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So I found this beautiful mocha silk-mohair top at a fibre festival and couldn't resist it. Spun it up on the drop spindle (I think - looks too irregular to have been wheel-spun), then it just sat for a while until a friend enduring a fresh and unexpected grief asked for something cozy and I knitted it up into this lace scarf. Hope she loves it.

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White cotton crocheted star and snowflake shaped ornaments on brown background

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Washed, starched and blocked (shaped) for a holiday gift

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White crocheted star among Xmas ornaments

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I ... don't crochet. But these are kind of adorable, so here I am.

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Brown lace sock on a foot with yarn, bowl and needles alongside

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A bookmark - a warp-faced Swedish technique.

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Too many flaws to be a gift, but will be very cosy in my office/studio.

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Photographs so I remember what I had to do: cut carefully, match ends, bind panels together at intervals, weight so they are manageable as I work, mattress stitch. Let's hope this works. (These are already washed - I thought it would be easier that way, but might try sewing before washing next time.)

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Off the loom and making its way in the world
Update: the recipient loves it.

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Waffle weave sampler - my first project for Master Weaver course

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Waffle weave sampler - my first project for Master Weaver course

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Dyed, spun and plied by me. Maybe enough for a woven scarf?

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Acid dyes, in microwave; Corrie Cross roving. Had to un-compact a little bit after dyeing...

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Romney

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for the first time.... Needed *a lot* of cleaning, so I can't say it was a joy to spin, but it's definitely a joy to touch.

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This is fun to spin - staple length is perfect. Coarse to the touch, tho, so I don't know how I will use. Think I'm going to ply and try weaving with it.

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Would be pretty. Though my camera hasn't captured the colors exactly (and they are different weights of cotton, but I'm wild like that).

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Preparing to make a sweater - being extra cautious.

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Much too long, out of handspun merino

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Knitting a 2/1 rib for the first time; the numbers are fiddly, but it looks great!

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Lace knitting!

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I spun (but didn't dye) this. The scarf is going to be gorgeous when finished.

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I don't love the colors & they are too thick to be really good towels, but still - the patterns!

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I'm making an awful lot of socks lately...

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A hat I made from wool I spun

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A weaving of uncertain purpose, just to try the loom (8-harness, 48-inch) out after 3-4 years of having it lurk in my office unused. Update: it turned out beautifully.

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The colour is called "Pepper"

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on the feet of the beloved friend they were made for....

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One long skein of fancy sock wool

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It was *not* hard to weave, though I did learn some things. The big revelation was washing & drying it, off the loom, and having it magically turn soft and dense - it became cloth!

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so I made one

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Lately I am fascinated with embroidering words - dozens, hundreds of tiny little letters. Here is the first piece; I'm already on to the next.

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on the Leclerc. This was hard to warp, and may be hard to weave. (Wide and fussy warp.)

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Cotton, 274 ends, 28.75 feet, 10epi, 3 panels.

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Starting to enjoy playing with twill weave. About to come off the loom.

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On my loom right now. My edges are trashy, but my tension is good.

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I'm working on a binder full of these, to use up my fibre stash.

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Too short, really. The oldest thing I've woven (sometime in the early 90s) that's still around.

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A lot of this is rug wool, so it's not as soft as I'd like. Still pretty, though.

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with ruffly edges. Can't really see it here, but the colours are beautiful.

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woven, kind of miraculously, on a junky rigid-heddle loom (before my spouse made me a good one).

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This wool I blended as roving, then spun, then knitted

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But one of my favourite moments from the summer.

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I'm a little obsessed.

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The thick, bright balls are the first I ever spun. They're really bad.

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I have way too much handspun.

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Fleece washed and carded, ready to spin.

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Three of them, in fact. Or, bits of three of them.

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First thing I ever wove on my Leclerc floor loom

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First thing I ever wove on my Leclerc floor loom

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Cotton rug warp, random weft. It's really too long to do anything with.

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Shredded silk shirts and ties, knitted.

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A little pink, a little soft, a little shimmery 

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A little pink, a little soft, a little shimmery 

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Mohair and wool and glass beads

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I didn't make this; that was my spouse.

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With socks in progress. And wine.