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  • Natural Dyes – Marigold

    August 5, 2024
    Dying

    I chose to dye some handspun yarn with marigolds this summer. It turned out beautifully and I wanted to share some of my methods with you. Marigolds are beautiful plants that are very easy to grow. Most pests will leave them alone due to their scent, although I did discover last year that apparently slugs…

  • Weaving with Handspun Singles

    August 5, 2024
    Spinning, Weaving

    As I have explored the world of spinning, I heard it mentioned from several sources that the great thing about weaving with your handspun yarn is that you don’t have to ply it. This is an interesting statement. It implies using the singles for both warp and weft, which is contrary to what all the…

  • Tablet Weaving, Double Face

    June 16, 2024
    Weaving

    Double-faced weave is a method of weaving that produces 2-toned images with a color-switched version on the reverse.  This method is often used for belt favors, heraldic images, and text. Threading For double-face weave, you use (2) colors per card.  Each card will have (2) threads of each color in adjacent spots.  To illustrate: Above…

  • Tablet Weaving Theory

    June 16, 2024
    Weaving

    Project presented in Queen’s Prize Tourney 2022. In tablet weaving, you can spend a considerable amount of time setting up your weaving.  It can be extremely frustrating to spend all that time preparing only to discover that what you wanted to do isn’t going to work.  The reasons things don’t work are many, from picking…

  • Hedeby Bag

    May 22, 2024
    Embroidery

    A response to the pouch challenge issued by Lord Auðin Hrafnsson in 2021. The Hedeby (or Haithabu) bag is a style of frame handled bag based on extent remains found in a trading settlement in Schleswig-Holstein known as Haithabu (in German), or Hedeby (in Danish/Swedish). Hedeby was the second largest Nordic city during the Viking…

  • Sheep to Scarf (Houndstooth Scarf)

    May 19, 2024
    Dying, Spinning, Weaving

    This scarf is woven from a raw fleece that I was gifted last summer.  Over the last 6 months I washed, spun, dyed, and wove the wool into this scarf. When I received the fleece, it was tightly packed into a garbage bag for shipping purposes.  It expanded rapidly when I opened the bag.  My…

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