moving sucks and I have a lot of yarn
Each Wednesday, I take stock of the projects I’m working on.
You never know how much yarn you have till you pack it all into boxes.
I’m moving on Monday, so it’s been packing and donating, and sorting, and tossing, and returning, and cursing the amount of yarn and fabric I’ve managed to acquire. I’m pretty positive that I own more “potential clothing” in the forms of yarn and fabric, than I own “wearable clothing.”
But between the packing and the cursing, I wove in a kagillion ends, washed, and blocked my piles of handwoven fabric.
Of course, I finished them and they went straight into a box. But at least they’re done.
a week of weaving, crocheting, and knitting, how multi-craftual
Each Wednesday, I take stock of the projects I’m working on.
I’m moving in about 2 weeks, and so this week has been all about finishing up projects.
The last piece of fabric from my autumnal pile of yarn has been woven – now they just need a good soak, a bunch of ends woven in, and some photos.
The giant black and white granny square gotten a seam and turned into a cardigan – now it just needs photos.
And my crazy colorful sweater has sleeves! I’ve been procrastinating on the sleeves of this sweater for months, but it has two sleeves – now I need to pull back a few rows on one of the sleeves (because I knit it too long, sort of on purpose), and weave in another huge pile of ends.
Other than that it’s been mostly packing, sorting, donating, logistics-ings, and convincing myself that I will not be making Christmas gifts this year (I hope).
I love how plain weave fabric highlights the interaction between the warp and the weft
Each Wednesday, I take stock of the projects I’m working on, and where my brain is at.
I’ve begun contemplating possible sewing projects for this fabric, and am leaning towards something patchworky. So with this piece of fabric I stuck to long stretches of using only one yarn, as oppose to mixing colors all over the place. I figure, if I do end up doing something patchworky, then having the option of patches in a single colorway will be helpful.
I love how the plain weave fabric shows off the dye job, and highlights the color interactions between the warp and the weft.
Another four or five feet woven with this particular pile of yarn, and I still have 3 decent sized balls of yarn left…
It feels as though this is the never ending pile of yarn. I’m hoping against all hope that the next piece of cloth finishes the yarn, because this piece of cloth didn’t.
