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.