Apple Jack Creek

Living on a small holding in rural Alberta, raising kids and animals, growing stuff, creating things with fibre, and living with PTSD. See more at www.applejackcreek.com.

Showing posts with label weaving. Show all posts

Showing posts with label weaving. Show all posts

04 June 2015

Swedish Loom Rescue: Part 1

Someone posted on Ravelry that there was a loom looking for a home. It was in pieces, had belonged to the lady’s grandmother, and was more o...

07 October 2013

Weaving with bamboo and organic cotton

I have some lovely bamboo here in a nice bright green, and I thought it would be great woven up into some baby blankets or something similar...

04 September 2013

Working

I love my work. Hand dyed yarns which will be packaged with my knitting patterns as shawl or sock kits. Gradient dyed alpaca/wool lo...

09 June 2013

A day in the Garden

Today was the Artist’s Day at the Pegg Garden, and it was really fun. When I left home the weather looked great, but before I got to the g...

08 June 2013

If I tried to put all this in my daytimer…

… I’d need an extra page. So here's what I've done so far: I got the motorhome cleaned, scrubbed, and smudged with incense. Put ...

05 June 2013

Sheet music for weaving

I mapped out the sheet music for the Ode to Joy with the colours I used in the warp for the fabric I made , since I want to be able to easil...

04 June 2013

Artist’s Day at the Garden

I’ve been staggeringly busy getting ready for Artist’s Day at the Pegg Garden , which is this coming Sunday (won’t you please come out and s...

22 May 2013

The music begins

I did some test weaving on the Ode to Joy warp yesterday evening, and settled on a draft called ducape, which creates a vaguely ridged fabr...

20 May 2013

Music, math, and fabric

I was looking around for interesting ideas for what to weave next, and I stumbled across a kit for some tea towels that were called Mozart T...

03 April 2013

Backstrap Rigid Heddle Loom

Tomorrow and Friday I’ll be at an alpaca show doing a spinning demonstration, something I’ve done several times before – always a fun (if ti...

01 April 2013

Not many words…

… but lots of threads. Test piece with organic cotton, twill weave. Many small pieces, all different colours. Twill. Will probably...

30 March 2013

Resting

Apparently, I can still overdo it without realizing it. I spent most of yesterday weaving – trying out different ways of working with a po...

24 February 2013

A horse blanket, on a horse!

Remember the test weaving project I made? It was the sample weaving for the coats, a horse blanket of 100% wool, which proved that the fabr...

05 February 2013

The coat, on a person. Me, in fact.

I wore it when I drove to get the mail and take my library books back … yep, it works. :)

04 February 2013

Hand woven wool coat: completed

It’s done. :) This is: approximately 3 pounds of yarn five hours of loom preparation around eleven hours of weaving ...

03 February 2013

All the pieces

I warped the loom today for the sleeves and got them woven – yep, all in one day. I started warping midmorning and was weaving by just after...

31 January 2013

The first coat, underway

I got the loom threaded and sleyed today, and started weaving the first ‘body piece’ of the coat. It’s woven in two big pieces, left side an...

30 January 2013

It’s not as complicated as it seems

The following opinion may be blasphemous but I'll say it anyway: I don't think there is anything particularly 'mysterious' a...

28 January 2013

It’s off the loom …

The wool blanket is off the loom and in the washer. I hate this part: waiting to see how well it fulls, how much it shrinks … gah! It’s spin...

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