With my guild's gallery show looming in the next week, I'm once again down to the wire trying to get stuff done. (After the show is up and running it is back to the level 5 homework! That will be on the 7th of October.... yeah!) I have been weaving on pin looms left right and centre.
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| This is the beginning of a tri-loom shawl... in pink.... I am trying to use up as much pink as I can just to get rid of it.... I'm starting to feel the need to barf with all this pink on the go. |
Yesterday I started putting one project together. I am making a scarf with silk warp and a silk/merino weft that I spun a few years ago.
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| All the ends need to be darned in yet... I'll show this when I get it finished. |
So far it is looking really nice but I still have four more squares to attach and then I have to crochet an edge. Yesterday I was crocheting so much that my poor hands had to be soaked in hot water this morning to get them working. So today I decided to put that scarf aside for a day and work on a mixed warp scarf or two on my loom. I just finished stringing the warp and I think I have enough warp for two scarves. It is a combination of weird and wonderful fibres that I found in my stash.
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| I tried to get the best picture I could but the light sucks this morning... |
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| ...so here is a picture of the fibre I am using... except I don't have the ribbon that I also used in the warp. It's glitzy and looks awesome... only I ran out and didn't have any to put in this picture. |
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| This is a picture of my rigid heddle loom and the warp going on. The living room was quite busy this morning. |
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I'm about to have some lunch and finish beaming the warp on to the loom and then I will be weaving all afternoon. I also have another mixed warp scarf that I want to weave and that will be tomorrow's job.
The blue is a merino yarn that I spun two years ago. The pink is the same stuff that's going into the shawl in the previous picture. The pink stuff is alpaca. And the shaggy weird stuff is something I picked up at a garage sale... nylon and other weird stuff... (I have some god-awful orange stuff like it too... not sure if I can figure out how to use that stuff.) Then I have a green shawl on another pin loom too. But there's a lot of work left on that one so I'm not sure I'll get that one done. That is next week's project. I have to have it ready for Wednesday or Thursday next week... we'll see.
Time is a wasting... thought I'd just give a little update... see you soon..... I'm off to eat some lunch and weave.
2 comments:
All your wonderful work you are up to makes me feel like I should start a sock or something:)
Having too much fun at the HH Shie La Vie lately has made me lazy. We have a new sign made by our lovely Lde that will go up tomorrow if I can find a stool tall enough to stand on that is.
Keep up the great work, your are truly inspirational to me! c
Thanks me dear! Hope to see ya soon.
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