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Backstrap Weaving – Building the Bag
The good news is that I FOUND IT! If you read my last blog post, you’ll know what I’m talking about….the lost balls and skeins of silk that I had dyed with cochineal bugs. It had been a quite a task dyeing that silk as I slowly learned by trial-and-error about just some of the…
Backstrap Weaving – Where is it?
The slooooow move back to Australia is presenting some problems. One of them could have been easily solved by simply making a list of things that I have taken over there so far. That would save me from having the annoying ”Where is it?” question occupying so much of my time. For example, I can’t…
Backstrap Weaving – Sifting through Stash
I have mentioned before that I am trying to limit all my projects to using yarn that I already have in my stash. I had no choice but to do so during the pandemic and found that it was an interesting challenge that often took me to unexpected places. It had me spinning all the…
Backstrap Weaving – Confused!
The “Confused” title doesn’t refer to my backstrap loom weaving but rather to the back-and-forthing that I have been doing between Bolivia and Australia these last two months. After a ten-day break following the first trip, I headed back again and now here I am back in Bolivia. Now you might imagine my confusion as…
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