Mar 19, 2019
In this episode we introduce ourselves, tell you why we
started this podcast and discuss several of our latest
projects.
Introductions
We are long time friends who were brought together by fiber
arts! We first met each other living in the UK. Michelle is back
living in the US and Erica still lives in the UK.
We were inspred to start this podcast by The Two Ewes Fiber
Adventures Podcast. We look forward to talking
to each other about our fiber arts on a regularly basis, like we
used to when we lived close by and we hope you enjoy our
conversations too!
Michelle is the maker behind Valdelia Maker, the mother of two
amazing young girls!
Erica is a teacher and co-owner of Weavolution.com
Where to find us, Weavolution, Ravelry, Instagram,
other?
Michelle is
Ravelry:
MichelleTF
Instagram:
michelletfcrafts
Facebook:
Valdelia Maker
Erica is
Weavolution: Erica J, Jahanara, or Weavolutionary
Ravelry: jahanarabanu
Instagram: erica7135
Facebook: Weavolution
Projects
Needle felted sorting hat
Incomplete. Sorting hat from the Harry Potter series. Next
steps making and adding brim and face/wrinkles
Lincoln fleece acquired and washed
Gynx Yarn Shawl:
Erica knits Portuguese style, using a knitting pin. She
learned this style of knitting from
Andrea Wong's class Introduction to Portuguese knitting. Erica
is working on knitting a crescent shawl using Gynx yarns,
unfortunately she can not find the ball band, so she can't remember
the colorway. She is using the semi-circushawl formula from
Laura Nelkin's Bluprint class
Shawls 14 ways. She has learned a lot about knitting through
this process, most especially that she still needs to loosen up her
tension!
Knitting Norrland hat for a friend.
White is "natural". blue is a combination of "brilliant blue"
and "royal blue"
Crystal Fox
Needle felted sloth:
Incomplete. Following a tutorial by Kiyoshi Mino from Living
Felt. next steps will be finishing the face.
Damask warp:
Erica wove an apprentice belt in damask, photo below is before
the ends were trimmed, yes this photo was taken on the purple couch
I mentioned. 🙂 For more information on the apprentice
belt, see my project page.
Erica has also woven off the rest of this 30/2
Gemstone Silk warp. Much of the remaining warp was woven
using the same pearl roundel pattern and a lotus design from Nancy
Arthur Hoskins. This will be made into a headdress
fir Mistress Rogned.
Sheep/alpaca/llama pattern
Pattern complete for all three. Need to write up into proper
pattern to be edited and test crocheted.
I'm particularly proud of the sheep
Carding Icelandic Fleece
Fleece from Icelandic ram named Louie from Queso Cabeza farm
here in southern Michigan.
First pass:
Finished batt:
Finally Erica is knitting swatches using the
Replish Rambouillet she won in a drawing done by our favorite
podcasters, The Two Ewes Fibre Adventures. The swatch done on 5.5
mm Chiagoo Circular needles is done and she has started a swatch on
4.0 mm needles.
