[Ansteorra-Textiles] RE: What's everybody up to?

[Audette des Grenouilles]

Right now I'm surrounded by the mundane for knitting crafts.  I just finished
knitting up 80 pair of slippers, and am now sewing them up.  (my fiance and I
want to use them as favours at our wedding...  it's a long story, but they mean
a lot to my family, and his will get to learn about them...)  I may need to do
some more, but we need to figure out our guestlist.

And a friend is having a baby, and so I need to get a baby blanket done up for
her.


For SCA related things, though, I'm playing around some more with felting.
I've got a couple hat forms, and have blocked out a piece I wet-felted over
it.  I still need to do some finish work on it, but so far, so good.

And I've been getting into card weaving lately.  I did my first piece as a
favour for my lord earlier this year, and want to do some more to practice, and
to figure out some more patterns.

The BG Fiber Arts Guild has been doing a lot of knitting lately, and I'm
planning a demonstration of fulling coming up soon.  If I ever get around to
clearing off the back patio, we may do some felting, as well.

Audette



Beth Ellis <killian at awesomenet.net> said:
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:
:> Right now I've got a big multicolored icelandic ram fleece doing an
:> overnight coldwater soak in my washing machine.  Haven't decided exactly
:> what I'm going to do with it yet.  Probably comb to separate the thel/tog
:> and spin separately.  Behind that are several shetland fleeces to be
:> processed.
:
:That sounds like fun.  Let us know how the thel & tog spin up.  Do you like
:to use a wheel, a drop spindle, or both for the majority of your projects?
:I'm a big shetland fan - there are several nice fleeces of various colors
:lurking in my closet, waiting for me to get out of the current slump.  I
:have several projects in mind, but I need to commit and get going on them.
:>
: there's a
:> fine-weaving workshop in the fall that I really wanted to take.
:
:Oh jealousy.  Living down here in the sticks precludes attendance at
:workshops.  Just about everything I know is self taught.  Kind of
:frustrating sometimes.
:>
:> Speaking of naalbinding, anyone know of anyone pretty good with that in
:the
:> Elfsea/Steppes area?  I'd really like to learn that.  I'm pretty good with
:a
:> book, but I'm finding that this one might be easier in person and would
:like
:> to track someone down to show me the basics.
:
:There is a laurel who's been doing alot of nalbinding over the last two or
:three years that I know of.  I think it's Mistress Alex (am I right,
:Clare?).  I am not sure if she is from the Steppes area though.  Perhaps you
:could link up with her at some point.  She knows several different stitches,
:and has done various projects using each of them.  Mistress Charla has also
:been playing with nalbinding for at least a year.  She currently lives in
:Greywood.
:>
:Corrinne
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