End of the Year Report

Several of the blogs that I read have a year end review of their work, so I decided to put together what I did this year.  It was fun to do, I had to do some additional photography, but I think I got all my projects included.

January

Stitch Sampler

Shawl Sampler

I took a class in Russian Shawl knitting and spinning.  I learned to spin on a Russian spindle, knitted some beautiful pieces, and instead of knitting a shawl, bought one from the teacher!

 February

Knitted a scarf for a friend

Knit and felted a bag

Hand spun and knit socks

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

March

Left over hand spun for second pair

My favorite self striping yarn for socks

A new sock pattern with lace at the toe

 

Here I used self striping sock yarn to weave a scarf then added gold beads.

 April

 Although this picture shows unfinished socks, I finished this pair of St. Paddy's Day socks.  My sock knitting is usually done at work between taking phone calls.

May

Loved these fingerless mitts on the cover of Knitting Traditions.

Finally finished the weaving to make the Pin Keeper on my Bobbin Lace Pillow.

  June

Again my favorite sock yarn in rainbow!

A hat to match the hand spun, woven scarf

July

Over dyed some shirts

7 yards of shirt fabric

 

 

Fabric for the film set

Two gray blankets for the film set

First try with alpaca for pillow tops.

August

First try at the corespun rugs

Second corespun rug, I love the colors.

Moses look a like fabric for the film

Socks from work in Harry Potter colorway.

Ground loom for film set

Second warp weighted loom

Third warp weighted loom for film

Me at the film set with the first loom

September

Second warp for rugs

I got some with stripes

A couple that the yarn was varigated

and a wonderful white cloud with a pillow.

October

I put a dummy warp

on my Baby Wolf loom

and just kept retying new scarfs

in different colors

and different yarns.

Got another pair done at work

Wound a space-dyed yarn to give Faux Ikat!

 November

Kept adding new warps

to the dummy warp

for a total of eleven warps.

I usually wove two scarves

on each warp, some were

identical twins, some were

fraternal twins, you can see

some of the similarities in the

pictures, but I finally decided

that I had done enough scarves.

My last pair of  work socks.

First pair of unemployment socks

Knit some Soot Sprites...need to do more of these.

December

20 yards of warp yielded nine beautiful rugs from the core spun yarn.

Finally finished the knit shawl

A new table mat for the kitchen.

Head band test for my sisters headband.

Bag from a single strip of weaving.

Loved the hat pattern, had to knit it, love the wearer, too.

Wow, I managed to do more that I thought.  Of course, not working for a couple of months gave me more time at the looms.
I don't know what the new year will bring, but happy crafting to all of us.
  

It's January in a new year. Do you know what your Looms are doing?

I have been weaving a lot on the warps that were put on my loom last month.  And I have been getting started on the painting I wanted to do on my time off. 

The first two months of my severance has been spent enjoying the time and holidays with my family and friends.  But for the last two months, before I really start looking for a job, I will be trying to finish some of the list of projects that I had wanted to do.  

I have been painting the stair risers and side trim.

Refinishing under the bathroom cabinet from the water damage.  We replaced the sink and the faucets.

Just started the primer, you can see the water problems.

Primer coats finished, It looks a lot better.

And I want to paint the wall along the down stairs to put up some pictures.

 

 

Fixed the wall damage and primed the spots.

But back to the topic at hand...What are my looms doing?   

I have been getting some weaving done since the job loss, so I am pleased with the work done this past year, but there is still LOOM work to do.

The Big Mac (Macomber) is working well in a semi-tidy studio.  I am proceeding on the long term project of weaving a Tea Towel Calender.  Here we see hand painted, linen blend towels for October.

 The Baby Wolf sits in the corner of my bedroom with the December towels of the above calendar project.  This threading will be tied to a second green warp for the companion towel.

The Baby Mac sits in it's temporary space in the livingroom.  This is the second of the three warps that were wound for the class time.  I already wove off warps one and three.  I don't know where this loom is going to call home...

The Bergman sits un-sanded, un-oiled, and un-warped.  This is the loom that is replacing the Baby Mac in the livingroom...when am I going to get it done?  I have all the equipment to do it, the sand paper and oil are even hiding behind the right panel.

Dorothy is stashed in the storage room.  At least there is a different warp from the last January's picture.  This loom holds a warp until I need to put a new one on. I use it for class examples and to have a loom the students can try a new technique on.

And my poor Rigid Heddle and Inkle looms stashed in the closet with my class notes and examples.  The RH still has the same warp on it from last January (oh dear), but at least I have moved it out of the family space.  I need to get that sample done.