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Martha Talks About Color

There's lots of ways to play with color. You can do some dyeing if you want but you don't have to. Everything depends on what kind of time you have and what kind of mess you want to make! Spinners can chop up odd bits of colored yarn and card them in with new wool. There's spinning of roving or sliver of course, for solid colored threads. That's okay if you like the idea the dyer had. You could tho, do a false ply or break lots of different colored roving into short lengths spin it up and ply it with a thread of another color combination. Exciting colors, not mud! Ooh! and you could make the entire piece from spinning to knitting or spinning to weaving or crocheting or hooking and then dye the finished product for related shades and tones. The sky is the limit right? Right! ( Oh yes, we can wear rose colored glasses too.)

Pam talks about Project Planning

When planning your weaving project make sure you know how many heddles you have on each harness of your loom. It is much easier to count heddles before you start your project than to try to put on extra heddles after you have started threading!

Pam says Relax

When learning to weave, be open to new ideas. With warping your loom, try to understand why you are doing the steps that you have been instructed to do.  Your goal is to get the yarns onto the loom in a manner that does not result in a tangled mess. Don’t panic, relax it WILL be OK!

Pam Talks About Record Keeping

Good record keeping is very important. Keep a notebook and a camera close at hand to write down your information as you are designing your project. Take a picture of your finished project and keep it with your notes. You will refer back to these notes as your weaving continues.

Maurice says Baa Baa

Remember that Yarn Circle is closed on Thursdays...... Baaaaaaaa!