Fiber Musings – Page 105 – Random thoughts of a fiber enthusiast

Conference!

On 7 Apr, 2010

If I can’t entice you go come join in on the fun at CNCH in Santa Clara this weekend, perhaps this will. Tien‘s wedding dress and coat will be in the fashion show as well as in the gallery on Saturday and Sunday.

This year, CNCH has partnered with PenWAG for the fashion show. In addition to Tien’s wedding ensemble, there will be lots of other fabulous garments in the show. After the Friday night fashion show, the garments will be on display in the gallery for the remainder of the weekend. Â Daily admission to the gallery, exhibits and market is $10.

So, what are you waiting for? Come on down!

Curiously Addictive

By Ann

On 4 Apr, 2010

In General

Crocheted Flowers

Made with assorted leftover handspun and sock yarn. Pattern can be found here. You need to have a Lion Brand website account. But if you are like me, you use this.

And if you want to know what they are for, you just need to come to CNCH!

Sloper

By Ann

On 1 Apr, 2010

In FO, Knit

At my Fair Isle Yoke Design class at Madrona, Janine suggested that we develop our own sloper before embarking on a full blown design. I built mine out of handspun 3-ply polwarth (from Rovings, purchased at SOAR 2009).

I initially wanted a tunic length sweater. But when I tried on the finished sweater, it had that whole Flashdance thing going on. All I was missing were the tights and leg warmers. Since this was knit from the bottom up, I took a pair of scissors to the sweater and snipped off the bottom (about 5-6″), picked up the stitches and knit another 3″. Now it’s a slightly longer than waist length sweater. I would prefer another inch or so. It was okay before the second soak (after reknitting the bottom), but lost some length in the wash.

I’ve found that magical length is a fine line between too short and too long. I think I need to build another to validate my measurements. All the rest of the measurements seem to be bang on.

Oh, and the left hand side of the picture? That’s Ellie, on a hunt for something. I don’t know what. I didn’t notice her until just now, while I was cropping the photo.