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ful strap for a bag i wove originally i was going to enter the bag into the contest handspun wensleydale warp and handspun supercoil weft both dyed by black bunny fibers but i think the strap was more interesting to talk about in a video you may notice this looks nothing like regular tablet woven bands instead of using several colored warp threads and a pattern i warped the flip as if i were plain weaving using the direct warping method and let the pattern emerge from the beautiful yarn if you look closely you can see the undulating wave pattern from when i turn the cards forward and back it s even more striking in person blue moon fiber arts socks that rock lightweight in sunstone if you must know i used about 1 2 of the skein for the band i haven t weighed the leftovers yet but it s enough for something i ve always been tangentially interested in tablet weaving but for reals i am lazy i don t want to measure and wind warps i know i ll get emails and i ll try it someday promise but direct warping and relying on yarn for patterning made for a fast project that was easyeasy i love it i think i ll make a camera strap for my lumix later and kristine will have to make one for her new camera i know you have some sample sale yarns to use up speaking of easy you may know i have a kid who is the apple of my eye we work on silly projects together like painting and drawing and those types of creating endeavors not really fiber i always want to get him knitting and spinning and weaving but his lack of any attention span coupled with his hardheaded nature who knows where that came from means it s mainly been a short adventure i have been thinking a lot about resist dyeing with wax for ikat style patterned warp and decided i could modify the idea into something my son and i could work on together so i direct warped the loom with heavy sportweight non mercerized white cotton and pulled out our textile paints he painted the warp directly on the loom and then i wove it i used the same weft as warp i thought about dyeing the entire fabric with fiber reactive dyes via low immersion dyeing for even more interest but haven t decided yet the fabric will end up eventually as a bag for him it s stiff but i think once the paints have been heatset they ll be a bit more pliable i ll wash it in finishing and think the cotton will pull in quite a bit if not i ll make a bag liner yay for my sewing 101 class and kira k the painting went well we used 7 different colors but with the metallic addins of the jacquard lumiere its a bit hard to differentiate metallic purple from metallic pewter in pictures i really love it it was easy enough to do with the boy the paintable area of warp in front of the heddle was perfect for a short attention span that returned once i had dried and woven over the painted portion and he loved being able to pick and choose his own colors and designs i ll definitely be thinking about direct warp painting as a grownup project eventually i want to use some soy wax and tjanting tools to paint soy wax onto the warp and cold water dye the resulting fabric and use thickened fiber reactive dyes for a more wearable less stiffened read scarves etc fabric maybe even break out my vintage wood type ampersand collection and stamp a fine warp it was nice doing this as a jumping off point for more possibilities of direct warp painting especially since my baby started kindergarten and i m so oh you know everything this was our last project before he started school so even more special the videos tablet weaving on the schacht flip rigid heddle loom direct warp painting on the schacht flip rigid heddle loom unfortunately the white warp is doing some weird psychadelic dancing because of the hd video being condensed down to nothing posted by aija at 4 02 pm 9 comments labels direct warp painting schacht flip tablet weaving on a rigid heddle loom weaving on a rigid heddle loom monday august 31 2009 spinning mohair from attenuated locks i recently swapped with adrianne for 3 oz of unwashed very fine first clip kid mohair fleece on the spin or dye swap board on ravelry i really am not interested in buying a whole mohair fleece but it was too pretty to pass up and just enough to do a good sample with photo 2009 adrianne l shtop washed kid mohair fleece wakingthebones com i decided i wanted it to be very halo y and also not retain any of the curlylocks look once spun so spun it from the lock instead of spinning over the fold i attenuated the entire lock prior to spinning i started with an intact lock i scoured this partial fleece myself and maintained lock formation by washing in tuille starting at the middle of the lock i gently opened it up by teasing it open and separating the individual fibers apart but just enough not to make the lock fall apart aside from the other reasons for spinning the mohair this way the other plus to attenuating the whole lock prior to spinning was that i was able to detect and shake out