz

In the past week, I had two separate weavers email me about warping plaid and color-and-weave. Both of these weavers were struggling to get the results they wanted using the direct warping method. You could certainly warp simple stripes and a few of the color-and-weave combos, such as houndstooth or log cabin, easily using the direct …

The Design Process

October 20, 2021August 21, 2015 by Liz

Creating cloth requires both engineering and imagination, but most of all it requires that you play with your materials a lot. Getting to know yarn and how it behaves is learned by conducting lots of experiments. Designing is like a Mad Lib. The basic formula goes something like this: I want to make ____________ (project) …