I originally thought I’d use a piece of split black leather I got from Gulf Wars. But Lavena looked at it, and at the watch, and said, "Come with me."  She proceeded into a back bedroom and proceeded to throw incredibly soft leather pieces at me.  "This is deer" and "elk" and "here’s some partially done gloves" and "check out these shoes" (which happened to fit me, so of course I want to do them next).  Clearly the GW remnant wasn’t going to work. I took up her offer of the deer, and here’s the finished watch, with fingerbraided lanyard.  … Continue reading Daan’s watchcover

Here’s one finished pair, slightly fulled (felted): Cool, huh?  Well, actually, warm…I’m thinking about putting leather on the soles, to make them better dancing shoes. I have enough Lamb’s Pride Worsted to do another pair, so I’m going to – seeing as shoes wear out rather quickly. This pair will have pointed toes. Continue reading Eastern European Knitted Footlets

NEXT STEPS:Transfer large pic of flax and map to muslin.Compose captions for flax, cotton, camel – alpaca, and fiber, print out.Blanketstitch flax illustration and remaining captions.String together first fiber panel.Design illustrated versions of E-U-R-O-P-ATransfer EUROPA to mapStart embroidering map – look for embroidery references. Continue reading Fiber’s NJFE Illustrations on Muslin

I went to my first weaving club meeting on Saturday. It was interesting – and did two things for my motivations: (1) Got me very interested in the 4-harness weaving book that Ann lent me; and (2) I signed up to cover tablet weaving for the June off-loom weaving survey meeting. So I read about half the book, yesterday, while knitting on the French Market bag (not on the Open Projects list…I know, I know, but it’s a stash buster) and determined that I’m going to be weaving a First Project Scarf.  (Sigh – we have zero uses for scarves.  … Continue reading Weaver’s Guild

5/28 – Nearly done – one set of side seams left to flatfell, and the hems.——————5/15 – In my latest wave of deluded naive mania, I have decided to HANDSEW Spoon’s shirt.  This started with wanting to canoodle sit in front of the tv with Daan, rather than over in the corner making a racket with the sewing machine.  I had to piece the sleeves together, because I was feeling frugal with the saffron linen.  And if I was going to piece them, why not use insertion stitch, so they’d have a little more ventilation?  And if I was going … Continue reading Spoon’s Saffron Shirt