Aug 13
Okay fine. I did make 13 pairs of lace bobbins out of mini skewers and pony beads and hot glue last night.
Now I guess I have to learn bobbin lace. How awful /joking
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Okay fine. I did make 13 pairs of lace bobbins out of mini skewers and pony beads and hot glue last night.
Now I guess I have to learn bobbin lace. How awful /joking
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Back on my bobbin lace:
Bobbin lace is fundamentally not really a -useful- craft, to whatever extent crafting is useful anyways, but I am making something I will use! I put my hair up in two plaits with a strip of bobbin lace in the plaits then use the lace to tie them up on my head, and so far I only have a rainbow piece of lace for it. This one's the monochrome version.
My tools also always make me grin, because I have a mixture of 'free' lace bobbins (they're wooden pegs split in half) and 'actually priceless' bobbins (they're made of vintage collected western australian sandalwood, a wood you're actually not allowed to harvest any more, so you can't get WA sandalwood lace bobbins for any price, unless you know a woodturner who has some in his shed). My mum asked a fellow-Rotarian of my grandfather if he might make me some bobbins since he's a woodturner, and he presents me with 13 pairs made of ACTUALLY PRICELESS wood. I'm always stunned when I think about it. So grateful. I don't think he even particularly thought about that he was making possibly the *only* examples of these that exist in the world, as, in his words "he used wood from the shed". Makes me grin every time, working with combo of pegs and these treasures.
I still do bobbin lace btw. Just not very often or for very long. I put in 2 hours today which due to my skills being rusty was only another spider and a bit of footside. I finally ran out of pins, so I'm pulling some from the center where everything's already secured.
Ready to ply! I'm excited to see how this comes out. The color changes don't have a lot of contrast, so i don't know how the fractal will look but it's practice anyway.
This was done as a worsted spin. I'm to afraid to try woolen spinning methods like from the fold or from rolags yet.
so i got too in the zone and forgot to split this remaining fibre equally -_- still love the greens
going to just do a 2-ply of the smaller bobbin with remaining singles and then try a chain ply with the left bobbin. not too concerned bc this really is the fibre i am using to learn espinning and it is still turning out fine. im excited to figure out some tiny projects to use it for, possibly some stuffies
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I’m all ready to ply these singles!! Some of these have been ‘resting’ since before my baby was born! Everything except the turkish spindle are #fossilfibers colourways that I’m super excited to see as yarn.
In honor of Artemis II and The Current Situation, dusting off this absolute classic by webcomic artist and All Around Good Guy, John Allison. It's as true today as it ever was, probably more so.
In case anyone wants to improvise bobbins / weights to hold threads for weaving, bobbin lace, kumihomo etc,
nails make for quite neat bobbins.
Pros:
cheap
widely available
in a great range of lengths and weights
very easy to store between projects
not squishable (unlike improvised paper bobbins, which are squishable, which means thread lies rather loose on it, so the last loop of thread cuts into loose loops below, so it gets tangled and slips off the bobbin; and also it's so much more prone to snagging)
I love how little space it takes.
I used to make bobbin lace with bobbins improvised from bamboo clothing clips, and they were taking SO. MUCH. SPACE both on lacemaking pillow and in storage after. (I might want to use much longer nails for bobbin lace to get better grip, but that's the beauty of nails: there's so many sizes and weights.)
Close-up:
From now on, nails it is!
