At my Friday stitching group we have been working on ‘wild woman’ brooches.
My aim was to get as much stuff on it as possible; beads, buttons, yarn and charms.
The base fabric is felt, and we stabilised it with buckram.
Gold Work Gum Nut Progress
I am part of the Embroiders’ Guild of WA and I am in a group, which meets once a week. Tania Cohen has come for the last four weeks to teach us Gold Work.
I still have a bit to do, the chipping in particular. I am loving it.
Filed under Bedazzle, Embroidery, Inspiration
Floral Fancies
Rebecca Devaney of Textile Tours of Paris had a sale (everything is always beautifully packaged). And I can’t resist pretty fabric and silk threads. Yet another project to add to the enormous list.
Filed under Embroidery, Purchases
Jane Austen Quilt
I have seen this quilt in person at the Jane Austen House Museum, so when I saw it was available to reproduce in a kit, I was very keen.
It comes in this beautiful box
With all of the fabrics and an instruction booklet, and a template for cutting the diamonds.
Now I just need to get started (and dig out my sewing machine!).
Filed under Fabric Stash, Patchwork, Patterns, Purchases, Quilting, Sewing Machine
More Socks
I finished another pair of socks. The yarn is from Temu (it is actually quite nice – Opal). I think it’s 5ply or 6ply rather than my normal 4 ply. I cast on 48 stitches instead of 64, but they are quite snug.
A K2P2 rib and then a plain vanilla sock with a heel flap and gusset.
Filed under Knitting, Sock Knitting, Yarn Stash
More Purchases
Rebecca Devaney from Textile Tours of Paris had a sale. And I couldn’t resist more antique French tea towels and au ver à soie silk threads (I have quite a collection of them now).
As always, it came beautifully packaged (it even smells nice) with a little gift (the blue checked fabric is a little bag).
Filed under Embroidery, Fabric Stash, Inspiration, Purchases
Handwoven Tape
I have an inkle loom – I have made two rather dodgy bands.
I have had this book since 2021, but I hadn’t read it properly.
Here’s the blurb …
Narrow bands of woven tape were important to Americans in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, before the days of elastic and zippers. This book documents the fascinating American history of handwoven tape and offers patterns and instructions to enable today’s weavers to make it. Many Early American households had a tape loom for making the tape needed by the family, and this book offers a discussion of the people who wove tape, the patterns woven, and the types of looms used, along with over 280 color images. The book also gives step-by-step instructions for setting up a tape loom with warp threads, and explains how to weave your own tape. You can weave tape for similar practical uses as our forebears, or to create one-of-a-kind gifts and decorations like key chains, holiday garlands, or lanyards.
It was very interesting – I enjoyed the history of the various looms, and how people used the tape and then the quick demise when industrial made tape appeared on the scene.
I am keen to try some of the drafts on my Inkle loom.
There were some ideas for modern projects with the tapes, but I am not sure how popular they would be (maybe with recreators?).
Here is a post Kate Davies did about her weaving. Reading her adventures spurred me on to buy an inkle loom.
Filed under Book Review, Inkle Loom, inkle loom, weaving
Finished Item – Scarf
I made a scarf, it’s blocking at the moment.
I used recycled sari silk from the Thread Studio.
The pattern is the Boomerang Shawl.
Mine is quite small, I will need to use a shawl pin to wear it. I should have bought two balls and just kept going.
Filed under Knitting, Patterns, Yarn Stash
School Girl Stitching Club Project 2
Project 2 from the School Girl Stitching Club (From the Crewel Gobelin) has arrived.
Have I done anything with project 1? No, I have not. These samplers are beautiful and they come beautifully packaged with lovely materials.
This one has, in addition, a little project we can work on, with all of the finishing materials.
Filed under Canvas Work, Cross Stitch, Cross Stitch, Embroidery, Inspiration, Purchases
Finished Socks
I finished another pair of socks (I think that’s three for the year – I was aiming for one a month but that’s not happening).
There is a K2P2 rib, and then just stocking stitch. Heel flap and gusset.
Here is the information about yarn and needle size.
Filed under Knitting, Sock Knitting, Yarn Stash