tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-41697634107344211462024-02-18T21:27:06.321-08:00'the gift half understood'it all began as an artistic exploration of the Incarnation...LouLou@theLoomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08691202161688742373noreply@blogger.comBlogger501125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4169763410734421146.post-62460386791879485292023-04-27T11:06:00.001-07:002023-04-27T11:06:04.849-07:00Lawks! What a Time Has Passed<img id="id_dad7_6fc6_cc25_d55a" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/drive-viewer/AFGJ81qWd5ivlzMp__vPHjHs-L7sQUZK-1ML_OazOY6RXfrOzzUEP70xpt8AZTEluXp3EJprXvSRlfA908b0WyCmUi9RpzGf" alt="" title="" tooltip="" style="width: 746px; height: auto;"><br>Shrine Maquette 2 in progress….<div><br></div><div><img id="id_c1ac_2362_c154_aecc" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/drive-viewer/AFGJ81pjndszO_GYqWfiQN3K7Rqk9Othw2wDGtOLRyWG42oHKxFXKnrIku2bWxBkathtVgpwAAcHdTkW1_kvuLQH4fm_URwq" alt="" title="" tooltip="" style="width: 746px; height: auto;"><br><br>The original Shrine, which was lost, stolen, or strayed in 2018. </div><div><br></div><div>I had to decide whether I really wanted to remake it - and perhaps the passage of time helped with that - but I still want to make a full size version, and remaking the maquette offered an opportunity to do things slightly differently; move the ‘seam’ to inside the cleft, add more texture etc. Life rather got in the way - The Great Pestilence, redundancy, family health problems, and so forth - but after a break from the PhD until last November I am back in the zone, enjoying weaving (and writing, surprisingly). </div><div><br></div><div>One of the better distractions was sailing in my little boat, ‘Sparrow’, which I am about to resume after the winter break (and some fettling). Warps of a different kind!</div><div><img id="id_9f23_b601_ef16_2972" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/drive-viewer/AFGJ81owB60bOeW1GUczka5YxSgvkt7QS7kS8KeII1nAh97SjLoy7d4I6IFSER_dcZRRT-VNHTYqCuF2PHP1zVu-NYl6zafG-g" alt="" title="" tooltip="" style="width: 746px; height: auto;"><br><br><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div>LouLou@theLoomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08691202161688742373noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4169763410734421146.post-8500097949547040272021-03-29T05:10:00.001-07:002021-03-29T05:10:54.047-07:00I Gave a Lecture....<a href="https://youtu.be/Z9r9oYqKgPg">https://youtu.be/Z9r9oYqKgPg</a> <div><br></div><div>For the Friends of Tower Hamlets Cemetery Park. </div>LouLou@theLoomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08691202161688742373noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4169763410734421146.post-30264640329869931192020-11-14T06:45:00.001-08:002020-11-14T06:45:11.716-08:00Memorial Pillar: First* Panel*actually the fifth in the design, but it’s all a bit arbitrary. It’s certainly the first to be woven.<div><br></div><div><img id="id_617_6f98_7029_4799" src="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/VUdiqVIzn1_FS9kHx_Hc64WQ-dq551psxbGYJEueMjvFn0FEYdwr6wB1CQy0-2k" alt="" title="" tooltip="" style="width: 746px; height: auto;"><br><br>I’m not sure why it looks wonky - it’s not - must have been the angle I held the iPad at. The original tiny panel is blu-tacked to the reed bar for colour reference. The enlarged panel photo hangs over the cloth beam. </div><div><br></div><div><img id="id_757f_a918_73cc_221f" src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/3TniDEdw0_b1lESkXIFwzjXG9RSFFdko34gHFA11TznrX8tfOW2tk2Jydk0q5ew" alt="" title="" tooltip="" style="width: 746px; height: auto;"><br><br>There will a lot of ressaut added after weaving to soften some of the edges, and add the detail shown up in the enlargement.</div><div><br></div><div>There’s wool, silk, linen, acrylic, and nettle in the mixes - which I have narrowed down to 19 basic ones, with extra threads added in or substituted as required; all the sampling whilst in Folkestone stood me in good stead to shorten the ‘palette process’ as I call it.</div><div><br></div><div>I’m enjoying it tremendously! Even more so as, having loaned the Ashford loom to a friend yesterday, I have more space in the studio, and had a good tidy up this morning, making it an even more pleasurable Happy Place. It is pouring with rain, and due to do so for the rest of today and all daylight hours tomorrow; good weaving and writing weather!</div>LouLou@theLoomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08691202161688742373noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4169763410734421146.post-89132130066321468672020-11-09T02:11:00.001-08:002020-11-09T02:11:17.985-08:00Untangling: A Parable<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">Once upon a time there was a weaver - let’s call her FrouFrou. People often commented that she must be very patient, being a weaver, but she wasn’t really. One day, FrouFrou bought some delicious, smooth, shiny silk yarn for her latest project. This yarn, as many do, came in a skein. FrouFrou knew, as do all weavers, and many knitters (and her Nannan before her, when all yarn came in skeins), that skeins must be wound into balls before you can use the yarn. Horrid tanglements ensue if this rule is forgotten. Nevertheless, because FrouFrou was excited about her latest project, and because the yarn was lovely, and because she was impatient (see above), FrouFrou hung the skein over the end of the loom, and started taking lengths from it as required...</p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">Project over, the mare’s nest was put aside in a box. Yesterday, FrouFrou needed the yarn for another project, and decided that the Great Untangling must commence...