It smells lovely out this time of year
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I finally finished weaving my snowy band! Instead of being done and moving on, I've decided to sew a little drawstring project bag to feature it. This will be the first time I've incorporated my weaving into a larger project, which I've been meaning to do for a while now! It'll also be my first time sewing a bag.
I was planning on embroidering a couple scattered stars on the fabric to tie it into the band, but things quickly got out of hand.
Several days and many, many, podcasts later, this is where I'm at. The embroidery is done, and I've very roughly mocked up the bag so I can plan out the rest of it. The starry fabric to the left will be the bag's lining.
I really want to weave or braid the drawstrings with the remainder of the loom waste, but it's all a bit too short. I don't think it'd be worth knotting them together to add length. Currently debating what to do. (I played and won a dangerous game of yarn chicken with 3/5 of the fibers I used. The loom waste is all I've got)
And we're done!
I'm so happy with how it turned out! Thanks to various interfacings and the lining, the bag stands up nicely on its own but is still soft and crumply.
Having a white flannel bottom was objectively a bad call, but it had to be done. For the aesthetics. Star shaped stitching was also non-negotiable.
Drawstring holes were stitched up with more handspun yarn. It took a long time for me to decide what I wanted to do for the drawstrings themselves. I eventually decided to try tubular weaving, which was a great call. Weaving plainweave tubes is so fast??? Extremely satisfying after how painfully slow the band was.
I see more woven cordage and handmade bags in my future.
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Arthur Hughes (British, 1830-1915) - A Passing Cloud
Source: christies.com
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I picked up an Ashford Country Spinner recently for chunky yarns and decided she needed a personal touch!
I’ve named her Ava.
She currently has 15 warbler species and a Hermit Thrush completed, but I’ll be adding more on other surfaces little by little! I went with a heavily simplified, pretty stylized style and I’m loving how it’s turning out.
The next few I’m working on are all 4 species of North American nuthatches on each side corner
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Stefan Johansson - Street Lights along Klarälven River (1941)
Source: boijmans.nl
hello! I’ve been totally enchanted by your band weaving and am getting ready to try some myself! You recently mentioned a technique where the warp threads could be two different colours in the same slot, are you willing to share how you do that?
Love to hear that!! Having "one" warp end switch between two colors is fairly straightforward:
- Warp two colors through one slot in the heddle
- Drop the color you don't want to the bottom of the shed (so it passes below the shuttle)
- Repeat for each row you weave
Above is an example of what the warp could look like. (Note: this band is warped for double-faced weaving, not baltic pick-up, but the basic concept of two colors through one slot remains the same)
A few things to be wary of:
If you are using the dual color technique for your pattern threads in baltic pick-up (or any supplementary warp weaving), you'll want to be mindful of when you switch from one color to the next.
Distortions: The two colors are going to sit side by side. This means that if you switch immediately from one to the other, they will appear to twist around each other instead of stacking cleanly. You can see this in the flowers below, or, more clearly, in the circled section on the back of the same band.
If there is a blank row between the colors the distinction between the two will be cleaner. You can see this in the x pattern between the flowers.
Float length: Another thing to be mindful of is the length of the floats. When one color sits on top, the other sits on the bottom as a float until it's brought back up again. Really, this just means that you'll have to switch between the two colors fairly frequently if you want nice short floats. If you plan to sew the band down to something when you're done, the float length doesn't matter as much. It's just prone to catching on things!
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twisting and bitturning
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"quick meal for when you're low on spoons!" *involves chopping vegetables* *uses a stove* *includes condiments* *involves letting something set/rest/simmer* *requires multiple kitchen items that will need to be washed* *estimated prep time: 30–45 minutes*
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Apparently collecting empty eggshells, coloring them, filling them with confetti and then cracking them over eachother's heads isn't something everyone does during easter...........we used to find confetti in our hair for days after
Btw they're called "cascarones" and it's a very common Mexican tradition. there's a lot of tutorials online on how to make them if you're curious about it! I have a lot of fond childhood memories of the Egg Wars......and yes it's very messy
YUP.......and the EXTRA evil option: actually wasn't hollowed out at all. just painted and is mixed in with the regular confetti eggs
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It is the only surviving fragment of a lost medieval manuscript telling the tale of Merlin and the early heroic years of King Arthur's court. In it, the magician becomes a blind harpist who later vanishes into thin air. He will then reappear as a balding child who issues edicts to King Arthur wearing no underwear. The shape-shifting Merlin – whose powers apparently stem from being the son of a woman impregnated by the devil – asks to bear Arthur's standard (a flag bearing his coat of arms) on the battlefield. The king agrees – a good decision it turns out – for Merlin is destined to turn up with a handy secret weapon: a magic, fire-breathing dragon.
The way they did this is actually incredibly cool. They used equipment from the zoology department of the University of Cambridge. This was so accurate they even got the annotations on the side. They also made a 3D-model of both the manuscript and the binding.
