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

[Beth Ellis]

After doing 80 pairs of anything, I'd be stark raving mad.  You are an
intrepid woman!  Knitting is something I really should pick up, given all
the handspun laying around my house.  I use some for weaving, but there's a
lot that for one reason or another would probably be better for  knitting.
Corrinne

----- Original Message -----
From: "Audette des Grenouilles" <audette at sapheron.org>
To: "Spinners, weavers, knitters and other Textile makers in Ansteorra"
<ansteorra-textiles at ansteorra.org>
Sent: Monday, June 27, 2005 10:18 AM
Subject: Re: [Ansteorra-Textiles] RE: What's everybody up to?


> 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:
> :
> :
> :> 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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