</p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">It took two hours of slow, patient (despite note above) winding and unknotting, but in the end, FrouFrou had a properly wound cheese of silk, still shiny, smooth and delicious. </p><p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">And the silk goes into a weft with other yarns, and the new project continues. </p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica; min-height: 12.7px;"><img id="id_934f_c3fe_e048_d9db" src="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/1SFwO9aREC6e-XueQHZJTrF8an_8b9Dsih9C-TqsKdiNHoJKhB7-dNsHPMcnZAs" alt="" title="" tooltip="" style="width: 359px; height: auto;"><img id="id_f384_a93_bc6b_425b" src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/II_Y0cKBpDuoR2bH3nA4GxDcHAG-2un7u4afQN05U6aBHNi1y-_G1JC-FmYwttE" alt="" title="" tooltip="" style="width: 361px; height: auto;"><img id="id_9a5d_1032_b348_4d01" src="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/8WQ0aO6ydEM3h5_DyWrQzHZ4yCIxWFfdqUXsrfsggriB8beaf0n0TdpKq0scyLw" alt="" title="" tooltip="" style="width: 720px; height: auto;"><br><br><br>The meaning of this parable?</p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">Doing something properly in the beginning will save time in the long run, <span style="font-weight: bold;">but</span>, even if mistakes are made, wrong decisions taken, and tanglements ensue, with patient, loving attention, individual beauty and order can be restored, and then become part of a group that work together to make something new.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">As Kiki Dee so wisely put it:-</p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica; min-height: 12.7px;"><br></p> LouLou@theLoomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08691202161688742373noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4169763410734421146.post-60157475149713336862020-11-06T02:00:00.001-08:002020-11-06T02:00:57.037-08:00‘Weaving Against the Wound’There were some issues uploading the last post - it was actually written on October 31st, and more progress has been made since then:-<div><br></div><div><img id="id_1b9a_b512_279d_7462" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/_SHFQjbGQtiZyIr-OruIDly-lP4_cXVRe8QgvaHyexk09EUIq1voNz0RpH7uGNA" alt="" title="" tooltip="" style="width: 417px; height: auto;"><img id="id_9026_345e_defa_ea7b" src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/UlKhuzk2WgJQ7sy3Lk9YbIgig0F7KnLWlgeB3RUYDrXXez87MSp6AgrQ-sElAnM" alt="" title="" tooltip="" style="width: 738px; height: auto;"><br><br>The improvised warping board (as I can’t use the warping mill at WD at present) and chained warp - linen from Weavers Bazaar.</div><div><br></div><div><img id="id_b1c4_bada_9bb1_bf2f" src="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/55E5u0iL4FW7m9kuqnB0ypPASuiZXrXS9jzEkNzHAzXB8mAIf8jHsbuCC3Bf6_Y" alt="" title="" tooltip="" style="width: 746px; height: auto;"><br><br>Tied on, waste weft and double half hitches.</div><div><br></div><div><img id="id_9275_83d_9925_cffe" src="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/DYM2uBc4k-f-mh7ZSJ8WjWzdvjGLJKkZdVhPGxiKFla3JfasWCo789Sr7HVRnqY" alt="" title="" tooltip="" style="width: 746px; height: auto;"><br><br>Aphraminta Splodge inspecting the large scale print from which I traced the design lines for the first panel; it will hang near the loom for colour reference. I upped the contrast and saturation before printing to make the areas easier to delineate. I am fortunate to have a very good printing company nearby (Lollipop Chichester, formerly ProCopy) who have done a lot for me over the years. They have established a very good system for no contact for the time being; they also give a lollipop with each order collected! I’m saving mine for when I’ve woven an inch all across. </div><div>The woven colouring will be more subtle. Now to stitch the cartoon to the waste weft and make a start. </div><div><br></div><div>Weaving is my creative protest against the wounds in the world, and my affirmation of, and prayer for good order. Let the reader understand.<br><br><br></div>LouLou@theLoomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08691202161688742373noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4169763410734421146.post-2738473698617966812020-11-06T01:43:00.001-08:002020-11-06T01:43:25.801-08:00Wot Did & Wot DoingJune was the month for Registration Presentations, and then I needed to make swift progress in completing <i>‘Nefesh’</i> and ‘<i>Neshamah’ </i>ready for an exhibition I at the Brewery Tap Project Space in Folkestone at the end of September. <div><img id="id_bbb9_98f5_ae0e_eca7" src="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/DCSs4B3s2SzJoJdeT-eGzdjZqZcpeU7IfQQoLnrda9QCK9Nyd2o5GB5W0Tnv-jc" alt="" title="" tooltip="" style="width: 270px; height: auto;"><img id="id_3eb9_1f88_a451_de7b" src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/99SnTadSrRedPSwvNtwgg-fMK-tNcJoKTMOttusvjdFxRSkycfI3UWvlfL9bAWc" alt="" title="" tooltip="" style="width: 273px; height: auto;"><br><br><br>Next up is the writing of my Literature Review, so I have been away from the loom. Until yesterday. A bereavement during the week (coming after several this year) meant that I simply could not immerse myself in writing theoretically about grief and loss for a little while, and need to ‘weave it out’. While invigilating the exhibition I had time to do some sampling for <i>‘Memorial Pillar (for Diana)’</i>, the maquette of which was part of what I was showing. I had realised that I would not have time (with chaplaincy work and a LitRev to do) to make the next three shrines before our next exhibition at the end of January, so decided to go with <i>‘Pillar’ </i>instead.</div><div><img id="id_3677_cc19_d216_c57b" src="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/7HN86ABWGeJO6q_BUVyU47JHqhWVQG53UDXD_o2Rm11uKT2GjYu-JpLSC_beDyg" alt="" title="" tooltip="" style="width: 193px; height: auto;"><br><br>I wound the warp yesterday evening, and today is loom dressing; sleying the reed with a soundtrack of ‘70s Genesis. The finished piece will be 97cm high, woven sideways, so, at my usual sett (4epc, woven over doubles) that is 388 ends. I’ve wound a warp long enough to do two of the shrines on afterwards (and yes, there will be a lot of retying to do between cutting off this one and resuming).