{"id":5661,"date":"2018-10-16T12:54:43","date_gmt":"2018-10-16T17:54:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.argoknot.com\/?p=5661"},"modified":"2018-10-16T12:54:43","modified_gmt":"2018-10-16T17:54:43","slug":"a-weekend-at-red-stone-glen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.argoknot.com\/?p=5661","title":{"rendered":"A Weekend at Red Stone Glen"},"content":{"rendered":"

It was a near-perfect weekend for a long drive to central Pennsylvania, where two friends and I took a class at Tom Knisely’s new weaving studio called Red Stone Glen<\/a>.\u00a0 It’s a bucolic setting, far from the rush of nearby Harrisburg–except on Saturday nights when there is some kind of race car track nearby that makes quite a racket until about 9pm.\u00a0 In the stillness of the woods it is quite a surprising background sound!<\/p>\n

This is the main house, where the weaving classes take place and where you can shop.<\/p>\n

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Isn’t this just the spot to have lunch and admire the view across the valley to the distant hills.<\/p>\n

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Julia, Clare and I were taking a class on the taka dai with Rodrick Owen and Terry Flynn, in the smaller farmhouse down the long driveway from the main house.\u00a0 We had a large room for the three of us upstairs on the right side of the house.\u00a0 The room goes from the front to back of the house.\u00a0 We had a private bath in that room as well.\u00a0 The mornings and nights were chilly, but I was determined to have coffee outside each morning–totally worth it!<\/p>\n

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The back of the farmhouse has some lovely views as well.<\/p>\n

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There was fog each morning.<\/p>\n

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Oh yeah, and the class we took was great!\u00a0 We were so busy working that I didn’t take enough time to get photos of that! This class took place in the farmhouse.<\/p>\n

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Rodrick is watching Clare braid.<\/p>\n

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One of the staffers took a photo of all of us together on Phyllis’ phone. Those are all of Rodrick’s braids on the table!<\/p>\n

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Rodrick always travels with a treasure trove of the braids he has made over the years.<\/p>\n

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When you’re not working in class you can shop on the lower level of the main house.\u00a0 These are the samples from the book 18 towels on Four Warps<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Here are three of the four braids I’ve made lately (one has gone awol, but I hope it’s still somewhere in my studio).\u00a0 The braid on the left is one of the first braids to make since it is plain weave with a color and weave effect known as log cabin.\u00a0 I made that on Clare’s taka dai during the summer.<\/p>\n

The braid on the right is unfinished because I plan to put it back on the taka dai today to continue making it.\u00a0 It is a twill such an interesting pattern.<\/p>\n

The middle braid was quite a bit harder.\u00a0 I was making some weaving mistakes and getting an interesting pattern….you know the adage “a mistake made over and over is a new pattern!”\u00a0 Well, I wanted to make the example in Rodrick’s book, so in the 2nd half of this braid I have corrected my mistake.\u00a0 The beginning of this braid is a technique called braiding from the point so that there is no fringe at this end.\u00a0 Terry Flynn helped me with that, and she also helped me learn how to do a hemstitch finish at the other end.\u00a0 This is a technique that Terry figured out how to add to the ends of braids.<\/p>\n

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This is a close up of the correct part of this braid.<\/p>\n

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You can see how it has two lattice work areas in different colors that weave through the background color.\u00a0 All these braids were made with 60\/2 silk on cones from WEBs.\u00a0 I don’t have a lot of color choices in my stash, and I was not particularly happy with these colors.<\/p>\n

Figuring out how to get a wide variety of colors without taking out a 2nd mortgage is a challenge in making kumihimo!\u00a0 For the moment I will have to make do with what I have!<\/p>\n

Take a look at the Red Stone Glen website and see if you don’t find plenty of temptations in their class choices.\u00a0 I hope to go back in March!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It was a near-perfect weekend for a long drive to central Pennsylvania, where two friends and I took a class at Tom Knisely’s new weaving studio called Red Stone Glen.\u00a0 It’s a bucolic setting, far from the rush of nearby Harrisburg–except on Saturday nights when there is some kind of race car track nearby that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fine-craft"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.argoknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5661","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.argoknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.argoknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.argoknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.argoknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5661"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.argoknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5661\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5678,"href":"http:\/\/www.argoknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5661\/revisions\/5678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.argoknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.argoknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.argoknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}