the small amounts of dandruff hidden in the fibers it s a small amount and not a dealbreaker for mohair but still not something i wanted in the final yarn look closely around the shorn end after loosening the entire lock up i went back and separated the fibers even more starting from one end and working to the other the small lock creates quite a long length of fiber i made several of these long attenuated lengths lined them up and started spinning my idea in spinning the kid mohair was to have as many ends tip shorn sticking out from the single as possible initially i was going to do this by spinning from the fold so that the middlemost section of the individual fibers would be the ones caught up in the twist and allowing the opposite ends to stick out but i tend to grasp folded locks a bit tightly when spinning and wanted them to be as lofty and not smoothed down as possible plus there was the scurf thing ew so i took the lengths of attenuated locks as if they were a commercially prepared long length of top roving i was spinning from the tip of and feeding directly into the orifice but it was the middlemost part of the locks getting the bulk of twist and not the aligned ones of a top this way both tip and butt end of the locks were free to be free and i was able to loosen up quite a bit in my grip compared to my spinning from the fold letting those ends halo even more you can get a sense of the amount of halo the single produced this way i placed a white card on the mother of all to show you still can spot a bit of scurf that shook out in plying as much as i wanted a halo y yarn i didn t want a 100 mohair one so i dug out this precious bit of tussah silk handpainted by string theory fiber art and spun two bobbins worth of silk singles to ply the mohair with kalapana 2 oz tussah silk by stringtheoryfiberart etsy com i spun the silk at a high twist 17 5 1 and the mohair at a lower one 9 1 to allow for more halo and a look that the silk was holding the mohair together and plied with an even lower ratio 6 1 so i can knit something with drape and on big needles and not worry about it being too round for lace the halo is definitely there and so is the yardage 750yds 105 grams 3 ply silk kid mohair very very soft and warm and makes me appreciate mohair all the more probably not a whole fleece s worth but maybe i ll change that tune when i knit this up into something simple for me so many intentions posted by aija at 5 46 pm 21 comments labels mohair fleece raw fleece spinning thursday august 27 2009 birthdays my mom grew up poor raised by a stepfamily who really couldn t give any shakes for her or my blood uncle consequently she had to procure what i consider necessities for herself starting at a too young age clothing shoes books toiletries there s a story my sister and i were told from that time how mom worked and saved an entire summer for a snow white sweater for the coming school year and how someone else in the household bundled it into the wash ruining it before it was ever worn i can t say i really understand sis and i were raised wanting nothing til the end i can understand the resonance of destruction of work though in a small way cos mom keeps felting the hats i make her now they don t take me a summer and aren t even something i consider work and to be really honest i don t see them as same but as much as i love her am constantly amazed at how nonchalantly she tells me that she has another hat for my son since she s passed one of my handknits thru the wash and it won t fit her anymore i should have started ages ago but it s superwash all the time for mom now she had a birthday and i promised to replace all the hats she s felted this year 3 4 starting with the now felted malabrigo koolhaas koolhaas hat by jared flood started and finished two days in august elann superwash worsted in espresso 1 5 skeins us 7 16 addi natura at least i really enjoy knitting koolhaas i know that it fits lots of heads it fits my son s in width but not depth i m going to make him one with only 3 repeats and it ll be perfect if a little loose is easy to read when knitting away from the pattern and is interesting to knit i don t know if she ll get 4 koolhaas hats in different colors maybe she was kind enough to model the wrap i wove for my sister ages ago who shares a birthday month with mom warp tactile fiber arts superwash merino tencel sock yarn orchid weft hand jive knits nature s palette superwash merino sock yarn odd duck 5 woven on my schacht flip the colors look as if they were made for one another even from different dyers i sought out machine washable for sis as well i wanted her to be able to use this as a nursing wrap if she wanted and know all too well how those can get messy my malabrigo clapotis i used for a nursing coverup had to be washed much more than any other handknit i ve made save socks i also dig that both warp and weft are naturally dyed i have no idea if it will appeal to sis but it sure does to me so does the sheen of the tencel