Friday, January 27, 2012

so many projects, some new, some old

 Fintan warping the loom.
 Paraphernalia in Hyena in Petticoats, Les Femmes Sock in Debbie Harry
 My handspun--1st skein of nice soft yarn. Sunna top from Gaia's Colours in  Morocco
 Having finished the socks above I pulled out this project again after about two months, and was delighted to find I have only about 3 inches to go on the body, then on tho the sleeves.

 I received some lovely lace yarn already caked, and so warped the loom with it. I doubled the yarn, used a 12-dent heddle, and it is going to be a fine and lovely fabric. I'm using another laceweight doubled for the weft. It's finer than the warp, so the beats per inch are more like 14--it's going to take some time!
 This is Sophia's weaving. I gave her this Cricket loom for her birthday, and this is her second project on it. She came up with the pattern herself, which I love.

 Sophia also knit this hat. She used a pattern, but inserted her own chart. Cute, eh? and it matches her jacket.

 This is her first project on her new Cricket. She's so cool. She took my Weaver's idea book and chose this pattern to work through. Such a fine job. She's only just 12.

This is a sampler Sami band, which I wove using 10/2 cotton on my Cricket loom. I used a small, 8-dent heddle, with 22 ends. The pattern ends are doubled. I worked through each of the patterns for 5 pattern threads in the book Sami Band Weaving.  This was pretty simple, and fast, and I intend to do some more in wool to decorate sweaters over the next year.

1 comment:

Stoorstålka said...

Nice to see your good work!