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I've been dying to make David a pair of pants from the 8-shaft pinwheel pattern, but I always chicken out at the last minute because I'm afraid that the 4-thread float will be too long.  But this time, I decided to not let it scare me!  I made it out of 16/2 thread so it will be very fine fabric and also the 4-thread float can be very short!  While weaving the pinwheel fabric, I decided that I really wanted to make a matching fabric, since the pants pattern I have takes two fabrics.  But I had to think about what wouldn't clash with the already busy pinwheels.  I chose plain weave with the green and one thread of the teal every 1/2".  I wove 8 yards of the pinwheel fabric, and I'm currently working on weaving 5 yards of the plain fabric.  I'm about 75% done with the plain weave! While designing these fabrics, I decided that I really liked the designing part!  I started thinking while weaving the fabric if I could actually print on fabric.  Af...

I can't believe January is almost over, and I never even shared my Christmas towels I made for family!  "Where is 2016 going?" I'm already asking myself! Here are the Christmas towels that I promised to show you so long ago!  These were so much fun to make and didn't take as much thought to do as you would fear! I didn't follow any particular pattern. When I sat down to thread my loom, I did more of a profile draft style threading but I didn't write it down first I just do it from my head. Same thing for treadling- I didn't have that written down first I just followed a profile-like draft from my head. So it was all somewhat of a surprise to me as I went! The towels I made were from 12/2 cotton.  I warped 6 yards, and the epi was 24. Made 8 towels total. Just a little reminder... When threading for summer and winter…. block 1 = 1 3 2 3 block 2 = 1 4 2 4 block 3 = 1 5 2 5 block 4 = 1 6 2 6 block 5 = 1 7 2 7 block 6 = 1 8 2 8 David is, of course, grow...

I wish I could show you the things I've been busy making for Christmas presents, but I don't want to spoil the surprise!  Instead, I have these really cute pictures of David to share!  He's at least wearing handwovens in the first one!! Singing at the piano... Crunching leaves... Throwing leaves...  Playing in week old snow, because snow lasts and lasts here compared to Arizona!!  

It's been pretty chilly here, very nice weather to put you into the Christmas mood!  We finally enjoyed our first snow of  the year, and although it was very small, it was wonderful! I'm looking forward to many more! And we've begun our Christmas cheer by enjoying David's new Christmas romper!  I was delighted with how it turned out!  I was worried about sizing though.  I made this pattern a few weeks ago to practice and he's definitely between sizes, but I decided to go with the larger one knowing he will only get bigger!  :) Hope you're enjoying your season so far!

I'm thrilled with how this outfit turned out!  I did handweave the houndstooth fabric, but I didn't handweave the cloth for the shirt, but I did sew it into a shirt! Off to a fun day at the zoo today!

Pants, pants, pants!  We're all about pants now that there is a great fallish chill to the air.  I decided during the move that I have way too much yarn, so I really need to work on using up my stash.  I intended to drop a few low cones with this project, but unfortunately, I didn't use up any colors!  Some of the cones are very low, but I guess that means I will have to do this rainbow plaid again!  I decided to cut this one up into fancy pants for David.  I used the "Big Butt Baby Pants" pattern, made by Rae. It is the only pants pattern I have used for David's entire life, and it's my favorite!  These are 24 mo, and the pattern goes to 2T, so I have another year and a half before I really need to find another great pants pattern for him! We decided to do our photoshoot at Garden of the Gods, which is an amazing place to visit!  It's so pretty there! Here's the pattern for you.  It's a broken twill so the floats are no longer than 2 threads...