</div><div><br></div><div>There is something about weaving and preparing to weave that both soothes, and embodies hope for the future, so it is a good activity in the face of loss - which is one of the contentions of my thesis after all. </div>LouLou@theLoomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08691202161688742373noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4169763410734421146.post-10039314040145380622020-06-12T06:22:00.001-07:002020-06-12T06:27:10.132-07:00Bad Habits<img id="id_8997_dfa9_d07_7b5b" src="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/aWzl-qkkA2ZDUSqDKwzHdIdRprT-hcGIEhXNlfIXvMohn16PMhJyEYRAX4betjw" alt="" title="" tooltip="" style="width: 400px; height: auto;"><img id="id_af8e_90e1_1d13_2b5e" src="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/FO3CqugV39XXDmZkY4xFKZv6QKvMtHfMV3WusEDHRHxBvwXxpgJIRtXwU3UnlPU" alt="" title="" tooltip="" style="width: 399px; height: auto;"><div><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);"><br></span>I’m not going to list all my bad habits here, but you will see from a comparison of the upper and lower photos how much weaving I have done, and how I have neither taken photographs nor posted updates. How will my devoted followers know what I am up to? 🤣<br>I started on the thumbprint section of ‘Neshamah’ yesterday, having experimented and softened the blend by adding two strands of the grey weft. The sections are too narrow, and the sett too wide, to be able to ‘halo’ the transition between the two areas, so this was a good compromise to make the difference less stark. I’m now only 35cm from the top of the weaving of this shrine; after another 10cm I will switch across to ‘Nefesh’, weave up to the same level, and then wind on for the last time. After all the vicissitudes with the warp, I will be perilously close to the top of it by the end. I’m hoping to get away without needle weaving (I had to resort to that at the top of ‘Lament’ all those years ago, and it was not fun!). In my calculations for the next warp (for ‘Ruach’, ‘Hayyah’ and ‘Yechidah’) I have allowed a lot more waste.</div><div><br></div><div>A dear friend has been running a quarantine art class over the last few weeks, and it has been very good to rediscover a drawing element to my practice. I have been working on a large (28x23cm) ink drawing of one of my small (5x4.5cm) stones - one of the five stones which are the core forms of the upcoming body of work. I rarely like my drawings, but am pleased with this:-</div><div><img id="id_2b08_177d_d66f_286c" src="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/9c8mzz7CQuPsCTJw3-60aBktrAdtMT8nHkjZ-N7NFg0E20hmbwNzOwznPYCFOjc" alt="" title="" tooltip="" style="width: 256px; height: auto;"><br>I might even frame it.<br><br></div>LouLou@theLoomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08691202161688742373noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4169763410734421146.post-9957990791732405502020-05-22T01:30:00.001-07:002020-05-22T01:30:14.295-07:00Outdoors!<img id="id_15c_9d3_34b4_70c8" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/wNIlOOnUSGtnHqxcyMXcH-2yo7hu7XONxq3NRPN1pmyubjpZUKMM3vDYn5zgwfE" alt="" title="" tooltip="" style="width: 405px; height: auto;"><br>The lurid cartoon handprint is now covered up, much to my relief; it was necessary, but somehow vaguely irritating. I have been enjoying using <i>ressaut</i> which is a new technique to me, but renders the image in exactly the way I want.<div><br></div><div>One of the ways in which my research has been impacted by the pandemic situation is that I realised that my vague notion of ‘displaying my artwork in a virtual landscape if I have time’ has a greater priority, and more urgency, than anticipated. The second realisation, close on its heels, was that I lacked sufficient visual data to create said landscape (let alone the skills, software, and computer power). In order to remedy at least the first lack, I headed off to Knowlton in Dorset - one of my chosen locations - with picnic, iPad and doglet (for scale 😆). It was a stunning day; odd to be driving on a motorway again after two months, but delicious to travel through heath and woodland on my way to the site. When I arrived, shock! horror! other people! This was a slight deterrent to filming and photography, but reassuring that, subject to permission from English Heritage to exhibit, there is sufficient footfall of visitors to see the sculptures.</div><div><br></div><div><img id="id_a8ee_17a3_f997_abb" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/ToWb7MRpswEZlojxJ5uXDJok-JBKxXySVWkn6MKD12GwtOL-9a9YEnFyeyI40qs" alt="" title="" tooltip="" style="width: 410px; height: auto;"><img id="id_4c75_ea57_e8a8_a974" src="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/reFTS_v3k4kqLJqmHoZZXOaPtm88ePElVtxjnEXIZo52ipbNmaojJzzTe2aHJBg" alt="" title="" tooltip="" style="width: 409px; height: auto;"><br><br><br><br>Holding my iPad (in video mode) in front of me I walked the perimeter, then the henge, ditch and plateau; ever decreasing circles and ever decreasing footwear - it seemed appropriate to walk barefoot and labyrinth style somehow. I am sure people thought me most odd, but I was ready to claim ‘artistic immunity’ if challenged.</div><div><br></div><div><img id="id_4323_a13b_14d3_c7ea" src="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/gs9C50W3K-NEXBnhKjauKGqifK-DGcquExCTbjQTgwbGUbczSQawMjptsQaAxx0" alt="" title="" tooltip="" style="width: 418px; height: auto;"><br><br>Real tea - standards must not be dropped!</div><div><br></div><div>I now have many photos and lots of video. The next challenge is to work with it! </div>LouLou@theLoomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08691202161688742373noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4169763410734421146.post-73418167131746901742020-05-16T10:27:00.001-07:002020-05-16T10:29:47.127-07:00 Variety (and sparkle)<img id="id_545f_b62e_ef5b_ded3" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/BgSBBLMXWrcHTKfM49S3tQUTthO0vvr-cUGVrF0RlOqYRLeMCdS2-EVn8_XX9eA" alt="" title="" tooltip="" style="width: 524px; height: auto;"><br>Four types of texture going on here; weaving over singles, doubles with two different weft mixes, and quadruples.