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Am having difficulty getting the segment Look What We Wove. Anyone else having this issue? Loved the
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Great episode, I am madly in love with the silk! I’m curious about keeping the hemstitch in its own little groups of merino and silk…should I have also thought of that when denting? I dented 1,2,1,2 all the way across in a 10 dent reed, but that meant I had an occasional dent with 1 merino and 1 silk. Would I have been better off keeping the merino and silk in their own dents? Or is it ok to separate those threads in a dent when hemstitching? I won’t redent at this point, but I’m curious for future projects. Thank you!
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Don’t worry about having merino and silk in the same dent. I hemstitch them in separate groups, even if they are in the same dent. They will be out of the reed before you twist the fringe, and they will full differently when washed. They might be different lengths after fulling, and it will make trimming them easier.
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I tried a collapse weave scarf using 8/2 rayon as the non-shrinker and very fine wool crepe overtwist yarn (15000 yds/lb) as the shrinker. Fun to weave, and after washing it collapsed fine, but the wool now shows teeny twisted kinks all over the scarf that stand up from the surface about 1/8′. Gives it some texture, but I am wondering if that is how it is supposed to be given the overtwist nature of the wool crepe. Perhaps I didn’t agitate it long enough in the sink or should have used a different wool yarn that was closer to 2/18 merino at 5000 yds/lb?
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Of all the lessons so far, I found this one challenging due to my loom acting up, the colours I picked (neutrals made it difficult to see the errors while weaving) and because my hands were so dry the silk kept catching. I was discouraged as there were weft errors I had missed (too late to fix) and two broken warp silk thread repairs. BUT after about 25-30 minutes of fulling (I was too gentle so it took longer), the results are amazing. Pictures attached 🙂 of one of my daughters who has claimed this scarf for herself). The kit and suggested warp length provided two scarves and a larger sampler with lots of leftover merino and silk. The beauty of collapse weave is that you can only see the errors if you know what you are looking for. Thank you, Jane, for creating this challenge for us!
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I share Anna’s question above about camel. Also alpaca and cashmere. I’ve been thinking about trying a collapsible scarf using cashmere and tussah. The master sett chart shows that they can both be set at 20 epi. Do you think the cashmere will full enough to result in a good collapse? I also happen to have a nice supply of alpaca and I’d like to know if that would be a good choice for this technique.
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Jane uses yarns she is familiar with and can quickly incorporate into the projects she is designing. In her earlier life as a production weaver – she developed a set of yarns that gave her all the possibility she needed when creating her cloth. We have the luxury of being able to experiment with different fibres and it’s up to us to sample them and see how they work in our world. Just have fun creating your own sample library and make lots of notes.
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