I finished another pair of socks. The yarn is from Temu (it is actually quite nice – Opal). I think it’s 5ply or 6ply rather than my normal 4 ply. I cast on 48 stitches instead of 64, but they are quite snug.
A K2P2 rib and then a plain vanilla sock with a heel flap and gusset.
Filed under Knitting, Sock Knitting, Yarn Stash
Rebecca Devaney from Textile Tours of Paris had a sale. And I couldn’t resist more antique French tea towels and au ver à soie silk threads (I have quite a collection of them now).
As always, it came beautifully packaged (it even smells nice) with a little gift (the blue checked fabric is a little bag).
Filed under Embroidery, Fabric Stash, Inspiration, Purchases
I have an inkle loom – I have made two rather dodgy bands.
I have had this book since 2021, but I hadn’t read it properly.
Here’s the blurb …
Narrow bands of woven tape were important to Americans in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, before the days of elastic and zippers. This book documents the fascinating American history of handwoven tape and offers patterns and instructions to enable today’s weavers to make it. Many Early American households had a tape loom for making the tape needed by the family, and this book offers a discussion of the people who wove tape, the patterns woven, and the types of looms used, along with over 280 color images. The book also gives step-by-step instructions for setting up a tape loom with warp threads, and explains how to weave your own tape. You can weave tape for similar practical uses as our forebears, or to create one-of-a-kind gifts and decorations like key chains, holiday garlands, or lanyards.
It was very interesting – I enjoyed the history of the various looms, and how people used the tape and then the quick demise when industrial made tape appeared on the scene.
I am keen to try some of the drafts on my Inkle loom.
There were some ideas for modern projects with the tapes, but I am not sure how popular they would be (maybe with recreators?).
Here is a post Kate Davies did about her weaving. Reading her adventures spurred me on to buy an inkle loom.
Filed under Book Review, Inkle Loom, inkle loom, weaving
I made a scarf, it’s blocking at the moment.
I used recycled sari silk from the Thread Studio.
The pattern is the Boomerang Shawl.
Mine is quite small, I will need to use a shawl pin to wear it. I should have bought two balls and just kept going.
Filed under Knitting, Patterns, Yarn Stash
Project 2 from the School Girl Stitching Club (From the Crewel Gobelin) has arrived.
Have I done anything with project 1? No, I have not. These samplers are beautiful and they come beautifully packaged with lovely materials.
This one has, in addition, a little project we can work on, with all of the finishing materials.
Filed under Canvas Work, Cross Stitch, Cross Stitch, Embroidery, Inspiration, Purchases
I finished another pair of socks (I think that’s three for the year – I was aiming for one a month but that’s not happening).
There is a K2P2 rib, and then just stocking stitch. Heel flap and gusset.
Here is the information about yarn and needle size.
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I seem to be on a cushion thing, first the needle cushion and now I have made a pin cushion.
It is a machine embroidery in the hoop project from Urban Threads. I changed the colours because I wanted to use silver rather than gold. My software changed the first three colours (after the tacking down) into one colour, so it doesn’t have as much depth of colour.
The base fabric is canvas.
I am happy to have got my machine out and created something.
Filed under Digitizing, Embroidery, Fabric Stash, Machine Embroidery
Once we had finished our toadstools, we needed a new project, but it needed to be quick (we only had two lessons left)
We made needle sharpening strawberries -the bottom two-thirds is filled with black emery powder.
My base fabric is a pink dupion silk (shot with green). I have used au ver á soie silk d’alger threads.
I wanted to practise my bullion knots, so I have made bullion knot flowers and the centres are french knots. I then used fern stitch to create the vine (I saw it in the book Foolproof Flower Embroidery )
Then I added seed beads, bugle beads and sequins.
I used my cricut machine to cut felt leaves for the top. And I found two metal (plastic) leaves for the top (I think they’re jewellery charms).
I made the cord using a drill and pearl cotton (here’s a tutorial video)
Filed under Embroidery, Fabric Stash, Inspiration
My Summer Celebration box from the Stitchery arrived – I pre-ordered this months ago.
There was also some Acufactum fabric, which, I think I will use for English Paper Piecing.
I am glad I ordered this. It was quite expensive (especially considering the state of the Australian dollar), but it gorgeous.
Filed under Cross Stitch, Embroidery, English Paper Piecing, Inspiration, Purchases
The yarn is Schoppel Zauberball.
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