Tea towels and silk scarves

Another tea towel nearly done. Only 10 left! I don't have a lot of time to weave at work, so I'm going to start going in a bit early if I can to get it done. And I've given up for a bit on the overshot. Maybe once I'm closer to the end of the warp, I'll try to fix it.

Blue stripes

In other (great) news... I sold two hand dyed silk scarves today! That's four total over the summer. Fingers crossed that a few more sell!

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More tea towels

The loom I brought to work hasn't been seeing as much action as I would like. First it was too hot to be in the upstairs in that building, or I forgot to bring more cotton, or we were busy, or I needed a break from working and needed more than anything just to sit and do nothing.

But I finally got one towel off. These are the set of towels that I decided to try overshot with. Of course since I've never tried overshot before (and will be learning it next year in school), I was bound to make a mistake or two. My main mistake was that I didn't research what the sett should be - in other words, I didn't really do my homework. I am using 4/8 cotton and chose 12EPI as my sett. Previously, I'd used  14EPI, but I knew it needed to be a bit more spread out because I was planning on doing mostly plain weave. Little did I know, the sett for overshot needs to be even farther apart. So I did my first towel and it didn't look the greatest. It definitely looks better in the picture than in real life.

Overshot attempt #1

Believe me, it doesn't look like this in person. You can see the pattern starting to show, but with the tabby shots, it just looks too spread out in person. So I understand why the sett needs to be farther apart. 

I cut this towel off last week and might try changing reed sizes. I have a 10 reed I'm not currently using, so I feel like it would be worth it - otherwise, all 11 remaining will be completely plain weave within occasionally shot of blue thrown in there.

Oh well. I'm learning. :)

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Another Fibre weekend

I was in Fredericton this past weekend to have another spinning weekend with some girls from school.  But it was so unbelievably hot that I didn't end up actually doing much spinning. The feel of my touching the unspun fibre reminded me of going out in hot sweaty bars and women flipping their hair around and smacking you in the sweaty arm and the hair would stick there for a couple of seconds. Gross.

Photo borrowed from Jasmine

One of our (favourite) teachers, Rachel, was getting married on Saturday night, and her reception was open to the public, so we went. It was a lot of fun and the warm welcome and amount of love showed to us by the couple of teachers there was great. I'm glad we went.

The girls!

And of course hanging out with those fibre girls is always fun. And we ate well too.

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Knitting

I've been slacking on my posting now that I've started back to work. It's hard to get back in to the swing of things, especially being on your feet most of the day. But it's been going good thus far. And yesterday I decided to knit (by hand).

Hooded baby sweater

It's the beginnings of a baby sweater for a friend of mine. Hopefully she doesn't read this blog :) I don't really have any concept of what size it's going to be. I'm following a pattern, but it definitely (to me) looks bigger than a new born size. Oh well, I guess I'll just have to hope for the best! I think she's not due til the fall anyway, so the sweater should be ok. Fingers crossed!

It's so satisfying doing this sweater because its coming together quite fast. I've never done baby clothes, but I think I like it! Plus, isn't the yoke adorable?

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