i usually don t like tencel blends in sock yarns too shiny and drape y for my taste here as weft though it s really interesting against the more matte merino warp and gives it a nice fall when worn the wrap s one of those things you hope gets worn outside in daylight but we don t have much control over these things once out of our possession and i m starting to accept that i double threaded the warp edges lower left corner two strands on the beginning and end i don t know if it makes it more stable but at least it can t hurt i also used simple overhand knots on the edging but only 2 strands instead of my usual four i had planned to use one of the many beautiful warp edgings from interweave s compendium of finishing techniques but decided against it since this was a gift and may have been too much for my non knitting non weaving sister who actually is always quite appreciative of fiber gifts but there can be a taste technique disconnect between fiber and non fiber people i like how small the two strand knots are and the contrast between the color of pure warp fringe against the woven fabric one surprise was how little weft i used i used the entire skein of tactile s sw merino tencel 412 yards but only 222 of 370 yards of nature s palette superwash merino no matter the 40 grams will make a sweet cap for baby or maybe a tiny pair of socks for my bigfoot boy i also don t know quite what this will spin into probably something for the holidays for sis since the colors match her wrap so well tactile fiber arts luxury fiber club july 2009 15 5 micron merino 2 oz featured dye logwood purple i was lucky enough along with adrienne to win a 3 month subscription to tactile s fiber club thru phatfiber yes that little box that causes so much fiber furor so nice what to make is the question though socal s not really wrap yourself in wool weather maybe incorporate the leftover nature s palette in as well oy am i talking about holiday knitting already til then at least after weds miss you posted by aija at 11 01 pm 4 comments labels koolhaas hat tactile fiber arts weaving on a rigid heddle loom thursday august 20 2009 grafton fibers colorways fiber batt club i ve been holding out on you i ve been saving all of these lovely amazing beautiful batts for myself they were too precious to even share pictures of meant more than any photographs i could take i have a down day and literally reach for one to hold and pet take deep breaths of and into my happy place the colors and the softness and the potential of each to be something great helps me pick up and go on grafton fibers colorways fiber club march 2009 you think i m joking to carry on about simple fiber like this i m not i own many dictionaries but will never have the words even though sometimes like tonite i just feel like trying i look at each at the individual project patterns and notes linda creates for every shipment and lose myself in what i could make with them she gives you a knitting project a crochet a felt a diy loom one and you believe in yourself in your potential and what you incite i can do this grafton fibers colorways fiber club june 2009 all at once within that last dimension the initial loving gift the fiber here and waiting what it will finally end up as i ve been holding out all over i can t bear to spin them time s changed me from a simple yarn collector to a fiber one each a souvenir of more than the gift more than the anticipation outside the mailbox every month for the physical reminder more than what was ever intended i can t imagine them not living in the perfect square boxes every month i can t imagine moving forward grafton fibers colorways fiber club april 2009 that s not true i can imagine a lot of things i can see an epic afghan big enough for even a broken bed i can see twelve yokes of twelve cardigans bright collars solitarily worn on a black background i can see sets of hats and mittens waiting at the inner door for a family to choose from before venturing into the cold i can see wee baby sweaters and booties imaginary little ones swimming in and growing into rolled up wool sleeves and i can see them sitting forever stacked neatly in the closet pretending they re holding the white boxes together from the inside meltaway center atlases brightly festooned grafton fibers colorways fiber club july 2009 colorful dreams nonetheless willy wonka styles wilder s of course or kurosawa s i m not picky aside from the fact there s always a pattern included with the supersoft ultrasmooth batts and putting aside the nonfading limerence they stoke in me for just a moment please thank you what surprises me most is that i love each batt every month i love that they always work i play enough thought experiments getting lost in each to be able to see how each would spin and work up even if i can t get past the daydreaming phase doesn t mean i don t have favorites grafton fibers colorways fiber club may 2009 inextricably linked purple yours 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