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Well we've moved and now I just have to unpack and build the loom again! We've also just been to Sweden to visit friends a very inspiring place with lots of very cool design shops (not just Ikea!).

getting ready to move

well its only a few days till we move now which means I should be cracking on with my warp! Instead I find myself packing boxes and bags! Its going ok just an experiment really for bigger things! And it comes with the difficultly that I'm not really going to see what it looks like till the warps off and I can wash and shrink it!!

new works

As I may only have one week with my loom where it is I'm trying to get one last warp through. I'm still a bit all over the place so I haven't got into a set routine with my design process, which usally starts with a sketch book and grows from there. So I'm just going to try some monofiliment as a warp in a distorted weft draft. This should give me an idea how the loom copes with monofiliment (and how i do!) so hopefully I'll post some pictures soon with how that turns out. Work starts tomorrow!

1st attempt

just getting started doing this thing so its a bit shakey to start - I'll get the hang of it soon I'm sure!
I've put a few pictures up (randomly in the middle as not got the hang of placing them!) of some of the work I did in Tanzania weaving and drawing.
The weaving was done on my little four shaft loom that I've now donated to the workshop in TZ.