Ok so now that I have whined a bit I thought that while the going is good I would post some pictures of the vest that I made while I was in Olds..... this will be the only opportunity I have to prove to everyone that I actually do finish projects. This one I started last year when I got back from Olds. We had been challenged by our instructor to use the yarn that we had dyed with madder and gotten 25 different shades by using different modifiers and mordants (it was a pretty awesome experiment and I want to try it again but with Logwood) anyway I came up with the idea of making a vest.... there wasn't a whole lot of yarn and so the vest does not fit me.... I would have to say that it is a good medium.... I started weaving on my 4"x6" Weavette and each colour did exactly one rectangle except a couple which I found another colour to match it as closely as I could to finish it.... once I had all the rectangles woven I put them away and began to work on the Big j.c. Of course, you all know what happened after that..... no time except for the Big j.c. All year those rectangles would call to me and all along I knew what I wanted to do with them.... I started sewing them together one day when I had to take Dad to the doctor and had to wile away an hour or so waiting for him.... I used the loom waste from the Big j.c. to sew everything together and hauled out some nylon fabric to make the back. It was while I was in Olds this year that I managed to finish the sucker and hang it up with a smile on my face as a job well done.
So here it is in all it's glory and because the pictures don't do it justice.... I'll tell you what is on the back.... I used every last scrap of my madder dyed yarn weaving but with only a little left over I had enough to embroider a dragon on the back of the vest. By the way the buttons are Cocobolo wood....
Here it is....
Oh and by the way I'm not entirely useless.....
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