Fibre & Projects
Lots
of dyeing fun at the West Coast Wildnerness Weekend at Tullah, and then
at the Geeveston Group a week later. Nothing like learning and laughing
with friends.
I purchased a floor loom, a 4-shaft Druva and my learning project for this loom is a floor rug using all the second grade alpaca fibre from our last shearing and many of the old, half-used cones of yarn in my stash. So I warped up using the stash cones, putting strong cotton in the outer edges and will also weave top and bottom edges with this strong cotton, and perhaps continue the cotton up both edges. The whole piece will be about 4m long and 40" wide. (why do I think of length in metric and width in imperial?) The alpaca fibre is a mixture of the legs of all the 9 pacas, and the saddle fibre from 2 of the wethers who are a bit 'ordinary' in terms of alpaca luxuriousness. I have just started exploring Saori weaving so I am going to put the alpaca fibre in 'free-form' - that is straight from the shearing bag - no carding, no spinning. I have 10 threads per inch so that should hold the fibre in, and I shall semi-felt the finished product to further bed it all in. I'm sure fibres other than alpaca will creep in as I get my Saori vibes going. I'll document my progress here.
Day 5:
Yes, have almost 2" woven, beating that cotton down to make solid edge. I'm learning to throw the boat shuttle, I haven't done that before. It's flown onto the wood-heap several times, LOL. Shortly I'll be switching to shuttles tho' as only the left and right edges will be woven like this, the rest will be raw fibre packed in and beaten down adhoc.
Day 5:
Denise helps me, (and teaches me so I can go solo next time), to wind the 5m on. This is one of my favourite parts of weaving - seeing all those threads tied on snuggly.
Day 4:
Sleighing and heddling the warp chains, front to back. Ignore the fact 2 chains appear to be wound around a stick, things happen when you have to warp up in a wood-shed lean-to! Chains re-appeared shortly after photo.
Day 1:
Out comes the warping board, a total of 5 chains for 400 threads.
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Woven Sampler Scarf from the Jacey Boggs Insubordiknit Workshop hosted by the fab Mandie of EGMTK
the scarf is twice as long as the photo depicts, the midway point is the coloured section of supercoils.
the 'fringe' is actually a yarn - a tailspin yarn woven in
there are Coils, Supercoils, Core spun, Autowrap, Bubblewrap, Tailspin and Awesome
Fibre fun this week - art yarn galore!
I purchased a floor loom, a 4-shaft Druva and my learning project for this loom is a floor rug using all the second grade alpaca fibre from our last shearing and many of the old, half-used cones of yarn in my stash. So I warped up using the stash cones, putting strong cotton in the outer edges and will also weave top and bottom edges with this strong cotton, and perhaps continue the cotton up both edges. The whole piece will be about 4m long and 40" wide. (why do I think of length in metric and width in imperial?) The alpaca fibre is a mixture of the legs of all the 9 pacas, and the saddle fibre from 2 of the wethers who are a bit 'ordinary' in terms of alpaca luxuriousness. I have just started exploring Saori weaving so I am going to put the alpaca fibre in 'free-form' - that is straight from the shearing bag - no carding, no spinning. I have 10 threads per inch so that should hold the fibre in, and I shall semi-felt the finished product to further bed it all in. I'm sure fibres other than alpaca will creep in as I get my Saori vibes going. I'll document my progress here.
Day 5:
Yes, have almost 2" woven, beating that cotton down to make solid edge. I'm learning to throw the boat shuttle, I haven't done that before. It's flown onto the wood-heap several times, LOL. Shortly I'll be switching to shuttles tho' as only the left and right edges will be woven like this, the rest will be raw fibre packed in and beaten down adhoc.
Day 5:
Denise helps me, (and teaches me so I can go solo next time), to wind the 5m on. This is one of my favourite parts of weaving - seeing all those threads tied on snuggly.
Day 4:
Sleighing and heddling the warp chains, front to back. Ignore the fact 2 chains appear to be wound around a stick, things happen when you have to warp up in a wood-shed lean-to! Chains re-appeared shortly after photo.
Day 1:
Out comes the warping board, a total of 5 chains for 400 threads.
~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~
Woven Sampler Scarf from the Jacey Boggs Insubordiknit Workshop hosted by the fab Mandie of EGMTK
the scarf is twice as long as the photo depicts, the midway point is the coloured section of supercoils.
the 'fringe' is actually a yarn - a tailspin yarn woven in
there are Coils, Supercoils, Core spun, Autowrap, Bubblewrap, Tailspin and Awesome
Fibre fun this week - art yarn galore!
Bothwell 2011 International Highland SpinIN was fabulous. Art Yarn, Challenges, Projects, Friends old and new, it was great. I made another useful piece of art yarn from a fabulous colorway by Margaret, and Shirley knitted me a great little vest from some of my homepsun yarn.
January 2011
