Spin and weave

 Spun from Lucinvale fleece, that I dyed with Earth Palette Rubin.

I left this as a single yarn which I heavily fulled to add strength.

The fulling must of worked as I was able to use the yarn in the warp with no breakage.

 I love the texture and colour in this scarf.

It's already gone to a new home.

Spin, weave, sew

 Romney X fleece from Lucinvale.

Spun and plied on itself. 

I spun mostly from the fold of the lock.

Woven on an Ashford Knitters loom into fabric.

 Sewn into little drawstring bags.

Embellished with crochet flowers also from handspun yarn.

 Amazing how much I get done when I'm not surfing the web for inspiration!

Weaving - Anchors Away Scarf

 Woven with handspun 22 micron Merino, 

on an Ashford Knitter's Loom.

The Merino top was dyed by Jane at Moseley Park 

and the colour way is called Anchors.

The warp was spun as a lace weight.

 The flower was woven on a Hanna Ami Loom.

 I spun the weft as a thick thin yarn,

plied with a lace weight spun from the same merino top.

I used the 7.5 DPI reed on a 12" Knitter's Loom.

It is a simple plain weave.

The scarf is as soft as butter.

The plan is to use up some of my mounting handspun yarns.

I'd like to try and sell a few locally, maybe markets or at Wirrabarra.

May just be one of my "gonna" plans, they could all end up as presents.

Chicky, chicky...

 Warp and weft: My handspun yarn

Woven on  an Ashford Knitters Loom.

Tabby weave.

Yarn spun from a Romney X,  Lucinvale Fleece

 The ends are twisted for a fringe.

 I fulled the scarf in hot water. 

It bloomed up lovely.

I needle felted some little birds onto the scarf.

Each of the little birds is different.

This was a lot of fun to make.

I love the look of natural coloured wool.

Woven hand Towel

I had another play with my loom.

I learned a new technique by watching this video.

 I spent some time outside weaving today.

Another beautiful spring day.

 It feels as lovely to touch.

 The selvedges aren't as good as they should of been. 

I added a crochet shell edge to hide them.

Loom: Ashford Knitters loom

Yarn: My Friends 55% Acrylic and 45% cotton.

Reed: 7.5 DPI

Technique: Pile Loop Terry towel.

Pin Wheel Hounds tooth scarf - Rigid Heddle weaving

Loom: Ashford Knitter's Loom

Reed: 7.5 DPI

Yarn: My Friends 55% Acrylic, 45% cotton

Warp:  (2 black 2 White) repeat to desired width, 2 Black.

Weft: (2 picks black, 2 picks white) repeat to desired length.

It's very easy to do.

A video I found on YouTube:

Playing with my knitter's loom

Warp and weft: my handspun Romney X Corr

Warp: 6 of each colour

Weft: 2 pics of each colour

Nice site with the Terminology used in weaving.

 I wove this on my Ashford Knitter's loom

Using the 10 DPI reed.

I'm playing making swatches of different patterns.

I want to try weaving with a pick up stick on my Knitter's loom next.

I did say I was obsessed...

The postman just knocked on my door!

Five little looms have come to stay.

Two 5 inch looms, one for 8ply yarns and the other for 12 ply.

One 7 inch triangle,

One 7 inch 12ply loom,

and one 31/2 by 7 1/2 rectangle.

I bought them from Bella in Adelaide. 

She does mail order!

The looms are marked down as they are the last of her stock.

So if you want one be quick as there aren't many left. 

I beat you to them!

Woven table mat

Yarn: Handspun Romneyx Corr

Woven on 7 inch square hand loom

Fly stitch, buttonhole and Lazy Daisy

My first finished project using my 7 inch square loom.

My hand spun is a little heavier than an 8ply and the last couple of rows of the squares were a little tight to weave.

I love the feel of the fabric, it's not as harsh as it looks.

I'm building up a pile of weavies. 

17 in the box at the moment. 

Most in a commercial 8ply yarn.

I was going to make a throw with them but I could be tempted to make a garment.

A throw made from weavies made with my handspun would be very nice.

E-loom-in-ating

I'm in love with little looms and weaving

I bought a little loom from Bella last year and have had fun weaving up squares.

I have a 7 inch loom that is designed to weave 8ply yarns.

I now want to invest in more of these little looms and play with them.

Pete is being romanced into making me more looms using the instructions from This site.

