FO day!

I am keeping very busy here at Casa Wool Therapy. I finished my first rug on the cranbrook a few days ago. And yes, that includes the hem! I hand hemmed these and it turned out fabulous, I will be doing it again. Final measurements (30” x 72”)

 

 

 

 

I pulled another scarf off of my RH too. It is a mash of 2 different hand dyed yarns, both by the same dyer, Three Irish Girls. The warp is a 50% Alpaca, 30% Merino, 20% Silk blend in a solid, and the weft is a single ply 60% Silk 40% Merino blend.

 

 

Happy Weaving!



Testing Lily Louet

Ok. So I name my looms. And my new Louet Spring is officially named Lily Louet. She has finally gotten herself properly dressed! I choose a short and quick project so that I may get a feel for her. I didn't want to throw on a 12 yard warp and realize 12 picks in that I hate weaving on her.

 

 

I choose an 8/2 tencel for an easy undulating twill scarf. I also choose to use only 4 shafts instead of all 8, this being my very first go round with a countermarch loom. I feel the need to understand the process before I try to get crazy with the pattern and shaft combos! Also, the built in raddle? Awesome.

 

 

It took me a week after picking her up to get to her, but she is tied on and ready to go.

 

 

The rigid heddle also got herself dressed this week in a commissioned project for another Raveler. It is hand dyed sock yarn, fully warped in my 12" AKL. I found the color repeats and warped to produce a faux ikat scarf.

 

 

Call me crazy, but I still love weaving on my RH!!!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 





Sock it to me!

Have I mentioned how much I love weaving on a rigid heddle with sock yarn? A ton. Right after I bought my first floor loom I sold my Ashford Knitter's loom (AKL). I had actually thought that once I start weaving on a "big girl" loom, aka a floor loom, that I would never want to revisit my slooooow weaving RH. A month or two without that little AKL and I quickly realized I had made a big mistake! I love making scarves out of wacky variegated knitting yarn.

 

 

This little beauty was dyed by a Ravelry buddy, Azlynn of Dyelectable Yarns, and is an 80/10/10 MCN blend. The colorway name is roadkill. The image of roadkill isn't all that beautiful, but this skein sure is.

 

I decided to pair it with some Sanguine Gryphon Skinny Bugga (also 80/10/10 MCN) in Grey Scalloped Bar Butterfly.

 

 

The result is stunning although I am only 1/4 of the way into it.

 

 

My cats loved it too. I left to go to the store, and when I returned home the caked skein that was waiting to become the weft looked like this.....

 

 

I almost cried. I did yell. I was tempted to throw it away. But with some encouragement I sat down and untangled it myself. Only after I contacted some of the fabulous women in the Knot a Problem group on Rav. These women love to untangle yarn, and will do it for others. More power to them. I'd rather knot do it ever again ;)

 

 

 

 

A very productive weekend

Well this was supposed to be posted yesterday, but I was incapable of typing this and listening to my audio book. Apparently I cannot do both at the same time. Who knew?

 

A productive weekend it was though. I decided it was time to find something to hang my warping board on instead of just laying it on my table. I found these square closetmaid hooks at wallyworld.

 

Since these will be in my dining room, I didn't want to attach the board directly to wall!

 

 

 

Fits my 12 yard and 4.5 yard boards perfectly!

 

I also finished a scarf on my 15"Schacht Flip RH. This warp was knitting sock yarn in a SW merino. Hemstitched both ends.

 

 

The baby wolf was also warped, and back to front for the first time!!!! It went very well with few issues, and I plan to warp that way most of the time now. Yeah me! No pictures of that though, it is a super secret Christmas gift.

 

Happy Weaving :)