<div><br></div><div><br> <div><img id="id_248b_bd3c_865f_f230" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/3TGDCAwlqgdc59xp1FavcLWlvZsf71cxtEF7VmlgEIyPzcXekLY-ulF3eia6ZCg" alt="" title="" tooltip="" style="width: 523px; height: auto;"><br>The hand on the cartoon is rather startling, but you see the beginning of the <i>ressaut</i> interpretation.</div><div><br></div><div><br><img id="id_49e5_20a7_450f_f16f" src="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/IBwnM2OAWVfBLbcxF_0sqFnj1j9X6XzqFEqsshppmaHpJtUlx9ZE0zbncs7--u0" alt="" title="" tooltip="" style="width: 524px; height: auto;"><br><br></div><div>This is the left hand rendered in <i>ressaut </i>on ‘Nefesh’.</div></div>LouLou@theLoomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08691202161688742373noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4169763410734421146.post-11542937990677950052020-05-12T14:37:00.001-07:002020-05-12T14:37:04.261-07:00Ouch!I sat down at Lemminkäinen for an early morning session yesterday, only to have to cease and desist after about ten minutes because of excruciating pain in my lower back. I have two prolapsed discs, and permanent sciatica as a result, but I can usually manage the issue without too many difficulties. Yesterday I just had to admit defeat and hobble to bed and the foetal position. I consoled myself watching some weaving videos until the painkillers kicked in and I fell asleep. Thankfully, the Chaplaincy part of my work is all remote and iPad based at present, so I managed a Zoom conference later, and I can type lying down sideways. LouLou will not be defeated! <div><br></div><div>Much more mobile today, so at intervals I made an attempt on disentangling an old (2009!) rigid heddle project. At some point in all my moves, the warp had become unwound from the back beam. I had begun to work on it at the weekend, but the snarl up made me <b>snarl</b>; sometimes a second person would be so useful to have around! This afternoon I had a brainwave:</div><div><br></div><div><img id="id_a153_3594_a524_915d" src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/VmJ2h-Im1muZicLinCeZ97BwyZF-EhVb8EMMsbDCZ6wIUJo-w4dLmoTmF2aOoAk" alt="" title="" tooltip="" style="width: 402px; height: auto;"><br><br>Even tension for winding on by careful use of matching mugs tied on with pieces of old sheet; then it was a cinch.</div><div><br></div><div><img id="id_4c8f_3c2f_e87d_d486" src="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/bYTvezB7LX1P7t2FruakhpcG-Erh6KyXtI7KD6vXR4QiKRzss6_bdjwcWW34exI" alt="" title="" tooltip="" style="width: 377px; height: auto;"><br><br>All ready to continue with Leno.</div><div><br></div><div>I chose this yarn long before I encountered Yehuda Amichai, but in reclaiming it, I remembered this <font face="Times"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">from his poem ‘</span><span style="font-style: italic; -webkit-font-kerning: none;">In My Life, on My Life’</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">:-</span></font></div>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><font face="Times"> 5</font></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><font face="Times">I know how slight are the threads that tie me to my joy</font></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><font face="Times">but from those slight threads I have woven strong clothing,</font></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><font face="Times">a kind of soft armour, the warp and weft of joy</font></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><font face="Times">to help me cover my nakedness and protect me.</font></span></p><div><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><br></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">I did a small piece for my 2013 exhibition inspired by those words:-</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><br></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><img id="id_1a5d_98fb_1b48_538a" src="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/o3zGuAF4iz6uTdXRnZVWILb9AqkRqdprawQFWJRD1JSlsuJzO_j-N5U7gvPc7o4" alt="" title="" tooltip="" style="width: 324px; height: auto;"><img id="id_c031_f708_da3f_c730" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/HvYfuhx9aEwKyVExiX2kaWfrQSge96keJ-dezxOVgwv_IytMJwAt7rbtHobMyIw" alt="" title="" tooltip="" style="width: 179px; height: auto;"><br><br></span>Somehow, the reclaimed shawl has the same vibe associated with it now, a ‘warp and weft of joy’. It should not take long to finish, and being so airy, I will be able to wear it in even the hottest weather.<br><br><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div>LouLou@theLoomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08691202161688742373noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4169763410734421146.post-74902258740834166612020-05-10T02:25:00.001-07:002020-05-10T02:27:17.023-07:00And there’s more.....<img id="id_4bb4_41dd_41bf_aac6" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/wv-8WJu7hHMdZCwLsOi4fsMMeRcJXt-j6syTuyfAH957NZwMtq7-3QcxmDQnLF0" alt="" title="" tooltip="" style="width: 492px; height: auto;"><br><br> <div>More textured progress yesterday, between domestic matters, Zoom drawing class and remote movie night with a pal. </div><div>On Wednesday I had occasion to go into my garage for a ladder (guess who locked herself out when she went to take photos of wildflowers on the green? 🤣)</div><div><br></div><div><img id="id_829d_2ef2_fced_36b2" src="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/Zeu0XzjzJ5gNcwEloWPc-ZuN-Gf83lsWBiK-f9DFndNuAxjfxqlQycXNhGjqjN4" alt="" title="" tooltip="" style="width: 234px; height: auto;"><img id="id_ef29_fc21_e3f9_5a56" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/GsKZ1ohpIMcOiTtFNejC-CK-UVLfYFdaUB0s2JRlBuHw5GWVqgubaxFXzpk-Iv4" alt="" title="" tooltip="" style="width: 312px; height: auto;"><br><br>While out there I rediscovered more of the yarn stash - the stuff for general weaving or knitting rather than tapestry.