Eloomanation.com is a fabulous site full of PDF booklets for making all sorts of things with these little woven squares.

Pin Weaving 

requires no loom and is very creative and fun. 

A lot like riding a bike without holding the handle bars.

All you need is some pin tacks. a board and some yarn.

And a child like attitude to play and experimenting.

 I warped this piece in cotton and wove with some interesting yarns

Then added a little pin woven flower.

What am I going to do with it?

I have no idea, but it was fun to create.

Freeform weaving must be popular, as there are now a couple of books on the subject.

I've fround a couple of differenet types of weaving looms at the local op shops.

This set I estimate to be 1970's .

I do have the four looms but the large circle one is missing a pin.

This Magic Loom fascinates me. 

It was manufactured here in South Australia.

I'm estimating 80's on this one.

It's woven in the same way as the current butterfly looms. 

But it retracts the pins you wind around to make it easy to get the woven piece off the loom.

 I bought the little set a few years ago and the book I found only about a month ago at another op-shop.

More information on weaving with little looms and pin weaving can be found:

Spinning Down Under

Tenar

Weavies

Knitting-And.com

If you've found any really good sites, please let me know I'd love to visit them.

Weaving

I've been playing around with my loom experimenting with simple patterns.
I used my handspun natural coloured wools again and a 7.5DPI reed to make this little pouch.
I warped 6 grey, 6 white and then woven the weft 6 grey and 6 white, to give the pattern.

I spun the yarn from a Corriedale X Romney Fleece I bought from Wirrabarra a while back. It was a 1.3kg fleece and I've almost spun the lot now. Most has been spun into a DK weight. But I did experiment with a bulky weight too.

It didn't take long to weave this up on the Knitters loom. 

I now have a stand for my loom which makes it easier to work at it. 

I used some fingering weight plyed yarn in the warp, which I spun. 

For the weft I spun up some bulky ply.

It's 28cms wide by 110cms. I'm thinking about sewing it up into a bag. 

It's so soft and nice I'll just keep patting it for now.

Spin, weave, fulled, crocheted and stitched

Woven with handspun romney as warp and weft, on a 12inch knitters loom. 

Crochet flowers and leaves are in handspun corriedale X both fleeces came from Lucinvale Coated Spinning Fleeces at Mt Brian here in South Australia.

I used the 5DPI reed and once woven I slightly fulled the scarf before sewing on the embellishments.

I'm totally stoked with this :D

Stick Weaving - School Holiday fun

Peter used his wood working skills to make some weaving sticks for Fern and Rose.
Made from 6mm dowel with a 2.5 mm hole drilled at one end and a point on the other made with a pencil sharpener. these are very simple to make.

Thread some long lengths of yarn through the sticks and you're ready to go.

Now take a ball of yarn and start to weave around the sticks.

And you're doing it!


You can vary the number of sticks you use.
Sew strips of weaving together to make scarfs, bags, mats, blankets and many other items.

More links on stick weaving:

http://hubpages.com/hub/Stick_Weaving_For_a_Quick_Homemade_Gift
http://rachelspinning.blogspot.com/2006/11/stick-weaving-mat.html
A video - http://www.graspr.com/videos/Stick-Weaving-101
http://ncag.blogspot.com/2009/01/another-stick-weaving-project.html

Weaving on The Ashford Knitters loom

I used the 7.5 DPI reed with this scraft
The warp is an acrylic from spotlight. I put two strands as each warp.
The weft is an 8ply acrylic and a feather type yarn worked together.

It took a couple of washes in the machine and a couple of turns in the dryer to get the feathers yarn to fluff up.

I had this sitting on my loom for a couple of months, but had to finish it as I wanted to weave my hand spun wool :)


A baby blanket I wove with my first handspun wool!
I made three strips of weaving and crocheted them together.
I added a crochet shell trim to the edge.


I used a commercial wool yarn in the warp as I didn't think my handspun was going to be strong enough to take the strain.
I used the 5 DPI Reed.


It's so soft! You wouldn't believe it was wool.

I can't wait to get another project onto my loom.
I'd like to get a double heddle kit next and play around with using two heddles.

Weaving and quilting

Another dishcloth warped up and being woven on my Ashfords Knitter's Loom

The loom folds up when I'm not working on it.

The quilt top is together and I've pin basted the quilt sandwich ready for machine quilting.

I used some excess fabric to make the little stitchery into a quilt block.
I was thinking of making it into a bag.