#things i made!

[disasterbiwriter]

@applesforthis A girlfriend and I went together to this pop up (we got influenced 😅🤪)

[fiberandfancysticks]

Remember that black-and-white fingerwoven strap I made, ages ago? The one that seemed too short to be useful? Turns out, it's perfect for my car keys!

And my brother saw it, right around his birthday, and said "Hey, could you make me one that matches my car???"

And so, here we are! :D:D:D

[ultimateaclrecovery]

I knitted myself a shirt!! It’s purple and has lace and I really like it!

I maybe need to wet block it still or maybe just see the sides up further since it sticks out kind of funny near the busy but overall I’m really pleased with how it came out. It was first time doing any sort of lace in knitting and I can’t believe how easy it was. Maybe I’ll try cabling next.....

[fiberandfancysticks]

Oh, right, I have a blog for sharing pretty things I make!

Blackwork embroidery is FUN! :D I've been working on this on and off since around thanksgiving -- because I was looking for THE TINIEST knitting needles, I ended up diving into counted-thread embroidery of various types.

(the squares are from three different sampler patterns by loose thread stitchery on etsy -- their patterns are LOVELY and I highly recommend them, if you want to try this!!!)

[fiberandfancysticks]

Okay, well, I GUESS it's pretty! But this (knitting!) is still a RIDICULOUS way to make a FLAT thing in the round! So I probably won't make the rest of the blanket this was a test hexagon for.

Probably.

...

right?

Also, I guess it was a good thing that I haven't yet thrown out the styrofoam blocks my new toilet came in? XD I would not have expected it to be such a GOOD blocking surface!

[fiberandfancysticks]

My current weaving project is (intended to be) a set of placemats for my mom! Thus far, it is an Adventure in using the full width of my 20" table loom, every single one of my loom's heddles (plus a few repair heddles for a threading mistake and for the shaft that had SLIGHTLY fewer heddles than the rest!)

I discovered that my previous solution for separating layers of warp (old cereal boxes opened up into wide, long, weird cardboard shapes) weren't actually wide enough when I was using THE ENTIRE WIDTH of the loom... so I bought this lovely roll of heavy cardboard paper, my friend trimmed it to size with a bandsaw (? I think?) and it fits PERFECTLY inside my loom, and works SO MUCH BETTER than the cereal boxes!

...I also discovered that none of the shuttles I'd been using previously were long enough for projects this wide, so I have three looong thin dowels and a weaving sword from a backstrap loom pressed into service as shuttles.

I spent FOREVER trying to decide what pattern to weave, after making the warp... and settled on a rather simple twill, but I changed the direction with each color change, and it is, in fact, looking REALLY COOL!

... now I'm just hoping they all come out reasonably the same sized!

[fiberandfancysticks]

Some days, you discover a Fun New Way to make blankets out of squares, and decide to try it!

It's fun to work on knitting something where progress is Highly Visible and I don't need several charts and notebooks to keep track of the pattern! So that's what I've been working on, these past few days, as a break!