Stasia's Place Of Grace

Monday, November 27, 2006

 

I just may finish handmade gifts for the holidays with my new loom! Here is another Noro Silk Garden scarf. This time, I played with weft floats using a pickup stick, after watching "Rigid Heddle Weaving" with Betty Davenport. It's a great film - lots of useful tips that I hadn't come across in books.

I ran out of the yarn I was using, so I finished with the Noro from the previous scarf I'd made. Luckily the colors were similar. That's what I get for trying to use a wider warp and not have any leftovers... I sure didn't! I won't try to be quite so frugal next time (a nice-sized scarf can be made with two balls of Noro, BTW).

Here is a close-up of the floats:

Scarf hasn't been fulled yet - edges look a bit weird.

I love doing a scarf a day. The warping is quick and easy, the weaving is relaxing, and I even have time for socknitting. Hopefully now I will make a dent in my yarn stash (which looks really sinful, now that it is all lined up in Rubbermaid tubs in a barn. Some day I may be brave and show you a picture if you promise not to think I'm crazy, as my mother and mother-in-law now do after helping me arrange it all.)

Does anyone have a really good illustration/description of hemstitching? Every time I've read about it or seen it done, it's been different... and I can't come across a version that I can memorize. Please let me know.

My friend Di, back in Milwaukee, emailed a photo of the Tiger Woods afghan she knit for her nephew. She has only been knitting a short time, and she created a graph for this all by herself from a photo. She backed this with some fleece fabric printed with the UW-Wisconsin logo. Nice job, Di!

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Grateful for...

Closets! Jeff installed a rod in one closet, and cedar shelves in another, and I finally have someplace to put my clothes, which have been living in piles in the bedroom. The cedar shelves were not expensive and were easy to make... I'm thinking some yarn stash storage space might be in the offing as well...?

Goats that take their herbal wormer like it was chocolate.

Fireplaces.

Selling a dozen eggs from the cooler at the end of my driveway.

Hubby going back to work today after being underfoot for four days!

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