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Category: Workshops

Learning to Weave on a Floor Loom, My First Sampler

Here’s the sampler I wove in the Weaving Course I recently took. It was my first time on a floor loom so it really is just that, a sampler, a series of experiments and mistakes and tiny victories. It will serve as a great reference guide for future project as it’s really just a quilt of swatches. …

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Published November 19, 2015
Categorized as Made By Me, Workshops

Learning To Weave at The Burr House

We did it! We wove things! When I was little, I remember thinking weaving was the ultimate craft. If you knew how to do that, I thought, you’d made it. Mum’s floor loom and an antique spinning wheel occupied the hallway just outside my bedroom. They fascinated me. My Mum wasn’t even weaving at the time, I was just mesmerized…

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Published November 17, 2015
Categorized as Workshops

Intro to Spinning Workshop at The Knit Cafe

A few months back I took a drop spindle (introductory spinning) class at The Knit Cafe in Toronto. Majorly worth it. For anyone interested in spinning and in the Toronto area I wanted to share my experience. I got into the idea of spinning my own yarn a couple of years ago when a family friend passed on to…

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Published May 23, 2015
Categorized as Made By Me, Workshops

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Tracing Threads is a craft, photography, and creative family history blog by me, Kate Smalley. It’s where I share what I’m making, craft I’m loving, and the places I’m visiting. I also write the occasional musing on creativity and joy, and the economics of it all. You know—the good stuff.

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