MAINE VILLAGE WEAVER

Hand woven ticking stripe in red rust and sand all cotton  will soon be available from off the loom as of March 5 2013. I will be making a bedspread like the one below with the same pillow shams . The Red Rust solid will also be available by March 20th and ready to ship. If interested you can contact my at  email: leck@midcoast.com first come first serve quantities limited.

What? What is CVM wool? Well this is lovely 2 ply yarn that I have been working with to make the Organic wool blankets for the The Bridge Farm. CVM sheep are a heritage sheep breed that is great for wool fiber and as a meat breed for small farms. I read about them at a web site of a local farm that also spins yarn for sheep farmers .This was NEWAIM yarn fiber mill. Well I am hooked. This is lovely wool that has luster and smooth not itchy at all. My job is done with weaving the blankets and now I am in search for more. The hunt is on. I almost forgot CVM stands for California Varigated Mutant , thats right . Check Out the web site NEWAIM .

Wishing all the folks that read this a Merry Christmas! Here at the +Village Weaver and the +Scottish Lion Wrought Iron we are weaving and forging right up to Christmas Eve and then we are going to take Christmas day off. We have a collection of DVD 's that we are going to sit and watch . I may make some goodies to eat .Mostly we need rest.  We had our family get together at the beginning  of Dec.with our son +Zackarya Leck    and  +Andrea Z Leck  . I am on my fourth warp of the Organic wool Blankets for the + Bridge Farm in Dresden. See my previous post Merry Christmas!

King Size wool blanket The blanket for The Bridge Farm in Dresden Maine is completed! Didn't it turn out wonderful? It is organic beautiful wool woven in a twill weave . Hand woven blanket has two panels sewn together to get the width for the blanket I had sewed the seam . The owners wanted an edge that was fringed. I stay stitched the edges to keep them from unraveling. When the yarn was spun it had an oil used to keep control of the spinning. I washed the wool after it was sewn and it bloomed with a lovely heather brown and grey full yarn. Not too thick or heavy. It didn't even smell "sheepy " the wool when it was wet. I will deliver the blankets to the farm and they are going to have them on display at their open house on Dec 1. Call before going to be sure. They will have their beautiful animals in the field and goodies for sale.

I was asked by the folk at the Bridge Farm in Dresden Maine to weave blankets from their yarn grown by their very own flock of sheep! Here are some photos describing the process of weaving the yarn on my floor loom. First I want to say that  they had the yarn spun at a fiber mill outside of Maine. It was done by Stonehedge Fiber Mill. They did a lovely job! I have not encountered any problems with the yarn and it is sturdy enough to hold tension on the loom.It weaves beautifully and there has been no dust or pieces of foreign matter showing up( twigs or hay) or knots.   the threading of the yarn through the heddles before you can weave Close up of the wool blanket being woven  I am weaving this in a straight twill threading and treading it the same way. I have doubled the yarn in my shuttle to add body and less stiffness to the blanket. Picture above and below shows the shed opening and the shuttle being thrown in between the yarns. When the blanket is do...

Macomber 48 in  Ad a Harness Loom Here is a deal!  A Macomber 48 in loom. For sale . Look at my Etsy shop for details in the side margin.

I have had a busy September ! I was at Brimfield MA ",Central Park" field for the first time . What a long week but it was made fun cause at night I got to go home with the folks at Walker Homestead .  Then a brief time home then off with hubby to Common Ground Country Fair in Unity Maine.He displayed for the first time a fire pit that was a hit!  Home and then off to the last show that I have a link to that has pictures for you to see from Home in New England