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ained movement when worn a hint of ruffle or grace at the edge echoing the staggered increases a ridiculously simple and effective pattern i keep thinking that this would be a great beginner project so much better than a scarf just knit and purl with lots of practice the first rounds would be closer to the body and hidden the cast off edge is the display side and after so many stitches any new knitter would have to have improved not to say more experienced knitters wouldn t enjoy it it replaced my walkaround socks mindless knitting project for those times when my hands just couldn t be still and needed something to touch the real joy was the yarn though working with my handspun and in so visible a project i can see how consistent my spinning was with every bit pf progress and it thrills me because that s just what i was trying for a definite lesson learned that i am applying to my current fleece to sweater project i ve finally picked it up again my gorgeous painfully true black sweater from trueblack fleece marble peaks ranch breeds for true black corriedale and corrie x rambouillet sheep they show and win ribbons for both sheep and fleece an anomaly among shepherds and i just love the black fleece i won at last year s auction the same one i used in the english combs combing post i didn t allow myself to buy another black fleece at monterey this year since i needed to finish this sweater but bet you me it ll be done soon cos i want another marble peaks fleece the reason i stopped knitting on this was partly because i started spinning for the tour but also because the skein i m knitting with is visibly lighter than the previous ones i d say shaping and design detail but it s 11 in from the bottom and at a weird spot on the bust you can see i just crumpled the poor wip up in exasperation i think i ll just set the lighter skein aside and start spinning again all of the yarn i need to complete the sweater even consistent yarn the lesson taken away from the tour for me missed you posted by aija at 4 17 pm 8 comments labels knitting with handspun woolgathering cardigan yvonne zimmermann thursday september 03 2009 two new ways to use your schacht flip rigid heddle loom schacht spindle co recently celebrated their 40th anniversary with a contest both for spinning and weaving novices and experts one option was to upload videos to youtube of schacht products or weaving spinning contest entries on the schacht tools so of course i had to go that route i ve been thinking about the contest for a while and tho i didn t feel i had any chance against true expert spinners i entered my tour de fleece skein and my mohair silk i just wrote about in the spinning 2 years expert category i did think i should use the weaving contest portion as an opportunity to look at my flip in a different way you may remember i love using the textures and patterns for the rigid heddle book as inspiration hopefully these vids will inspire someone else first i used the flip as a frame for tablet card weaving and wove a beautiful 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 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