So here it is, off the loom. This is not a big item – I think I’ll fold it in half, with the fringys out, and call it a zippered wallet. That is, after I sew a zipper in it. But it was fun, and didn’t take very long – about 2 hours including the warping of the loom. I think I could do two of them in three hours time, if I do them on the same warp. Playing with the colors was particularly enjoyable. No right or wrong here! Continue reading Handspun, handwoven, Part 2
(as usual, click to make it bigger) Why yes, I had a good Christmas. Daan and I had to burn some time in a Wisconsin antiques barn, and they had not one, but about FIFTEEN spinning wheels. This is, of course, because I stood outside in the rainy parking lot and said, where the fairies could hear, "Wouldn’t it be funny if we found some spinning stuff here?" So I spent a couple hundred dollars on this wheel, and… a weasel, and a pair of carding paddles. A weasel is a kind of swift, which is doing above what most … Continue reading Meet Maud, my Irish spinning wheel
I suppose I ought to apologize for leaving you for our Christmastide travels without posts. Sorry about that. But boy, is there good stuff piled around the cottage these days! Behold, my first handspun, being handwoven! (Click to make it bigger – you know you want to.) Wondrous and amazing, yes? I got a drop spindle kit back in early November, and it came with this pinky purple mohair. I knit (check out the gallery in the sidebar sometime soon when I get it updated) and had access to this loom when I was a kid, but had never turned … Continue reading First Handspun