Monthly Archives: February 2005

Smoked Out

Posted on February 2, 2005 by

I got back to my sewing machine. It seems like forever (well it has been over a week!)

I previously posted that I love to draw pears… when I can’t think of anything to draw (most of the time) I draw a pear. Tonight I drew eight… on my sewing machine.

I’m going to connect them all together into with my hand spun wool and they will be a concertina book… like the one I’ve been talking about for the Straight and Narrow Challenge on the QuiltArt list.

In fact this may BE my peice for the S&N challenge, as my childhood memory idea isn’t working for me at the moment.

I was inspired by June Underwood’s burned edge post the other week, so I tried it out on my little pieces. I breathed in a lot of smoke and now my throat is feeling scratchy, so next time I will do it outside. I’m pretty happy with the results but the edges are quite fragile which means they wont make a durable book.

On the spinning side of things. I’ve finished one spool. I tried to spin some merino, but it sucked (as I was told it would), so I’m going to leave it until I’m more experienced, that’s if I don’t felt it first LOL. Continue reading →

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The Journey

Posted on February 1, 2005 by

I almost didn’t blog tonight because as a quilter I’m doing a hell of a lot of spinning and there are only so many photos of a slowly growing spool of yarn that I can post here LOL

It’s mesmerising and I’m definitely making progress. below you can see three examples of the yarn I’ve spun so far.

The white one, I did last night after my first lesson with Bev it’s the precarded Corridale fleece from the Jumbuk in Bairnsdale. The pink is called Ashford Corridale from a little shop called Benambra Blue in Omeo, I spun it during my lunch break today. The grey one I spun tonight, it’s from some lovely fleece Bev gave me to practice on, I don’t know what breed of sheep it’s from but it is lovely and greasy and slides out nicely.

I’m wearing the yarns as bracelets at the moment so I can gaze at them when I’m not spinning LOL And I like to see my progress already from a lumpy yarn to a more even product.

I’m calling this the honeymoon phase, it is a general pattern with me (and others I suspect). I do the ‘new’ thing to the exclusion of other stuff (like sleeping) for the first while until I feel that I have somewhat mastered the basics, then I try to get the balance back… I have to work at getting balance, a continuing life goal for me LOL

With that said, I am determined to SEW tommorow. No sketching, no frigging around thinking about stuff, I’m just gonna get that sewing machine pumping! I WILL show something other than yarn tommorow.

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