</div><div>I may have a play with some Saori type weaving on my Knitter’s Loom as a Sunday treat.<br><br><br></div>LouLou@theLoomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08691202161688742373noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4169763410734421146.post-73592077572281080552020-05-08T13:43:00.001-07:002020-05-08T15:40:24.744-07:00I Forgot it was a Bank Holiday....and spent a lot of time at both desk (with chaplain hat on) and loom. This is where I started today:-<div><br></div><div><img id="id_5f0b_9a8a_326_9e36" src="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/GUZAid7O9lLtWou9TRXcWDxV_1oLCVpaC7lOWx0WAlFO4BKIpupkpz_GQYAooUI" alt="" title="" tooltip="" style="width: 440px; height: auto;"><br><br>with ‘Nefesh’ shown for comparison:-</div><div><br></div><div><img id="id_f479_16ac_8ee7_f3d8" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/57n0-cZiHy5djs7CVyU19MgJ9isDNFu9ucF08sJlxyYUmxuTrS6Kx-034LHZR8Q" alt="" title="" tooltip="" style="width: 443px; height: auto;"><br><br>And this is where I reached, when I could not feel my left leg any more and deemed it time to stop weaving and stand up. </div><div>I usually set a timer, but I was engrossed in both the texture I was creating, and the music on Radio 3 (James Macmillan’s birthday concert)</div><div><br></div><div><img id="id_be38_9506_6444_6a28" src="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/DvCMgiLn_liQ6xLR5TBp9W1WyP22I6Pxp9sJ8_eVFLInsVPieAPkDirDqh_Ne1I" alt="" title="" tooltip="" style="width: 444px; height: auto;"><br><br>I did also make a plateful of macaroons and went to the ‘party’ on the green for a while. Such gallivanting!</div>LouLou@theLoomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08691202161688742373noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4169763410734421146.post-5035558320722710742020-05-05T15:42:00.001-07:002020-05-05T15:43:33.925-07:00Warp Speed!I’ve been continuing to make good progress; I’m actually finding it difficult to tear myself away from the loom to do other things (and I still have work to do for the Chaplaincy, so cannot be in the studio <i>all </i>the time). And I have to eat. And rest my back. <div><br></div><div>This is where I left ‘Nefesh’ last night:-</div><div><br></div><div><img id="id_3eb7_c1fb_a87e_af61" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/Vbn0v2c2ig9i0KG0sTrv3RhZ0XlS9k0Q5EIJOJSR8NR-eOgeuG8G1WpaQ9Edt5I" alt="" title="" tooltip="" style="width: 389px; height: auto;"><br><br>And where I got to today, at the stage where I soon need to wind on:-</div><div><br></div><div><img id="id_ccd9_5132_b901_5a68" src="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/_P7AF9Dzz930p0hxac0_vOiHDb2UU6WbpxVDK1K1kvdBu3qLaDEjRsJACNmQCJI" alt="" title="" tooltip="" style="width: 388px; height: auto;"><br><br><i>But</i>, because ‘Nefesh’ shares the loom with ‘Neshamah’, they need to be at the same level before I do the winding; I have therefore moved across to the latter:-</div><div><br></div><div><img id="id_f043_73c0_c209_b858" src="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/80k5zvuteYPSAwEyH0_JtXdIcqo9tQdy3QmrzPy2GA2vn6dpIqkNkUOTmKiCsw8" alt="" title="" tooltip="" style="width: 385px; height: auto;"><br><br>It is just possible to see the edge of ‘Nefesh’, but would have been more useful to show them side by side, so you can see what needs to be done.</div><div><br></div><div>I have a prism hanging in the window of my studio, as well as a solar powered rainbow maker which fills the whole flat with dancing rainbows when the sun shines. Today the prism cast light onto some leftover warp:-</div><div><br></div><div><img id="id_b0f8_179_77a9_f97e" src="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/RmY-WvOnaYGjoU8TdiZ273mJxovSeVpO80xtyyOxIlLpMH01Pjeqc3zm73ZsyLk" alt="" title="" tooltip="" style="width: 382px; height: auto;"><br><br><br></div>LouLou@theLoomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08691202161688742373noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4169763410734421146.post-47504368977376471332020-05-04T12:07:00.001-07:002020-05-04T12:07:58.703-07:00Still Here, and All ThereGeode II (aka ‘Blingy’) is off the loom and waiting to more beads added before I draw the warps up and present it to the client - probably in July when she is down this way again, but possibly via Royal Mail if her course at WD is cancelled. I shall make no other mention of The Thing.<div><br></div><div>I started at UCA/UAL in September last year, and writing my registration document took some time, but I passed, and am officially registered for MPhil /PhD, part-time over five years. It is hard to realise that the first year is half over! Alongside new sketchbook work for the practice side of the thesis I am going to include the Identity Shrines as a trial run in the locations that I plan to use for the final artworks. After some vicissitudes with Lemminkaïnen - who I think felt rather neglected - and with assistance from a fellow Varpapuu owner in Wisconsin, I was able to solve the tension and treadle problems, and am now weaving at great speed, aided by Radio 3 concerts and my classical playlist. My lovely Boy gave me a really good Bluetooth speaker for my birthday, so the sound quality is much improved, hoorah! As I type this, I am listening to an archive recording of Le Nozze di Figaro (my favourite opera; I listened to a CD of it while I was in labour 28 years ago).