June Crafting update and July goals
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unicorndukeJune crafting goals
8oz of roving fromreedrover Giant Cricket Farm that I spun up to be weft for the current mohair warp, also from her flock, to finish it off. 2 ply because it would match the warp. Saving the pictures of the weave for the next monthly post because it looks amazing.
Sewing stuff. I got the mohair cloth off the loom, washed it, darned in the loose ends and showed it off at weaver's guild. Some people were vaguely appalled that I would cut it but that's it's purpose. I bought sewing supplies, horn buttons, thread, canvas for interfacing, which I keep amusing crafting friends with because the canvas is so stiff that I can hold it upright and it won't bend over. I picked out a green linen for the back material and I'm using one of the dark grey plaid suiting fabrics for the lining. That suiting fabric smelled so badly of mothballs, that I washed it with wool wash, then with regular laundry detergent, then soaked it in baking soda water and then let it sit in the sun and rain for two days and it finally doesn't have a smell. I started working on the waistcoat last night, just getting things cut out. I'm doing it all right, so I ironed everything even if the mohair didn't really want to iron, cut out my pieces and I'm doing all my marking on the fabric with tailor's tacks because the mohair will definitely not take chalk properly. I'm labeling everything with masking tape labels with the part, the side of the coat it's on and the right side of the fabric. It's gonna be some work! I skipped things on the muslin, like cutting seams to lay flat and ironing and buttons, so it's time to get to work.
The striping on the mohair fabric is from variation in the fleece. When I cut it, I will be sewing the cut edges to make sure it doesn't unravel because of how slick the yarn is.
Cordage! I watched two videos from Sally Pointer about making cords, one just about the basics of it, and one about making cords from rhubarb stalk skins which was super cool! I didn't have any rhubarb at that point, but we made swiss chard the other night, and so I stripped some skin from the swiss chard and made the world's tiniest, most useless cord. Later, I also made some tiny cord out of flax. Turns out cordage is easy if time consuming
July goals
- Spin! finish the 6oz spin, and spin something else - 6 oz completed and I also spun and plyed 8oz of roving from Giant Cricket Farm to use as weft to finish the mohair warp on the loom, started 3oz of hand combed CVM from fleece and my goodness finewools are pretty
- knit sweater - worked on it a little
- start a crochet project? - nope
- get the tablet weaving done, it's just sitting - worked on it a little
- weave! get it off the loom? - got it off the loom! got it wet finished and also wet finished another older weaving project that has been sitting
- Buy sewing supplies - all bought! thread was buy 3 get 3 free at joanns, so I bought a bunch, also bought fancy horn buttons, crafting hangout helped me pick out which fabric to use with the waistcoat
- Wash fleece maybe with a new setup? - nope but setup ideas are all worked out, so I might actually get to it
- process fleece - worked on it
- Other - finish some things to put in the guild show and sale by twisting fringe, ended up buying a fringe twister, made some tiny cordage
8oz of roving from
reedrover Giant Cricket Farm that I spun up to be weft for the current mohair warp, also from her flock, to finish it off. 2 ply because it would match the warp. Saving the pictures of the weave for the next monthly post because it looks amazing.Sewing stuff. I got the mohair cloth off the loom, washed it, darned in the loose ends and showed it off at weaver's guild. Some people were vaguely appalled that I would cut it but that's it's purpose. I bought sewing supplies, horn buttons, thread, canvas for interfacing, which I keep amusing crafting friends with because the canvas is so stiff that I can hold it upright and it won't bend over. I picked out a green linen for the back material and I'm using one of the dark grey plaid suiting fabrics for the lining. That suiting fabric smelled so badly of mothballs, that I washed it with wool wash, then with regular laundry detergent, then soaked it in baking soda water and then let it sit in the sun and rain for two days and it finally doesn't have a smell. I started working on the waistcoat last night, just getting things cut out. I'm doing it all right, so I ironed everything even if the mohair didn't really want to iron, cut out my pieces and I'm doing all my marking on the fabric with tailor's tacks because the mohair will definitely not take chalk properly. I'm labeling everything with masking tape labels with the part, the side of the coat it's on and the right side of the fabric. It's gonna be some work! I skipped things on the muslin, like cutting seams to lay flat and ironing and buttons, so it's time to get to work.
The striping on the mohair fabric is from variation in the fleece. When I cut it, I will be sewing the cut edges to make sure it doesn't unravel because of how slick the yarn is.
Cordage! I watched two videos from Sally Pointer about making cords, one just about the basics of it, and one about making cords from rhubarb stalk skins which was super cool! I didn't have any rhubarb at that point, but we made swiss chard the other night, and so I stripped some skin from the swiss chard and made the world's tiniest, most useless cord. Later, I also made some tiny cord out of flax. Turns out cordage is easy if time consuming
July goals
- Spin the CVM
- Knit sweater
- twist fringe on shawl for guild sale
- finish weaving on the loom and start warping next project
- work on tablet weaving
- Sew the waistcoat
- wash a fleece?
- process fleece
- engage in shenanigans (already happening >:) I went out and collected some nettles and invasive phragmites from the swamp this morning)
