2013

As Planned - Some Spinning

I have been glued to my spinning wheel this week and the grey fleece (my major project) is nearing the end. The little sample of white merino is finished, it was difficult to spin…

I'll Be Spinning

I watch the Tour de France every year (even though this doping stuff pisses me off and tests my patience) and this year I’ll also be participating in the Tour de FLEECE at the…

Grapevine Tea Towels

Some ‘finished’ photos: I used a draft called 8 Thread Herringbone from A Handweaver’s Pattern Book by Marguerite P. Davison. I used this draft on the little twill tape I made a…

Done!

Phew! I am sooooo glad that I’ve finished this warp, the problems at the start made it feel like the project was dragging on a little but too long. The problems I was having did…

Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds

I want to mark here, the death of my cat Lucy at 16 years of age. I was still at university when I went to the South Hobart Cats Home with my flatmates to pick out a kitten. I…

Screaming Weaving

This was intended to be a quick little towel warp and I wanted to focus on fun stuff like treadle tie ups and adjustments. But with this loom, with this warp, with this project; I…

Threading

Weaving Big

This has happened in my life since I last posted: It is a Glimakra Standard Counterbalance loom with 120cm weaving width, 8 shafts and 10 treadles (actually 9 treadles because as…

A Really Big Pillow

This was meant to be a stash busting project; busting all my stash of 8ply knitting wool that I probably wont knit. The problem was: Most of my stash was used up in the warp which…

A quick scarf

The yarn was chosen by Jasper and given to me for my birthday. I wove it into a scarf and gave it back to Jasper 😀 Self striping sock yarn looks great in a weave!

This Tomato Life

Twill Tape

Spin and Weave

I bought a beautiful grey sheeps fleece – oh how I love to sniff wool – its my kind of heaven. I washed, carded and spun. Then I wove. This is a huck draft. And the red was a…