</div><div><br></div><div>Here is the progress made on the Nefesh shrine in the last week:-</div><div><br></div><div><img id="id_69f1_7dda_f21e_b5ea" src="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/43DRjS_AhS4e4AFKX1iTIt1FOB06pZj7yoYFTScRcLBMzDC7yWHLIS19vzeAuN8" alt="" title="" tooltip="" style="width: 465px; height: auto;"><br><br>A maquette for a large piece to be made once the shrines are off the loom:-</div><div><br></div><div><img id="id_3365_d430_104e_dbde" src="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/Jw45eXV-4P_lIe12KWskBgM-mW6OUD9nyyQ0OR8FNu3q7SJEGsFeM6UwyfLS7LQ" alt="" title="" tooltip="" style="width: 354px; height: auto;"><br><br><img id="id_aec8_309a_e2e7_ccb3" src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/dtt7w5bIO0apdYNItGqPB20sBAqQ3TmLoK1jVBRrj4rTUHcFBCmMsGRHo0Uqevs" alt="" title="" tooltip="" style="width: 352px; height: auto;"><br><br>And a bonus picture of Aphraminta Splodge guarding valuable tapestry samples:-</div><div><br></div><div><img id="id_6e47_c4ab_1773_5d30" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/L0pGEdSBiddAIlGTOLrRRbdqjRHqjN0HerG6pgVkMux2biGVzAuQrVTIeQgui3k" alt="" title="" tooltip="" style="width: 351px; height: auto;"><br><br><br></div><div><br></div><div><br><br></div>LouLou@theLoomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08691202161688742373noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4169763410734421146.post-82978812156318831382020-05-04T12:04:00.001-07:002020-05-04T12:04:38.748-07:00LouLou@theLoomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08691202161688742373noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4169763410734421146.post-852805869975099662019-07-16T04:53:00.001-07:002019-07-16T04:58:31.877-07:00Experiments<img id="id_515d_2cec_e87c_bdfb" src="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/QXnTAXIUQbi8hdQhFpB9Czi2VuobtuoCrJWIPy_4Wd2WhHoRW8yaw7FPJZE" alt="" title="" tooltip="" style="width: 314px; height: auto;"><br>On the May bank holiday I visited Lindisfarne (Holy Island) and picked up this miniature standing stone (it’s lying down here, but it really does stand)<br><img id="id_eff5_d5cc_d32a_5bc3" src="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/Vq4QHwcre4yRs_ciabQ5WnqDLZJ6V-AbhkFw6fwJuMOxqZfynrtvPXnRyyE" alt="" title="" tooltip="" style="width: 308px; height: auto;"><br>With a view to scaling it up in the future, I increased the fossil mark to fit on the 4"x4" loom, and wove with the bone needle I made on a day course at the Weald and Downland Museum (using flint tools!)<br><img id="id_93fc_1b18_3970_23c3" src="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/nXOTLCKpDr5N8sag4KD7bR5KL3UwuSxVEQuk-LwjkmFff36PvmIVqu9BSrM" alt="" title="" tooltip="" style="width: 379px; height: auto;"><br><br><img id="id_ff04_a111_b89b_7015" src="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/jfPy863n0IeBF1Wu5HF3W9crMPCQVwpQNpbjgQQg6n47NilF9oojeDWlhvg" alt="" title="" tooltip="" style="width: 384px; height: auto;"><br>Second version, with the mark woven at 90 degrees to the warp, giving a better curve.<div><br></div><div>I plan to use Ritual Landscapes and Standing Stones as the ‘model’ for my PhD studio practice in the first instance, so this all feeds into it.</div>LouLou@theLoomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08691202161688742373noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4169763410734421146.post-20925026148105182022019-07-15T05:33:00.001-07:002019-07-15T05:33:35.843-07:00Hoorah!<img id="id_9bb1_c98a_434c_654c" src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/TQJFdUuyA_kKlXS2WNlLzXPca1UXWVVbpp_T_FHVPwdtJ1P9BwASvBpkML4" alt="" title="" tooltip="" style="width: 746px; height: auto;"><br><br> <div>Splodge inspects Lemminkäinen!</div><div><br></div><div>More work on Geode II today - now on panel 7 of 14. There is a new urgency to this as (drumroll......)</div><div>I have been offered (and accepted) a place at UCA Farnham for a practice-based PhD, starting in the autumn. </div><div><br></div><div><img id="id_c6d7_d479_553d_ff54" src="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/mFPPaeW-kART1CxCEI4IxYegldPswdoMHSIj8HxTMfV9rG6in_3jAeq5yo8" alt="" title="" tooltip="" style="width: 746px; height: auto;"><br><br>I am, of course, extremely excited, but slightly apprehensive too. I will need to be very organised and use all my time wisely; this has not always been my strongpoint! </div>LouLou@theLoomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08691202161688742373noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4169763410734421146.post-43391215731926615702019-04-14T06:49:00.001-07:002019-04-14T06:49:40.188-07:00Back in the Groove**(=studio)<div><br></div><div><img id="id_f765_e811_54cf_7578" src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/evmOuABW1DzQapZn9l42KKWHCDViJZW_GRc7BjwNMk7L_d6s_eZ1IIEqOQI" alt="" title="" tooltip="" style="width: 192px; height: auto; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; display: block;"><br><img id="id_31e2_8b4d_aa9b_eb3f" src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/dRo1grIj0WElYz0QSOGiDec4rJn-WyOE4Fw6_nJzJ9p7piYExdt3CoLs3zY" alt="" title="" tooltip="" style="width: 192px; height: auto; margin: 4px; float: left; display: block;"><br><br><br><img id="id_d338_bad2_6cf6_eb3b" src="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/9_yCbYJ6BskeHWiAlvZ9LYmFR_GfGR6SRoJVRoa9YTJ1YBTeLj4PU2C4A_A" alt="" title="" tooltip="" style="width: 192px; height: auto; margin: 4px; float: right; display: block;"><br><br>I have acquired a new studio assistant; Tapestrybrits Aphraminta Splodge joined us here on 22nd March. She and Doglet are each coming to terms with the existence of the other.</div><div><br></div><div>I have spent quite some time rearranging and streamlining things in both the studio and the rest of my home, including the creation of a writing nook. You may remember that a couple of years ago I applied to do a funded PhD and was unsuccessful (or maybe I did not blog about it); I have rewritten the proposal (hence the writing nook), sent it in <b>three weeks</b> before the deadline (I <i>know</i>, I can’t believe it either!), and I have been invited for interview on May 1st! I am delighted to have progressed a stage further than last time (at a different institution). </div><div><br></div><div>With one thing and another, my studio time had been constrained, and not very productive in terms of new ideas, <b>BUT</b> I have just had three really good studio days (and another one tomorrow); new work done, and loads of ideas to develop further. I love the creative process; when choosing to be disciplined and do something, <i>anything, </i>leads to so many possibilities. </div>LouLou@theLoomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08691202161688742373noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4169763410734421146.post-9616169066642076732019-01-23T05:16:00.001-08:002019-01-23T05:16:11.332-08:00Oops!