Category: Clothing
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Warp painting – scarf
This is my experiment with warp painting. See what happens when I have idle time on my hands. I had always wanted to try warp painting; and since I had accumulated all of the supplies, I went for it. The warp and the weft for this scarf is a cotton novelty yarn that was purchased…
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Mom’s shawl
This is what happens when I try to spin wool to make socks. I originally purchased the wool to spin this yarn intending to make socks. after spinning the yarn (I hadn’t yet mastered, at that point, the art of controlling the type of yarn that I spun,) I decided that it wasn’t strong enough…
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Handspun Aran
This is my first attempt at spinning a three ply yarn. I had always wanted to knit an Aran sweater, and this one from Country Knits by Debbie Bliss and Fiona McTague caught my eye. After spinning a number of smaller projects, I thought that I would try spinning the yarn for it. To make…
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My first weaving project
This is the very first item that I ever wove, start to finish. I learned how to weave from Tom Knisely at The Mannings in Pennsylvania. if you are interested in learning how to weave, I highly recommend his 5 day class, which is the one that I took. The class starts out getting you familar with weaving by…