Showing posts with label weaving. Show all posts
Showing posts with label weaving. Show all posts

Sunday, March 20, 2011

Doh!

Almost made it! Time to ply the last of the wool I had been spinning.

I seriously thought I had enough green and blue for those two colors to be the only ones on this little box.

I enjoyed spinning the yarn on a drop spindle. It was a color sample pack I picked up somewhere. I would take my drop spindle all over with me and attract attention. People would ask questions, and I'd show them my spinning. They would ask what I was going to make. "Yarn"! It was too scratchy for anything you would wear as a knit, and too little of it for weaving on the loom.

Then I started this little box while waiting for my daughter to get off my warping board. I found the perfect use for my hanging yarn wall decorations! Not sure what I'm going to do with a little yarn basket bag, but it is more compact than skeins on my wall.

Sunday, February 13, 2011

Cotton/Bamboo Twill


33 inches wide by 5 yards, brown mercerized cotton warp, black bamboo weft.
Still a beginner, but having a blast. I'm not sure what I am going to make out of it. I'm thinking a big bucket purse or two. The end fringe might be a nice touch to a bag. This was my second project on my loom. My fist, a twill sampler helped me choose my favorite twill to play with. I have started a patterns weaving class now, while my daughter is taking the beginning class I took to learn twill.