<img id="id_ba2c_f9e_bd2f_87ce" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/--5m61-wIFek/XEhpGb5E3UI/AAAAAAAABVM/6cnF1YIlQxcYCuWXG-HZrlbsbQuv33DdACHMYCw/s5000/%255BUNSET%255D" alt="" title="" tooltip="" style="width: 302px; height: auto;"><br>A scaled down phot that you you can actually see!LouLou@theLoomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08691202161688742373noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4169763410734421146.post-45966642316542198572019-01-23T05:12:00.001-08:002019-01-23T05:12:28.052-08:00Lavington Plantation, West Sussex<img id="id_df29_9c9a_73f9_85a1" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-UbsBM91CrYw/XEhoOjo5cCI/AAAAAAAABVE/7N8mXIHKnNs336JvTmcMOn5csDinwmlwACHMYCw/s5000/%255BUNSET%255D" alt="" title="" tooltip="" style="width: 746px; height: auto;"><br>Another tiny (5 x 5 cm) tapestry from the Purl and Loop Wee Weaver. I am still experimenting with textures and map making. I am teaching two courses at West Dean later in the year; April 17th using a tiny loom as a sketchbook, and July 10th making a tapestry cuff.<div><br></div><div>‘Geode II’ is still in progress on the Ashford Loom (aka Aragorn)........</div>LouLou@theLoomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08691202161688742373noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4169763410734421146.post-19958966999642635002018-09-07T01:43:00.001-07:002018-09-07T01:43:56.897-07:00Penbury Knoll<img id="id_4cf_2897_7f10_ca31" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-ISMhNcQm1DM/W5I6SgELhfI/AAAAAAAABUo/xIGH56U-V00rVQuVEq2ODksPi1rUCSRpwCHMYCw/s5000/%255BUNSET%255D" alt="" title="" tooltip="" style="width: 353px; height: auto;"><br><br><img id="id_5dec_62c1_b60d_6154" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-P3i-B_t744E/W5I6SmyoUaI/AAAAAAAABUs/-lbg647OdqklS3NqBmnl2kipj89J5HvWACHMYCw/s5000/%255BUNSET%255D" alt="" title="" tooltip="" style="width: 353px; height: auto;"><br><br> <div>As promised, the first trial in my ‘Ritual Landscape’ series; the focal point for Neolithic burials that is Penbury Knoll in Dorset. The tapestry is 5cm square and includes Ghiordes Knots for the trees, soumak for the paths, verdigris copper wire for contour lines, and beads to mark the high point (hidden in the trees) and a spring. Next up, Gussage Down.</div><div>I am building up a textural vocabulary to make pocket maps of sacred places - the ‘thin places’ of the Celts.</div>LouLou@theLoomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08691202161688742373noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4169763410734421146.post-85597951818802755202018-09-05T07:31:00.001-07:002018-09-05T07:31:23.156-07:00Things I Have Been Doing Since June<br /><br /><center><a href='https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-csc9RXaRreE/W4_ouNc-m-I/AAAAAAAABUY/WR_iuXUZk4k321mo-y9ZIdPe6QiSeLNrACHMYCw/s288/iphone_photo.jpg'><img src='https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-csc9RXaRreE/W4_ouNc-m-I/AAAAAAAABUY/WR_iuXUZk4k321mo-y9ZIdPe6QiSeLNrACHMYCw/s288/iphone_photo.jpg' border='0' width='180' height='180' style='margin:5px'></a></center><br /><br />1. Finding interesting images for journal (see above)<br />2. Doing important Chaplain things (meetings, services, visiting)<br />3. Parting company with The Beau<br />4. Going on walking / research holiday to Dorset<br />5. Planning new series of small works as a result of 4, *, **<br />6. Revisiting research proposal, prior to rewriting<br />7. Weaving<br />8. Knitting<br />9. Reading Improving Books<br />10. Finishing a small commission<br /><br />How I feel about the above:-<br /><br />1. Neutral<br />2. Content<br />3. Surprisingly OK<br />4. Delighted<br />5. Excited<br />6. Pleased<br />7. Myself<br />8. Satisfied <br />9. Smug 😝<br />10. Chuffed<br /><br />* I finished weaving the first one this morning; it is currently undergoing the verdigris process.<br /><br />** Now, of course, I have to bind a new sketchbook for this 'Ritual Landscape' series. I have approximately five million*** in the drawer, but none of them are quite right.....<br /><br />*** May be a slight exaggeration!<br /><p class='blogpress_location'>Location:<a href='http://maps.google.com/maps?q=All%20Over%20the%20Place&z=10'>All Over the Place</a></p>LouLou@theLoomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08691202161688742373noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4169763410734421146.post-2735717950829731652018-06-09T03:20:00.001-07:002018-06-09T03:20:07.614-07:00Of Scaffold Looms and Junk Shop Barglins**word coined by nephew =bargains<br /><br />My dear friend D recently moved to Hastings, and now has a lovely studio to put a scaffold loom in - she has been waiting for this since she and I were at WD together eight years ago. Now that I have Lemminkäinen, there were most of the components in my garage, which were sent over by van a month ago. (This photo was when I had it in my studio in Northants)<br /><br /><br /><center><a href='https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-PxPEes96bSQ/Wxup0y1mM2I/AAAAAAAABUE/RLfoqJhpKO0bEiRAwinGbubycXucLxK0QCHMYCw/s288/iphone_photo.jpg'><img src='https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-PxPEes96bSQ/Wxup0y1mM2I/AAAAAAAABUE/RLfoqJhpKO0bEiRAwinGbubycXucLxK0QCHMYCw/s288/iphone_photo.jpg' border='0' width='280' height='186' style='margin:5px'></a></center><br /><br />Last Tuesday was Loom Building Day, hoorah! I have discovered a very useful scaffolding supplier, so headed off to acquire the missing components (one pair prop-bracing double couplers, and an 8ft tube) armed with my long spirit level and a big spanner. I had taken spare rope in case the tube was too long, but my little car can fit said 8ft tube, along with dinghy mast and boom (of which more later). Little jig of joy!