These are two scarves I finished weaving yesterday. They are 100% acrylic (yeck!) but it seems i have an abundance of the stuff, so my goal is to weave up about ten or twenty of them for the festival.
I can price them affordably, and they are a bit more user friendly than wool, silk etc. These two wove up too stiffly, so I have some problem solving to do before I start the next two.
In tapestry...
Here is the tapestry I wove up on the little picture frame. I found out on Easter weekend that I was one of the facilitators selected to teach at this year's Boreal Jam so I have to get cracking on my handouts, samplers and looms.
And here is the next one I started (of some crocus type flowers). I have a cartoon drawn for the third one, a whirlpool, which will play more with color and texture.
In knitting...
I started knitting this hat out of Hand painted 100% silk (the ball on the right) but it wasn't the correct diameter along so I combined it with three strands of silk/wool blend, each a slightly different blue. I apologize if the pictures are too dark. My monitor is darkening which has caused me to edit photos to appear lighter than they should on everyone else's monitor, so I have stopped editing them to look good on my monitor. Time for a new monitor!
And in spinning...
This is a hand dyed 50% silk/50% merino sliver I picked up at the Creative Stitches show this year. I also bought the little spindle so I could spin a finer singles. I am spinning it into two ply which I hope to use as part of the warp/weft in a scarf later on.
It is very fine, and apparently, although I tried very hard to put tons of twist into the singles, I still wound up with very scant twist per inch. I still have so much to learn. Oh well at least even with the botches I can make pretty things!
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I enjoy knowing just enough about a craft so that when I make mistakes, I can learn from them rather than just be angry at them.
Also, my loom is going to need minor repairs when I am finished this strap. I really have to get my tension-freakyness in check. And maybe a different loom for card weaving, or at least a different loom for card weaving anything so wide.
Uh oh! What happened?
Oh shoot I forgot about how much the tension changes in card weaving.
The post with the tensioner on it made a crack noise, its trying to come apart from the base of the loom. It doesn't wobble or anything though, but it's come up a couple of millimetres on the far side. I'll find someone with carpentry skills to see about straightening it out and gluing it when I get the strap off it. I'll just be more careful with it until its done. And not card weave anything else this wide [or perhaps at all] on it.
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