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Things accomplished so far this year:
Finished quilts
Started and finished quilts:
Made some quilt tops:
(One of which has been languishing for almost 10 years...)
Customized 4 backpacks, (one repeat, the first version was stolen from the recipient đŹ)
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I'm currently stitching a rune staff for restful and peaceful sleep into a piece of thick felt. Do you have any ideas/tutorials on embroidery? Because I learned the basic embroidering stitches on the usual fabric that is weaved in a way so you basically see all the holes but this fabric is tough and has no visible weave areas so... how do you stitch into that because it gets kinda crooked?
Honestly, I havenât done any embroidery in years, and I wasnât particularly skilled at it (newbie and all, hadnât practiced much) when I did dabble in it. Though I am eyeballing it again, tbh.Â
But I know a lot of my followers do, and perhaps they can help!
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Since felt is (usually) made by layering strands of wool together and beating the heck out of them until they cling together, you arenât really going to get the nice grid that woven or knitted fabrics have to help. The best thing I have found, (and admittedly, I havenât done a whole heck of a lot -on- felt) is to:
1. Stretch the fabric as tight as you can on a hoop or stretcher-bars as tight as you can without damaging the structural integrity. (less tight for hand-made felt than industrial).
2. get a marking tool (depends on fabric but chalk or wash-out marker or something that will not mar your fabric and thread and wash out) and chart the thing you want to make.Â
More stitches mean more distortion of the fabric, but doing this and watching your tension on the stitches should help.
So, obviously I shouldnât be allowed to take photos of my work, or at least, I should remember to triple-check them before sending off the finished product! *facepalm* But! A finished baby quilt for the familyâs newest baby! Welcome to Earth Weston!
Protip, donât wait for years to finish your projects, you -will- run out of the one fabric you need the most of and it -will- have gone out of print. I think I found the last yard of that polka-dot fabric on the internet! Now to back and quilt it!
Yeah, there were a few more baby blankets on the loom than I had remembered I warped for! TADA! All done and ready for the next project.
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I found this picture of a fun little project painted for Christmas 2017 for the Orchard Supply Hardware I worked at.
Playing with Spirals! Wishing I had started with a bit bigger of a pattern, but oh well! This is probably going to be a âsmall dosesâ project.
Two quilts in the almost done pile are now complete!Â
So, there were more blankets left on the loom than I thought. Taking a break to play with dyes again and finish up some other projects. This is a silk habotai scarf that I dyed using the same vinegar and food coloring acid dyes that Iâve been using for my wool.Â
Next baby blanket!
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Tiny felted sheep! Made as a gift for the coworker who gave me the raw wool to play with.
A while ago A co-worker gave me some wool! It was my first time going through the whole process of off-of-sheep to dyed product. Iâm not sure whether Iâm going to felt or spin the fiber, but it was fun! and Iâm ready to do it again.
Iâm in an apartment so, I cleaned the wool in small batches in the bathroom sink (and washed the sink afterwards with the bleach) and made a kitchen-friendly acid dye with vinegar and food coloring!
First project off the loom! Baby blankets!Â
anybody know how to keep your fingers from falling off from doing these twists and/or braids?
First project off the loom! Baby blankets!Â
Do you have any recommended sources for buying mordants? I've been looking to get into natural dyes and I'm not sure which sellers are preferred/most trustworthy/etc.
Man I have no idea. I bought a pound of alum to start with from Starwest Botanicals since I trust them as a dried herb supplier.Â
Iâm new to this too but I live by the Nanny Ogg mantra of âif it seems like a good idea just do it as hard as possibleâ so fuckit weâll see how things go.Â
The art college I went to bought bulk supplies from Dharma Trading Co. And some mordant, like iron and, I think, copper can be made easily if you don't mind waiting for the metal to go to bits in water.Â
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Cat and dog hair is very slippery to spin, I strongly recommend blending it with wool first! It makes this much easier. A spinner friend of mine regularly does this with Samoyed fur and it makes incredibly soft bright white yarn.
So I MAAAAY have tried it with some cat fur and from my Ridiculously Fluffy Boys it actually spins up pretty well so long as I donât try to make it really thin.Â
The cats donât know what the hell to think of it because itâs a toy, right? All yarn is Toy.Â
But
It smells like me? Is my fur? Is it me or toy?Â
What do???? Cat brain broken.Â
I wonder how often one would have to brush your cats to get enough yarn for a small project. Like, say, a pair of fingerless gloves or something. Especially if one was willing to blend it with say, merino, the result ought to be super fluffy.
It is incredibly soft. Almost like cashmere.Â
Given how much the twins shed, Iâm curious too. I just ran the brush over Muffin Man a couple times today and it made a couple feet of DK weight yarn. (Theyâre shedding for spring right now, everything is cat hair)
Am going to brush them more thoroughly tonight (which they love anyway) and see how much I get.Â
I am interested in your findings as Iâll soon be in the market to adopt some Siamese or perhaps Maine coon fur babies and would like to put the fur from shedding to use.
The hair from my shorter haired twoâŚEllie Girl and LoganâŚwould absolutely need to be blended with wool or something before spinning.Â
As for the longer furred catsâŚcan confirm, does spin just fine alone. If it gets too thin it slips apart, but if you keep it at least around DK gauge it works beautifully.Â
Also Krieg and Muffin Man are twins so their fur is the exact same color. Which is sorta convenient.Â
One of the things I have heard with pet fur (cannot confirm nor deny, no pets) is that you may want to wash it a little more before spinning to avoid wet cat/dog smell when getting rained on/ washing a finished project. A good way to do so without felting everything to death is lukewarm water + dawn with the "wool" in old nylons. And kinda letting it soak a bit, before using clean water to "rinse" the less agitation = less time for everything to turn into a gawdawful mess. Also! You can make an easy kitchen safe-er acid dye for protein based fibers (wool, fur, etc.) With food dye and vinegar!
Art Doll in progress, all sorts of new things to think about while working on this one.Â
Paper-clay with wire and pipe-cleaner armature, cotton batting, muslin and wool felt (so far).
Fabric is acting weird this small Iâm having an interesting time getting things to hang/look right on this scale.
