Stasia's Place Of Grace

Sunday, October 13, 2002

 

Finished Objects

I finished the scarf for my sister, which Valentine cheerfully modeled:

It was made of one skein of Red Heart Super Saver Multicolor acrylic yarn in #0315 Artist Print. I cast on 50 stitches and worked in a K2, P2 ribbing until I ran out of yarn, on size 10 needles at a gauge of about 5 sts. per inch in pattern. It is about 10" wide, and maybe 50-60" long (it's wrapped once completely around Val's neck.)

It was an extremely relaxing and meditative project and went very quickly. If you try it, do a swatch with needles a little larger than what I use, as I knit really loosely and always have to go down a couple of sizes to get things to gauge. (As this was just made-up, I didn't pay attention to a gauge.)

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I took the Rainbow Ruana fabric off of the loom, and machine stitched the ends and the center (where I will be cutting it in half for assembly):

It is about 124" long, and 24" wide, and is made of the same yarn mentioned above. Yes, I am a handspinner, and yes, I like high-quality commercial yarns, but this colorway was just too fun to resist.

I learned that my loom waste is actually about 40" rather than the 24" I'd calculated for... oops! What with hemming and all, this is going to be a short ruana - and it was already running short in the initial measurements. But at least I'm learning a lot... I made the modifications to my loom after removing the fabric, and I hope to throw another warp on there within the week (before I forget, again, how to do it!)

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The Packers won again today, and thought I'm not a big football fan, I watched part of the game knowing Kary was watching, too.

I ordered the new Ashford book on rigid heddle weaving, along with some weaving supplies for future projects. It's much less intimidating - weaving, that is - now that I've completed my fourth project.

It is 29 degrees F outside now, so rather than letting them freeze, Jeff and I cut off the four rosebuds which haven't yet opened and brought them inside to see if they will.

It was a nice, mostly lazy Sunday, and very restful. Hope yours was, too!

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