Here´s a pouch or a clutch I made from my Poppana experiment sample. It measures about 19x29cm so it´s quite large. I wove twill on the sides and plain weave for the bottom. Quick and nice project. I´d love to do more these, perhaps for gifts.
One thing though: zipper. They´re really hard to come by in my corner of the world. I couldn´t find the right kind but I am on the lookout for better looking ones.
Here´s the Poppana experiment off the loom. My favourites: the gray/peachy and the red/white. Approximately 32cm wide and five pieces.
The weave is a rosepath and two extra treadles for plain weave. Love this combination and will use it again.
I wish I had more colours to play with. This time it was only scarlet red, middlegray, peachy orange and off-white.
I bought this excellent book about weavers of Bauhaus. Unfortunately it´s in German but the pictures are gorgeous. I´d love too see these weavings with my own eyes but so far never happened to catch a Bauhaus exhibition.
I think I posted almost the same picture a few weeks ago. Only the vase and the flowers were different. From my craft room/living room. I call this my living room because we have another room -almost identical in size- that serves as R´s study and our living room.
A small sample with wool yarns. I am planning to weave wool rugs but can´t make up my mind whether to go for thick warp and thin wool weft or thin warp with chunky wool for weft. Hmm..
A friend of mine asked me to knit him a pair of socks and of course I did. I went for the darkest gray because I hate to knit black yarn because the pattern doesn´t really show and it kills the eyes. They were a good fit I think.
Finally there´s light. And the best part: I have six days off from work.
Happy Easter!
Nowadays there´s multiple projects around the house at some point in process. I used to have only one and could not leave it before the problem/work was solved. I don´t know when I have become promiscuous but it´s much more enjoyable just to leave the work behind if it´s not going anywhere. After a while it looks different and is solved more easily. Here´s weft skeins for a future rug. Too perfect steel gray to use right now.
I keep on dreaming of an organized work space but leave piles of stuff behind. I can´t remember when I had the perfect order I think I have lost and keep referring to. Usually in my pictures I tend to dodge this though but you can see it in the mirror.
Here´s new rug sketches I have been drawing here and there. After a steady row of three ziz-zag 2/2 twill warps I ought to try out something different so these sketches will have to wait.
I have been planning a new project to weave. It will be a some kind of table runner made of linen yarn. But before that I will make a warp for my loom for rugs. But it´s good to have plans right?
This used to be one of my craft spots around the house but at the moment I don´t have one because we are renovating that room. These days I miss my desks the most.
My mother gave an Azalea. She´s a florist so I get flowers from her that are somehow of defected but too beautiful to toss away. It´s good that she´s very picky with what to sell.
I bought a lot of new weft for upcoming rug projects from the craft fair.
Here´s mittens gift-wrapped for a dear friend of mine.
New sock yarn. I am almost done with one pair because knitting variegated yarn is so addictive.
The Itten Rug is about to have an almost identical twin. I had a feeling I have to remake the whole thing because there were minor things that I thought could be done in another way. The new one is thicker about 20% and the colours are more identical with the original Itten colour wheel.
I have started to knit new pairs of mittens after the busiest spring ever. But I need to take it slow because of my injured shoulder even though knitting itself for me is about healing and finding balance.
I finally got around to hang my pictures. The reason was Inpependence Day party at my place. I wish I had done it earlier because my small apartment looks a lot nicer now. Here´s before and after.
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