#fiber arts

[swamphagfibers]

Working on a sky themed art piece. Not exactly sure what ill be doing, but it is an experiment. Practice for something bigger i have dreamed about making forever.

[noxx-notions]

Back to basics

Playing around a bit just to confirm that I sadly hate working with perle cotton, and don't really like my midland bobbins. I think I might like the midlands better on a round top pillow. I find them really hard to handle being so thin and light. I think if they were hanging off it would be a bit easier like with the Honiton bobbins

[sakaecupcrochet]

And here it is with the brim finished.

It surprisingly took a lot less yarn than the original did.

I mean look at how much I have left over. I should have taken a before to compare but oh well. I'll probably make another one for him in a different style.

I just happen to find a different one while on YouTube

[sakaecupcrochet]

Okay I don't know how many times I have redone my nephew's bucket, but his head is growing and so I must do my duty and adjust.

Here's the old one I'm going to look up a different way to do the brim.

I'm using a 4.5mm instead of a 3mm. All of my first projects were done with 3.5mm because I didn't own anything bigger.

Being unemployed sucks even more so that I can't give anything adequate so I resort to hand crafts as to somehow make up for it.

[taztopaz]

My spinning wheel treadles to the beat of Billy Idol's Rebel Yell. Neat.

[taztopaz]

I got the spinning wheeeel

Its a double drive which I find is a marvel of human engineering. It has so much character, it's been used and it is missing a few hooks, but it's got signs of being well loved and cared for. The fellow needs a name though. Something that has something with breaking and being repaired or death and rebirth.

[keeperofkats]

So I borrowed this Spinner's Book of Yarn Designs book from my local library's ILL and holy crap it's so good. I never set out to do art yarn, but after a couple years of trying for fine, even work it's so nice to screw around with different techniques that very much stray outside the norm.

Wool is mystery brown and mystery orange from the stash. Orange is s-spun single thick-and-thin, brown is s-spun as fine as I could on this particular flyer. They're plied with the brown tensioned and orange spiraled around it.

I had plenty of leftover brown, so I proceeded to do the same a zillion more times with various sample floofs I had kicking around.

None of this is from TdF, but I realize I keep mentioning this book and its techniques so figured I should go back to the start of my obsession with it.

The yellow/brown or pink/purple might end up as my worsted entry into the local fair. Maybe.