Aug 30, 2020
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Intro and Outro Music: Sundown by Joseph McDade, thank
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Finished Objects!
Michelle
Erica
TJ's Socks!!! Erica finished knitting the socks for her son, TJ. He
loves them and has been dancing and sliding around the living room
in them. :)
Erica finished weaving off her handspun warp for TJ. It still needs
the weft thread ends trimmed and the fringe twisted (if he is going
to use it as a scarf). He probably wouldn't use a bag and seems to
like it as a quite long scarf!
Masks :)
Ginny Cardigan swatches Deep Cove Handspun, Saltwater woolen prep 3
ply handspun, Nightshades
Works in Progress
Michelle
Erica
Erica has been weaving away on the damask with the Treeenway
Silks Zolo Borello colourway weft. She has done a lot of
thinking about how to handle the possibility that there will be
variances between the different dyed skeins, it will take about 4
skeins. Erica decided that in the Middle Ages, based on the
textiles she has studied, that weavers would keep with one skein
until the end of a repeat. This is based on studying partial
textiles which do not show any variance in weft color within a
single repeat.
Here is the damask photo with two different dyes lots.
Here is the damask woven using the only one skein.
Do you see a difference? :)
Erica has cast on another pair of socks for her husband, Oli. The
whole family now has one pair of hand knit socks. Erica is
considering. over time, knitting 4-5 pairs of socks for each family
member. Stay tuned. :)
Erica is also working on finishing the seams on her handwoven robe.
In order to finish the hems, she has started warping a narrow, long
linen warp to weave a reinforcement for her robe. This decision is
based on the The Metropolitian Museum's analysis of a 7th C Persian
Riding Coat.
Erica took her knitted shawl out of hybernation. This shawl is knit
on 5.5 mm Signature Needle Arts needles, in a fingering weight yarn
from The Two Ewes!