<br /><br />After a very pleasant drive along the coast, and a welcome cuppa, we unloaded the goodies and began our task... Upon realising that we needed some carriage bolts, D took me to a splendid old-fashioned ironmongers, where they still sell nails etc by weight, and wrap them in newspaper. Oh joy and rapture - I could have spent hours in there, but we had an important job to do..... Short detour to a community charity shop where I found my barglin - a hairdresser's saddle stool for £3.50! The very thing for saving my back when at desk or loom. Another little jig of joy!<br /><br />For those of you who wish to build your own scaffold loom**here are the ingredients:-<br /><br />2 Acrow props<br />2 Scaffold tubes (length as required or to fit space available)<br />2 prop-bracing double couplers (pbdc)<br />2 swivel couplers (sc)<br />2 short scaffold planks<br /><br />Large adjustable spanner<br />Long spirit level (another junk-shop barglin, £3 eight years ago)<br />Second person (D is exemplary)<br />Step ladder<br /><br />1. Bolt lower sections of acrows to planks<br />2. Insert upper sections, adjust height to fit under ceiling<br />3. Fit pbdcs to lower section at height required <br />4. Fit scs to top section, ditto<br />5. Add scaffolding tube to pbdcs, loosely<br />6. Add scaffolding tube to scs, loosely<br />7. Check levels, correct if necessary, then tighten all bolts.<br />8. Drink tea and congratulate self<br /><br />I was thrilled to bits that first the lower tube (now beam) and then the upper, were both spot on level. Three cheers for me / us! And another jig of joy.<br /><br />**I am available for consultation, supply, and construction.<br /><br />We then decamped for a fish and chip supper and mooch around Old Hastings, which still has proper junky antique shops. <br /><br />The final task was to put a practice warp on, which we did. Final jig of joy.<br /><br />A splendid day! Drive home, Gabapentin, and sleep.......<br />LouLou@theLoomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08691202161688742373noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4169763410734421146.post-77418081917394475282018-05-21T07:00:00.001-07:002018-05-21T09:53:41.243-07:00Handling Warps of a Different Sort.........or, what to do if the boatyard 'forget' to install the main halyard before stepping the mast. Do as the Beau did:-<br />
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1. Buy a safety harness<br />
2. Ascertain that girlfriend (=me), henceforth known as First Mate (FM) is available as winch woman<br />
3. Hire some ladders (mast has no steps) Wait for tide to ebb so bilge keels settle in mud and boat will be still.<br />
4. Manoeuvre ladders onto deck with FM; lash to anchor post and shrouds<br />
5. Make and drink tea<br />
6. Don harness, attach safety line (the Genoa halyard), climb up ladder while FM winches you up<br />
7. FM ties off safety line, Cap'n lashes ladder to mast<br />
8. FM releases safety line and pays out while Cap'n climbs down ladder<br />
9. Cap'n ties new main halyard to harness<br />
10. Climb ladder while FM winches you up<br />
11. FM ties off safety line; Cap'n hauls up new halyard and feeds it through the thingy at the top of the mast**<br />
12. Repeat step 8<br />
13. Secure new halyard to piece of chain and stow in the lazy jacks<br />
14. Repeat step 10; undo lashing at top of ladder<br />
15. Repeat step 8<br />
16. Make and drink tea and eat teacake <br />
17. Remove lashing at bottom ladder, Cap'n and FM carry ladders onto pontoon then back to hire place.<br />
18. FM moves car which is in 2hr only spot.<br />
19. Make and drink tea.<br />
20. FM makes whipped, thimbled eye splice in the new halyard (her first eye splice in nylon rope, and first with a thimble, and all after a year's gap since last one)<br />
21. Congratulations all round.<br />
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Now for the rest of my Studio Day!<br />
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LouLou@theLoomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08691202161688742373noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4169763410734421146.post-8232071621877291512018-05-14T03:04:00.001-07:002018-05-14T03:04:02.969-07:00Getting Back To Normal (ish)<br /><br /><center><a href='https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-ICu3bB8kAgQ/WvlfEBfAywI/AAAAAAAABTo/be9rCTlkTWEkmrql20TYMNjuMFalvDeLgCHMYCw/s288/iphone_photo.jpg'><img src='https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-ICu3bB8kAgQ/WvlfEBfAywI/AAAAAAAABTo/be9rCTlkTWEkmrql20TYMNjuMFalvDeLgCHMYCw/s288/iphone_photo.jpg' border='0' width='280' height='197' style='margin:5px'></a></center><br /><br />The Art Trail is over, so today is about putting my home back to rights; with the challenge of maintaining the current level of tidiness! It has been a good experience - many enjoyable conversations about weaving in general, and my practice in particular. <br />I found it most salutary to tell my story and be reminded about the blessings I have gained in the last few years. <br />I was right not to become stressed making lots of work for sale; people came to look and talk, not buy necessarily, and that was fine - I now have a good stock of tiny tapestries to stock my Etsy shop (taking photos and doing that will be a day's work).<br />There are affirming comments in the Visitors' Book to look back on.<br />I have several new ideas to work on, and a new impetus to finish the larger works.<br />I shall participate again.<br /><p class='blogpress_location'>Location:<a href='http://maps.google.com/maps?q=The%20Loom%20Room&z=10'>The Loom Room</a></p>LouLou@theLoomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08691202161688742373noreply@blogger.com0