In a bit of a rush

Does this remind you of anything? It's cotton which I will be making into an oven glove, hopefully with better insulation properties than my current one which lets heat through far too fast for my liking. I just wove a long strip of plain weave using the same rustic type of cotton for both warp and weft. I need to get some binding and then I'll put it together.

I really wanted to make something that used some twill patterning, so I made YAS (yet another scarf). I threaded two 10 dpi heddles in a 3 2 1 3 2 1 threading which worked out at 15 epi. I'll elaborate about the threading another time,'cos I don't have the time right now. I explored the weave drafts at Handweaving.net and found two which worked for me. I used one for about 10" at each end of the scarf and a second for the middle section. The pattern at the ends (no. 62700) was very different on each side, while the other (no. 34910) was the same on each side.


This shows the transition from one pattern to the next, the ribbon was my length guide, because I needed to know when to start the ending pattern. The yarn is 80% acrylic, 20% wool 4 ply from the machine knit stash. The finished scarf is 20cm wide and 1.82m long. On the loom it was 19cm and 2m. I always thought that woven fabric decreased in width when finished, but not mine, well not all of it. I tried twisted fringe for the first time - my poor fingers. I need to get a fringe twister if I'm going to do more of this. I love the effect though.

In knitting news, I've finished one all knit (no purls) Monkey sock, and started the second. These really are going quite fast for me. I've started another Cabled Spiral sweater because I really like the yoke, but this one has ribs for the cuffs and body. So far I have both sleeves done to the armpit and about 4" of the body completed.

I've just started weaving YAS using Wendy Happy bamboo yarn for warp, plain weave with a 3 ply wool weft. Pretty. I'll try to get some photos taken soon.

A glut of FOs

This keeps happening to me, and I don't know why. All of a sudden, I finish projects at nearly the same time. Each time, there is a vacuum when I can't decide what to make next. I've started a Monkey sock to keep me going, after all, I have to have something to knit.

Kearsarge is done, and it fits well. This is Patons Diploma Gold DK yarn with 4mm needles, and I used less than 10 x 50g balls.

The bright kettle dyed socks are done too. These are my standard 72st 2.5mm needle socks and I like them. I won't be overdyeing them. Cold feet aren't an option wearing these!

Fulled woven bag

This is the start of a fulled bag using some Jojoland Rhythm yarn left over from a previous project and some coned wool yarn that has been vegetating in the stash for a loooong time. The Rhythm is a 4 ply with each ply changing colour along its length. I thought it would be ideal for trying the clasped weft technique. On the loom the fabric was very holey, but after fulling by hand, it closed up nicely...

and shrunk too. I just caught it at the size I wanted and then set about weaving a strap to match using the same yarns in a warp faced band.

This was also fulled and the next step was to bribe my sewing machine. One broken and two bent needles later, I had a bag. I turned under the edges of the flap and front top edge of the bag and instead of basting or pinning the raw edges before machining, I needle felted them to hold them in place. The lining has pockets and was sewed in by hand.