Episode 116: woven Eden stole, shawl cuff & Bastidor handspun
Thank you for joining me this week. This month, there will be 3 shows due to our missed show in March. I’m not sure what has been going on over here the past couple of weeks but I have a ton of finished items to share with you. While I haven’t had much in terms of knitting mojo (although I have finished my #grotine shawl), I’ve been spinning a ton! I have multiple finished yarns to share with you – but I’m going to hold back a few of them to share with you in later in the month or we’d be here all day! I share some new projects with you, as well as, a spin that took 2 years on my spindles. In particular, I’m really excited to share with you my Eden stole that I wove off the loom last week. Enjoy the show!
Intro to Patreon here.
Liz Gipson’s Yarnwork School of Weaving here.
Works in Progress
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Broke into 6 nests, each spun to a bobbin for two skeins of traditional 3-ply
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First skein finished – washed and snapped, hung to dry
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Knitting socks to test out the mohair in the batt
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Lots of halo & fuzz, even without thwacking
CraftyJaks May Club – Charollais Sheep
- gradient batt
- plan to spin through the different colours, keeping them clean and as fine as possible to chain-ply
Finished Objects
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Turkish spindle spin
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Over 2 years in progress
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Plied on Snyder Spindles’ Steampunk
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Part of a larger gradient spin, 1st spin – not sure if I’m going to just spin final 2; might card them up for variety
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Small pattern that I wrote and played with – will become a blog post
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Love the effec
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Toggle buttons
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SweetGeorgia Yarns BFL + Silk in colourway Eden, April 2016 handspun
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Henry’s Attic Merino, Mohair, Nylon & sparkle yarn from LYS; cone of fibre – used about 33 grams
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Warped to a sett of 10EPI; balanced weave
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Warped 3 yards – pre-washing measurements 14.25” x 69” and 9” fringe; post-washing 13” x 63” (roughly 10% shrinkage)
Announcements
Housekeeping
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Helps to let everyone know about upcoming dates for the community all in one space
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Until next time,
Happy Spinning!
