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Another 100g finished. 75/25 zwartbles/silk. Gradient dyed. Intended for warp. Spun straight through from end to end. The second braid I will break down into small strips and spin into a short repeated gradient skein and that one will be weft. This is the furthest I’ve ever gotten on a planned spin to weave project which is very exciting!
Is this not the cutest possible way to package a single rolag @milkweedman
:3 I thought so too, glad you like it lol
So way back when I first started blending up heather swatches I said I was going to make a guide out of all of them and I meant it!! I've spent the last few weeks photographing, color correcting, editing, and creating little color cards for each of the 99 color swatches. (I thought there were 100, I was wrong) Plus some color wheels and diagrams. It's a ton of work but has been very fun for me :) I plan to write up a little blog about the process of creating the heathers too, which is less fun for me. But I did take plenty of pictures as I worked so hopefully I can let the images do most of the talking.
I'm almost done with all the image editing which is great and exciting since that's the bulk of the project. I have a ton of other blog topics and experiments I want to run off and do, but I'm making sure I finish this first!
^Here are a couple of the color cards since I know they're hard to see in the screenshot. And don't worry, there will be a key letting you know which dye each color abbreviation refers to :^)
This work in progress is at least year old of not older
you may be wondering why I'm posting pictures of random towels and the answer is that I MADE them on a LOOM and it took me the better part of a year but they are DONE
they're a five-shaft waffle weave. it's kind of a shame that you can't see the structure of the waffles as well off the loom (they're very pretty), but they're so plush i'm not that fussed about it
please admire the waffles
more process pics under the read more
TdF day 8!
Started on one of the batts I got the other day, Summer Sunset. Pulled it into roving as i find that makes it easier to keep the gradient. Planning on chain plying
how did you pull the batt into roving? Like which technique/which direction etc?
Up til now I have only ever ripped batts into vertical stripes which would be contraproductive to keep a gradient
Asking for my own batts I ideally manage to spin during the tour which need to keep their gradient
I roll it into a giant rolag and then pull along the length of the giant rolag so it’s more manageable to spin from
(I will probably do the same with the other batt, so if this is unclear remind me tomorrow and I’ll take pictures of the process)
sorry, I don't fully get in which direction you roll and pull?
Maybe you could take a few pictures of the process? That would be helpful.
I apologise for my terrible, ‘should have been sleeping’-time answer
First you have your nice pretty batt
And you unroll it
Then you reroll it lengthwise into a big rolag
Then you gently pull from one of the ends along the length of the big rolag
I then like to wind it into a rough ball for safe keeping
Thank you! Yes, now I get it and will try it out... although my batts are more compacted. I hope I can do it nonetheless.
Red-Bordered Emerald Moth (Nemoria lixaria)
This is one of my pieces up for auction to raise money for Gaza Soup Kitchen: https://www.32auctions.com/organizations/120568/auctions/186107/auction_items/6340324
(There is also so much other amazing art up for auction as well!)
Runs from Aug 15 to Aug 22nd.
Made some needle felted buddies this weekend.
My linen quilt is finished!! This was made from all leftover linen from garments i've made- i always get way too much yardage, whoops- except the black. I was planning on using the black for garment things but then i had this quilt idea, so, pivoted.
This was a beast but im so so happy with how it turned out. Shes very moody.
It was machine pieced but hand quilted. I really fell in love with hand quilting while making this! Throwing on an audio book and just sewing for 3ish hours in the evenings was lovely and calming.
And if you ever want to quilt with linen, spray starch is your best friend. Lots of spray starch.
Also a lil banner i whipped up after from an extra repeat block i had!
Hannelie Coetzee (South African) - Hyena Clan V (ink and rooibos tea on paper, 2023, Eco Queer Creature Series)
Nyishi. Scanned from the book L'Inde des tribus oubliées; 1993; Tiziana & Gianni Baldizzone
The Spinner.
wait you understand that kinks are ok because they're fantasies that make you happy right? you all get that you don't need to have trauma for your kinks to be okay? right? like none of you think i witnessed a tragic accident on the pool toy assembly line right?
like "some people work through their personal issues with kink" was a good first step for some of the class that were struggling but i think now we're ready for "things that don't hurt anyone and make people happy are okay even if you personally think it's icky"
BECAUSE ROUGE THE BAT DRAWN AS WIDE AS SHE IS TALL WITH TITS TO MATCH KILLED MY GRANDMA, OKAY?
Sorry, my what? My pronouns? Oh, yeah I'm between genders at the moment. No, it's cool, I quit my last gender a little while ago because it really wasn't working out. I don't know if I even have a dream gender anymore.
Oh yeah, it did come with benefits, but they weren't really worth it. The culture was really toxic. To be honest I think I'd prefer a part-time gender so I can just be self-described in my spare time.
I mean, in a perfect world we wouldn't need gender, you know? We could just voluntarily be perceived as much as we're able, as much as makes us feel fulfilled. Having a full-time gender shouldn't be a prerequisite for food, shelter, and healthcare.
test weaving of penelope's tapestry on the chiusi skyphos:
reference:
there are some adjustments I need to make for tension, but I'd like to make the next version into a header band for a warp-weighted loom so I can try weaving the whole pot, including telemachus and penelope.
progress?
the proportions on the header band have improved, but I think I maybe should have doubled the weft threads for the warp.
also if anyone wants to knit the heddles for me, please be my guest. the last time I tied on heddles, I put the bar in the wrong place and had to redo the whole thing.
in true penelope fashion, I may need to unweave and start over, but at least now I've got the loom weights and heddles in place.
I started weaving the spear, penelope, and the right border via double-weave with the intent to leave the remaining warp threads unwoven (as they would be on penelope's loom on the pot), but predictably this is giving me tension problems. I either need to increase the loom weights or just weave the black layer and leave the orange warp threads unwoven, and then switch colors once I get to the heddle bars in the drawing, with the black warp threads floating on top. (I guess weft-faced tapestry would be a third option, if I add a ton more tension.)
either way, this is going to take me the full three years of penelope's stratagem, or perhaps the entire twenty years of odysseus's absence, primarily because clearing the sheds takes a monumental effort each time with this double-weave setup (which I'm not even sure is how it's supposed to be done, I kind of set it up based on vibes and what I thought made sense from floor loom setups).
I have 999 problems and warp tension is 997 of them (the other two are my selvedges).
I decided to try out whittling this summer because I am an adult so no-one can tell me to stop playing with knives recently bought a hair stick from a ren faire and found using it much kinder on my fine hair than a regular hairtie.
I made it from an apple tree that grows in front of my great-grandmothers house where I spend my summers. I like the idea of being able to wear my favourite places as self-made items, so maybe I'll make more of these in the future.
Tomorrow I will try to stain it a little darker with tea and iron. I don't necessarily want people to think i'm walking around with a chicken bone in my hair.
The tea worked ok as a woodstain, but I didn't like the color on the iron-infused vinegar treated sample. I think i'm going to oil & roast the wood in an oven tomorrow for a final color & finish!
My goodness what a difference oiling and toasting does! I did a very minimal oiling with walnut oil and roasted 30 mins in 180ish degrees celcius oven. Now it matches the color of my hair much better and smells lovely!
