Purple and blue, brown and yellow!

January 15, 2012

Just a shot of a couple of more pieces that were done over the course of my healing (in December).  The yellow and brown one was done on the pvc pipe loom, and I forgot to take pics while in the process.  Here is a shot of the loom with the bell pull piece on it, in case you haven't seen it.

It is rather labor intensive, in that I make a backstrap warp, mount it onto the loom bars and then wrap them around this frame and lash them together.  If you look closely you can see the wooden loom bars up near the top (I am almost done with this piece in this pic).  You can also see the threaded rods inserted into the pvc side bars for tensioning.  Works great! Rotating the warp when I can no longer find enough space to weave is a bit of a pain, but since this shot I have worked on that problem also.

But as usual, I digress.

Here is the brown and yellow piece I did on the same loom.  The yellow is called Maize and it is #3 mercerized cotton crochet thread, and the brown is #10 in Russet.  I love these colors together.

I see a day of sewing in the near future!

This one was done on the backstrap and gave me fits.  I had a really hard time winding warp with a bum shoulder.  It will probably just be a table runner.  Too wide for an envelope pouch, but might work as just a tri fold ....we'll see when I break out the sewing machine.

Happy New Year!

January 1, 2012

Boy I hope this year goes better than the last one.

Just a couple of pictures of my hard won weaving's after the car accident.

The purple and blue one was done on the backstrap...too much pain. The yellow and brown one was done on the PVC pipe loom.

 Unfortunately I don't have many good pics of the loom.  The pic above gives you an idea though.  If you look closely you can see threaded rods in the frame, these are great for tensioning!  (this is the bell pull piece.)  It works but is a bit labor intensive for rotating the warp and the actual warping process is a pain.  I warp a backstrap and then wrap it around the frame, you can seem the backstrap loom bars lashed to one another at the top.  Seems to make more sense to me if I am going to make a backstrap to just use it as a backstrap.  Go figure.  But it was alot less painful on the shoulder using the pvc loom.

 BROWN AND YELLOW PIECE PIC HERE



BLUE AND PURPLE PIC HERE


I also warped up a thin red white and blue piece.  I am determined to make a belt in the 'Captain America' colors for my friend Max's son.  I wanted to with the skulls, but double weave was over kill and it wasn't quite long enough.  I was pleased just to get skulls at all since it was a failed balance double weave warp, saved by converting over to the warp face double weave.  But I digress.


RED WHITE AND BLUE PIC HERE