Erica's Projects
She talks more about this process in this post on Weavolution.
Erica has wound all 1,400 threads for her next Drawloom warp. She looks forward to studying drawloom weaving with JoAnne Hall this summer!
Erica has sampled weft possibilities for her handspun scarf. She is weaving along with the middle weft, which is a medium grey. She feels this allows the focus to be on the beautiful handspun war.
Michelle finished needle felting the sorting hat. She's pleased with how it turned out. She'd have liked to make the hat have more folds around the back of the hat but is afraid of messing it up.
Michelle experimented with needle felting and wet felting a bowl. She needle felted over a hat form and added a tree and bat before wet felting. She learned that this kind of detail is best added after the bowl is fulled.
Before:
Michelle also experimented with some RIT dye using a technique found on the RIT website for marbled pillowcase. She dyed a couple napkins and handkerchiefs. More experimentation is needed.
After episode 2, Michelle pulled out a pair of socks she started over a year ago. It was intended to be a sample for selling yarn when Michelle and friends owned Washtenaw Wool, but she set them aside after only knitting a couple inches when they closed up shop. They're intended to be a fraternal pair knit from opposite ends of the self striping gradient yarn.
The spinning wheel Michelle mentions. It was originally a kick starter but can be ordered now (no affiliation)
Electric Eel Mini spinning wheel
Stretchy bind offs (no affiliations):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k8om3-wJKrw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SbzeEg6XMwM
Jeny's surprisingly stretchy bind off:
http://knitty.com/ISSUEfall09/FEATjssbo.php
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ol8aZ7z_ISs
Great to see the new episode! Sounds like you have both made a lot of progress on your WIPs.
ReplyDeleteI have a question/topic I would be interested in hearing your comments on, if you might be interested in discussing it a bit:
Growing up, my mom did a bit of cross-stitching, and then she became much more involved with counted cross-stitch when I was in high school/college and to present day. I had an interest in making throughout my childhood, but found the strict structure of cross-stitch to be not at all to my liking. I had a grandmother who crocheted, and she had enough experience that she didn't really work off of patterns and just was able to make up her projects as she went, to fit the need/desire of the project at hand. I found the more relaxed, open feeling of that kind of crafting much more to my liking, and so I dabbled in crochet. As I've grown, it's become my craft of choice.
What sort of influence/exposure to various crafts did you both have in your early years, and how do you feel that influenced your making behaviors and preferences in the present day?
Thanks for asking! We answered this question in Episode 4, which we hope to have iut next week!
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