This is the 15th year of continuous daily publication for 365Caws. All things considered, it's likely it will be the last year as it is becoming increasingly difficult for me to find interesting material. However, I hope that I may have inspired someone to a greater curiosity about the natural world with my natural history posts, or encouraged a novice weaver or needleworker. If so, I've done what I set out to do.
Tuesday, August 5, 2025
Weaving a Tube
Day 297: Some time back, I received a mispicked order for cotton thread, and was sent 3/2 instead of 5/2. I contacted the supplier who told me they'd ship out the correct product, and that I was free to keep the cone already in my possession. Never one to pass up free thread, I thought, "Well, I'll find someplace to use it even though it's heavy." I tried it in an overshot against 8/2, but after wet-finishing, it fulled up so much that the pattern was almost lost. The remainder went back on the "some day" shelf until recently when a friend picked up a partial cone of pink 3/2 and sent it to me, sparking an instinct which said loudly and clearly, "I have GOT to get rid of this!" (If you've missed the memo, I hate pink, absolutely loathe it.) I decided to make "bag bags" with it as an accent against the blue of the same weight. What's a "bag bag?" It's a long skinny tube, open at both ends, serving as a dispenser for the produce bags which inevitably follow you home from the grocery store and deserve at least one more use before going in the trash (don't get me started on single-use plastics, people! That's dangerous ground). Anyway, I decided to warp my small rigid heddle loom for weaving a tube, intending to cut in half to make two "bag bags." It hasn't been a project I particularly enjoyed, what with that pink staring at me, but at least I've put the thread to good use. I still have more of each colour left, so I'll have to come up with another project to use it up, just maybe not any time soon. I'm tired of 3/2, and I never want to see pink again.
Labels:
bag bags,
rigid heddle,
tube,
weaving
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