Huck Lace 

I spent the weekend in Sainte Suzanne which is a charming village in the Mayenne department and where a group of 8 artisans (including me) exhibit their work.    We take turns managing the boutique and this weekend it was me.     This gives me a chance to check the stock and to take my trusty hand held steamer - nothing annoys me more than seeing unironed scarves being displayed and my steamer is brilliant at removing creases.   

The scarf I made last week is gorgeous.    The colours are more pastel than I anticipated but beautiful nonetheless.    I used huck lace within the squares and for the second scarf I put the huck in alternate squares just to change it a bit.   This involved totally rethreading the loom as I hadn't thought about this in advance.    I don't think I have ever thread and woven a scarf so fast - I had a date with Roland Garros semi finals!

This week I'm working on a similar scarf but navy blue with pink and/or turquoise separating the squares.   I dyed the silk last week and now have to tidy up the workroom and get started.

It is June which means Roland Garros and I find it very hard to work when I really want to be watching the tennis.    As a result I spend the mornings weaving and the afternoons twizzling (my word for twisting fringes) the scarves that have been finished with the computer in front of me tuned in to the tennis.    It seems to work.  

At the moment I am building up stock for the boutique in Sainte Suzanne (more later) and also for the end of year exhibitions - Christmas is a busy time for me.    

Today I am working on a simple but colourful scarf in citrus colours.   It's a colour scheme I use often at this time of year : summer, light, colourful.  Let me know what you think.   The photo shows the idea as it appears in my weaving software.   The scarf will obviously be "similar but not the same".

 

I've decided to resurrect this blog but largely based on my weaving work.   

Back in 2012 I was given a table loom for my birthday and a new life began.    The table loom grew in size until it eventually became a Louet Megado with 32 shafts.    I started exhibiting and selling my work locally in 2015 and later on I was invited to exhibit at various Salons des Metiers d'Arts.    

I don't know how successful I'll be at writing the blog each week but I'll try!   In the meantime, if you've got this far, you can find some of my work by clicking this link through to my online shop.