Tag Archive for 'weaving'

Finished Scarf

Published
by
robayre
on July 12, 2008
in General Update
. 1 Comment


I started this weaving back in february, and it has mostly sat on the shelf since I moved.  Last weekend I took it out and began working on it again and realized it goes a lot faster than I had remembered.

I blogged about it back here when I began, when I just wanted to basically teach myself to weave. Unfortunately, I decided early on, why not go the distance and make a whole scarf, while I’m learning? Fortunately it wasn’t hard to pick up. Unfortunately, again, since I was just beginning, I didn’t want to waste a ton of my own handspun yarn, so I chose to use dumpy ol’ acrylic for the warp, but a beautiful handspun for the weft.

Still I like the way it turned out. I still need to wash it and I worry that it will shrink up or get all lumpy and bumpy because of the two mixed materials. Right now it is about 5 feet long and I’ll say maybe 4 or 5 inches wide.
Now, I’ve got some new ideas for weaving that won’t be so time consuming.

Have a great weekend everyone!

FIXED

Published
by
robayre
on February 25, 2008
in General Update
. 7 Comments

YAYAYAYAYYAY! My site seems to be back up and running, weeeee! I am sooo excited. I’ve updated wordpress and I am working on choosing a new theme and creating a new banner. I think I might even change it up quarterly, to keep things fresh. Wordpress will now handle all those pesky spam comments, and I even get email notifications when I get real comments. I’ve gotten 5 already! Rosa, your “people behind the people” comment had me cracking up.

Little known fact: not only am I an inspiration junkie, but I’m a comment junkie as well :)

So, Erin gave me this garage sale loom a long time ago and I’ve never used it before. I never took weaving in college, it was one of the few that slipped through my fingers. I’ve never had any instruction, other than what was written on the inside of the lid of the box this loom came in. I’ve been wanting to break it out for a while, but it was a few pictures of woven ties and scarves from Intertwined, that finally made me break the box out.

I am such a nooooooooooob.
Yeah, the warp is a crap acrylic yarn, while the weft is a beautiful handspun yarn, and yeah, I just threw around weaving terms like I know what I’m talking about, and not like I had to actually look them up on the back of the box that this loom came in, lol. It’s no amazing piece of work, but not too shabby for a first try. I can’t seem to get it real tight and solid, but I think that has more to do with the junk yarn that I used.