Long time readers may remember that back in July last year I spun up a gorgeous skein of dyed baby camel and silk (from Freyalyn) plied with undyed cashmere and silk. And that at in October I started weaving a scarf with it, using some commercial BFL/alpaca as the warp. I didn’t feel the love [...]
Archive for the ‘Weaving’ Category
Weaving once more
Posted in Spinning, Weaving, tagged Handspun, weaving on March 30, 2012 | 4 Comments »
Saturday update, with a handspun theme
Posted in Cats, Finished Objects, Knitting, Spinning, Weaving, tagged cats, Knitting, Spinning, weaving on October 15, 2011 | 4 Comments »
I was co-erced into going out for drinks after work last night, which was okay, although I don’t cope with large groups of people in pubs very well, I tend to switch off whilst conversations go on around me. But I’d completely forgotten that there was even a plan to go out, so I’d driven [...]
A little bit of this, a little bit of that…
Posted in Knitting, Spinning, Weaving on October 3, 2011 | 7 Comments »
I seem to be in a flitting mood, doing bits of different projects and not actually finishing any of them. No matter, soon I’ll have lots of finished things all at once. Hopefully. Before I went to Alnwick I treated myself to two balls of the lovely new lace yarn from Rowan, it’s 80% baby [...]
From the sublime to the ridiculous
Posted in Finished Objects, Knitting, Weaving, tagged Handspun, Knitting, stole, weaving on August 16, 2011 | 11 Comments »
I’ve spent most of the last week knitting squares for my blanket, but I won’t bore you with them just now – I’m thinking of setting up a separate page on here for them, so I can record them without cluttering up the blog. But that’s a job for another day. At the weekend I [...]
Spinning a yarn
Posted in Spinning, Weaving, tagged Handspun, Spinning on July 12, 2011 | 6 Comments »
I am still here, and I have been busy, I just haven’t done anything that’s seemed worth writing about for a while. I was inspired by talk of the Tour de Fleece (which I don’t join, that’s a sure fire way for me immediately not to want to do something) to get my unspun fibre [...]
Skill + 1UP – 2KCBWDAY2
Posted in Knitting, Sewing, Weaving, tagged 2KCBWDAY2 on March 29, 2011 | 17 Comments »
Look back over your last year of projects and compare where you are in terms of skill and knowledge of your craft to this time last year. Have you learned any new skills or forms of knitting/crochet (can you crochet cable stitches now where you didn’t even know such things existed last year? Have you [...]
Bag in waiting
Posted in Weaving, tagged cats, weaving on July 15, 2010 | 3 Comments »
There was warp left on the loom from the bag I made the other day, so today I picked up a ball of Noro Kureyon from Ramshambles at lunchtime, and tonight I spent an hour and a half listening to the end of my Miss Silver audiobook and weaving it into this lovely piece of [...]
Three crafts in one bag
Posted in Finished Objects, Sewing, Spinning, Weaving, tagged bag, Sewing, Spinning, weaving on July 12, 2010 | 12 Comments »
I was going to go out today, but it’s cold and wet, so instead I spent the morning turning the fabric I weaved yesterday using my handspun yarn into a bag. I used the same method I used for the little bag I made a while ago, I did take some photos as I went [...]
More weaving
Posted in Finished Objects, Weaving, tagged artist's palette, scarf, weaving on July 11, 2010 | 2 Comments »
I spent the early part of yesterday afternoon weaving the purple scarf for my aunt. Then I spent the later part of the afternoon laboriously unweaving it. I decided to try a balanced weave of about 10 ends per inch in each direction, which was looking fine until I came to wind it onto the [...]
On the edge
Posted in Finished Objects, Weaving, tagged weaving on July 4, 2010 | 5 Comments »
I’ve been weaving again. There has been knitting, Coraline is done up to the yoke on the body, but my left wrist has been twinging slightly whilst I’ve been knitting, and whilst it’s not bad enough to be painful, I’m trying not to overdo things for fear of making it worse. I think the crochet [...]
