Time gets away from you

In my last post I was showing progress on my first finished scroll blank.  I finished it, and submitted it at a challenge based event and won the scroll blank challenge.  Granted I only had one competitor, but it was still nice to win.  The scroll was then donated to the Barony for use.  I now have about a dozen scroll blanks finished and another several in various stages of progress.  We shall see what happens.
Very recently I finally warped my inkle loom and started that project. It is a simple color progression pattern across the warp, maroon-red-orange-yellow-cream, with a cream weft.  This time I used wool (stash-busting) and I will see how that works.

Selective progress

Still nothing up on etsy, but I have been busy working on things.  Some chain maille, some spinning, and some illumination. Genuine evidence of the previously posted green yarn

Also illuminating progress

There is an arts and sciences display event happening soon (november) in the area, and there are several challenges to the populace.  One of which is to make a scroll blank.  One of my stated goals for AS50 is to make 50 scroll blanks.  They won't be done by november (I start student teaching next week) but the smaller challenge is getting me off my duff and working actively on progress.  

Technology can be wonderful

I just discovered how to link my etsy store to a page in facebook that is independent from my personal page.  Theoretically this blog post will also repost itself there now too.  I guess I have no more excuses to delay populating the store with the stuff I have made for sale.  I am focusing on getting things ready for christmas sales.  I am spinning up yarn, and making ribbon origami ornaments.  I finally figured out how to arrange the hanging loop.  Hopefully there will be pics soon.

scatterbrained but moving forward

I have been experiencing hobby adhd.  A little spinning, a little inkle weaving, a little paper and ribbon origami, etc.  You get the idea.

I have a thought.  I may be fairly sporadic about posting, but I have yet to receive a single comment.  Please feel free to leave comments :-)
enjoy

Been busy

I have been spinning and I have also rewarped the inkle loom. The white yarn pictured below was spun as singles a long time ago, as was the bulk of the green, however I spun the remainder of the green and plied them the other day.  I pulled out the antique clock reel and made skeins of plied yarn.  I made the white mostly so I could free up the bobbins. The white is corrieadale and the green is Rambouillet by a touch of twist purchased at the Maryland Sheep and Wool Festival. It spins as long draw beautifully.

wheel in foreground a clock reel in background of last pic.

Other handspun includes:
flickr pics

Sprang

Sprang. The original stretchy fabric.
This is some of the sprang work I have been doing.  The yellow and the purple are both of wool, and the blue is of cotton.  Wool is MUCH nicer to work with.  The nature of sprang plays a lot with the twist in yarn, and the cotton has no natural spring of its own.  By the end I was basically working with collections of singles that weren't staying together very well.  I kept doing ply-split spranging and then having to go back and fix it.  These are all the simplest pattern.  Alternating rows of
1F (1B 1F)rep 1B
2F (1B 1F)rep 2B
which makes no sense unless you have any experience with sprang.  Basically sprang is a continuous warp around the dowels in the pic above giving a front layer of threads and a back layer.  Your hand is placed between the layers and 1F means that 1 thread from the back is brought Forward, and 1B means 1 thread from the front is sent Backward.  repeat, placing the small sticks (dpns) in the place where your hand was and spreading apart (1 up and 1 down) to create the new shed of front and back ready for the next row.

I can't believe how long is has been since I posted!

I have not been idle.  The embroidery I needed to finish, was finished.  I got my journeyman status in the aAthena's Thimble guild.  Everyone was to nice and helpful.  I have mostly been baking bread for the SCA lately, rather than fiber crafting.
Unfortunately, I can't go to Pennsic this year, but hopefully next year will work.  Most of the local activities are Pennsic central at the moment, and I have had a strange schedule, so I haven't been playing much.

In terms of crafting, however, I purchased an inkle loom (Finally!!!) at crown tourney.  Since then I have made several straps.  hopefully I will figure out how to get the photo from the phone to the computer wirelessly.  There has also been fun with kumihimo and chinese braiding.  I have even been exploring sprang to good effect.