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Beaded Bookmarks

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The A&S crowd gathered at Seneschal Gabrielle’s on Sunday night to get something together for a probable craft fair come April.  I had the idea to copy a beaded bookmark, that I received as a gift last Yuletide. So here’s the results.  We managed to get twelve done in five hours, leaving time for munching, gossiping, and laughing, of course.  I think twelve is enough if we have several other sorts of things, like: Felt helmsEmbroidered games – Nine Men’s Morris, Fox and GeeseFlower wreathsPlacemats with culinary images + recipes, suitable for framing – we discussed this idea in lieu … Continue reading Beaded Bookmarks

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Handspun, handwoven, Part 2

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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

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Meet Maud, my Irish spinning wheel

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(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

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First Handspun

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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