Snowflake Trim for Kisa's Sarafan
This is only my second time ever weaving, and my first time using more than one color or using a draft. I'm excited about it, and I hope I don't mess it up! I am using the Boundweave Snowflake 2 draft, but I have added a little bit to it to give it the look I want. I am weaving this as a very thin trim to sew onto a sarafan I am knitting for my porcelain ball-jointed doll, Kisa, to wear for Christmas.
11/23: Just finished it, and am quite happy with the results. I need to make another strip of it though, otherwise I won't have enought to finish the sarafan the way I want. So I will be starting that later today. I can't decide if I like the right side or the wrong side better, though, they are both pretty!
Snowflake Shawls
This is the draft from Twill Thrills page 55.
I have 375 ends + 2 floating selvedges. It is weaving up very easily so far.
I am amazed at the size of the snowflakes !
silk shawls
Draft from Twill Thrills. The weft silk was the finest I have ever used, a 80/2 from Colourmart that I just could not resist. Thought I'd have to use it doubled, but it worked out fine single. A very see-through quality, though.
It is impossible to get the right picture.
4H tencel snowflake scarf - 1st try
I had intended to weave a teal and gold snowflake pattern with borders and a little sparkle from the gold metallic, but that was not to be. I wound on the pirn holding both wefts firmly between my fingers, but they wound off separately as I wove making a mess. I tried running the metallic through the hole of the tencel cone above it to get a little plying in the weft and I wound onto a bobbin so I wouldn't lose the plying as the weft fed off the pirn. It still didn't work - not enough plying and the metallic was too stiff so there were little gold metallic loops all through the fabric - not very comfortable. So I cut it off and it will become a small purse or journal cover. The close-up is the closest to the real color. The rest of the warp became this scarf.
4H tencel snowflake scarf
This scarf was part of a wider, longer warp (to be posted later). When the first scarf didn't work out, I cut off the border warps and wove until the warp rod was at the back of the heddles, so it's shorter than usual and has no fringe.
I knew it would be short so I decided to weave beads into the bottom of the hem. I wove in one pick of seed beads in a tabby shed using a pickup stick to adjust for the size of the beads. I used sewing thread to weave the turned-under part of the hem and got a fairly low profile hem, hardly noticeable when worn.
I really like this scarf, especially after I wore it today (in windy 20 degrees F.). It is heavier than I expected, really soft, silky, "squnchie" and warm ...and I got compliments on it! I think this fabric has a good hand for a tailored or semi-tailored jacket as well as for a scarf. I don't think it would wrinkle at all.
The photos were taken on two different days with different cloudiness, so the close up is closer to the real color.
Boundweave Snowflake 2
I did a full wall hanging of boundweave patterns of special things in my life, here is one of them
Boundweave Snowflake
I did a full wall hanging of boundweave patterns of special things in my life, here is one of them
