Peggy Stuart's Blog Posts Tagged 'appliqué' (5)

High Fiber—Adventures in Weaving and Other Fiber Fun

In spite of a busy week, there was some progress on several projects. The appliqué part of the Delectable Pathways quilt is coming along.

I worked on it some during the Common Threads meeting, which took place at…

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Added by Peggy Stuart on May 20, 2013 at 8:30am — 19 Comments

High Fiber—Warp Drive or Impulse?

I started warping/dressing my loom on Sunday afternoon. Um...I made a few mistakes.

My mistakes:

1. I picked soft, thin, stretchy, clingy sock yarn for my warp for a nice scarf.

2. The pattern that was my inspiration called for two yards. I upped it to three to make the scarf…

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Added by Peggy Stuart on March 4, 2013 at 8:30am — 25 Comments

High Fiber—Sleying the Mighty Reed And Other Adventures

Wednesday, Deanna, my weaving teacher, came to my house to help me set up my loom and give me a lesson.

Here she is showing me how she picks up four separate threads in order as they come out of the heddles and keeps them straight as she threads them through the dents in the reed, (sleying the…

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Added by Peggy Stuart on February 25, 2013 at 8:30am — 9 Comments

High Fiber—Back To Normal?

The two days it took to get home from Indiana provided great knitting time!

I made good progress on the Dogwood Blossoms sweater, about 1" of the pattern. I put it on two circs, so you can see…

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Added by Peggy Stuart on April 30, 2012 at 8:30am — 13 Comments

High Fiber—A New Thread

I'm running a week behind because of the review of the yarn shop last week.

This week, I'll be showing off some of the work from my friends at Vintage Stitchers. Brenda has a new long-arm quilting machine. She practiced on the quilt above. Here's her chicken quilt, done on the new machine.