#fiber arts

[owlspinningyarns]

good news, i have in fact been spinning for Tour de Fleece

meh news, i have not been posting about it because i'm tired

so here's a day whatever it is round up of some yarns i have recently plyed. haven't gotten around to washing them yet but i'm happy with them all

[knittingontheroad]

i got behind on TDF because Tuesday on the road I was wracked with pain. Thought it was a kidney stone attack, and I was afraid it was a life-threatening repeat of last November. It was all I could do to make it back to the local terminal, using all but an hour of my 14-hour clock. I had me kid pick me up.

Yesterday I spent most of the day at the hospital, racking up a different kind of pain: medical debt because our insurance is terrible (UHC).

Anyway it wasn't kidney stones. It was a GALLSTONE attack, because apparently I don't have enough things wrong with me. I MUST overachieve at any cost.

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I thought I would love this yarn. The original braid was Harvest colors: plummy purple into orange into lime green.

But as I spin it, the purple just looks brown; the lime green just looks a sickly yellow-green, and half the braid is going to be shades of orange. I'm afraid I'm going to end up with mud that I don't like and can't even sell.

I'm doing a terrible job of spinning it. It's been several years since I've spindle-spun, and I'm getting a slubby, fingering-to-lace weight mess.

I've started at each end of the color spectrum for plying. These are bumps 1 & 2, and 13 & 12. I'm a day behind, but if I spin 2 bumps tomorrow I'll be caught up. These spindles are currently at about 20 grams each.

I started the darker end on this spindle, but it gave me problems. It's hard to spin fine, because the whorl is 2" wide stone and it's a 3/8" shaft. I like this spindle (which I made), but it's for thicker yarns, because it's heavy.

[movahkiin]

TdF day 12

This is my first Turkish spindle and oh my wordddd I finally get the hype. This is shaping up to be laceweight even as a 3 ply 😍

[elizabethofthepasture]

me because i’ve started stitching my twin peaks sampler!!!!!

i have so much more to do but i’m so excited :)

and to all who are interested in stitching it up yourself, fear not, once i’ve completed my sample and there’s no mistakes or issues, the pattern will be made available on my kofi!!

feel free to follow me if you’d like to get updates, and if you’re only interested in the twin peaks sampler i have tagged all relevant posts with “twin peaks sampler”

[matriarchy-au]

Fransisca Moiwo wearing a hand-woven bilum top

"My mother taught me to weave bilum when I was a little girl. That is the tradition in my country. Even now, I am still learning from other ladies too. Sometimes they teach me new patterns that are designed now. But the traditional bilum I learned from my mother and grandmother.

In Chimbu province we make traditional bilums using natural plant fibres. We have a distinct style called Simbu-tan. We use traditional dyes made from tubers and leaves to colour the bilums red, black, and blue.

Fransisca harvests specialised plants used for dying bilum from her garden

It’s quite a long process, especially for natural fibre bilums. We have to cut the plants and get the materials to dye it from the garden. We have to trim the fibre, dry it, then we have to peel the skins of the parts of plants used for dying. When the fibres are ready, we twist it again, and we dye it, and then we start weaving the bilum."

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[matriarchy-au]

Sharing Wik Mungkan culture with the next generation

[thread-goblin]

Just combining my fiber arts willy nilly

[n3rvous-r4ts]

Leetle bookmark

We wanted to focus more on the braiding on this one, it was our first time doing a 4 strand braid and wanted to focus on that more than the actual weaving and wanted to have the braid long enough w/o making a super long bookmark