I have been on the hunt for a how to pattern for a ruana garment, perhaps a poncho. Spent most of the morning hunting online yesterday-with so so results. Last night I went through my stack of old Handwoven weaving magazines that went back to their first issue. I pulled several for ideas. I also found a vintage weaving pattern but I didn't care for how she treated the neckline at all-cutting a curve and then binding the handwoven fabric-not good.
So waking up early this morning I did more online searching-and finally found it! It was an older post that I ran into over on Word Press. She knits, spins, and weaves and makes lovely garments Here is her post I found. Love the look of her results, don't have to figure out how to double weave, no cutting involved I love it! Will use the second diagram but will weave a bit wider-I have a 30 inch loom. She also has a part 1 post for ponchos.
Those of you that knit she knits lovely shawls, cowls and more. I ran into a couple of dye posts-but for me I would never dye with kool-aid, although I know many do this.
We have rain coming in today. I ended up with around 23 bottles of the ground cover seeds-creeping thyme-all set up now. I have probably 6-8 more bottles to finish up the seeds. The goal is to get rid of the grass here. These will go down by the water's edge.
I am bad, I am missing a few Yellowstone colors-greens and the vibrant blues from the grand prismatic spring. So I shopped on Etsy and found the greens in roving to spin, and found the perfect fibers to blend together on my blending board to make into rovings. I had never seen a seller put together odds for this and at a good price too.
I bought these two fiber packages different but similiar-perfect for Yellowstone Photo taken from the Etsy shop These really look Yellowstone to me.
I fell in love with this one-merino wool and bamboo There are allot of aspens in the park so I wanted some yellows From this Etsy shop
and this green is a Shetland From this Etsy shop This one I may add some of it to the blending board
I like to support the Etsy shops and I always find lovely fibers there.
For a bit of a break, I grabbed a bag of white roving to spin, which is made up of several long wool breeds from the USA. I love spinning wool-it is going pretty well so far. I may need to natural dye this in the future. I brought along some dried mimosa leaves which dyes a lovely yellow.
Enjoy your day as you can tell I am back in fiber mode-haha Well until I find another botanical to turn into ink or paint-smiles
Note: I just changed the title of this blog post a bit-I weave but I do not knit-My Mom had tried to teach me knitting as she knit all of us lots of sweaters and such while growing up, but I never did get the hang of it. I do love to weave though
How beautiful is the green one. The garment that you knit with it must be very warm.
ReplyDeleteI ask: What technique will you use to wash the garment that you make with it and that it does not cake?
Good morning, I am a weaver so I will weave my project into a rauna. I have a gentle soap I use but it will be hand washed and rinsed-in a just warm water bath. squeeze to get the water out-no twisting-and then lie flat to dry.
DeleteGreat post. I love hearing about all the creative things you do. Those greens are amazing. I have bags of roving and some day should do something with it all. LOL Have a great day today.
ReplyDeleteThank you I do bounce around quite a bit-my main love is fibers If you have roving you could always felt it down into art or even for scarf we have a nice soaking rain today You have a wonderful day too
DeleteThank you Kathy for clarifying my doubt.
Deleteyou are welcome
DeleteYour fiber gives me the fiber urge too. Must be my eyes failing, having trouble reading your font on my iPad. It’s not you, it’s me. Lol
ReplyDeleteI love playing with fiber-you could felt some. My eyes are really getting bad too
DeleteEnjoy your knitting! Love your ground cover plans
ReplyDeleteI will be weaving with these-but I found a knitting-weaving blog that showed how to weave a rauna thank you about the ground covers-will look for some other varities too that may have colors
DeleteI really love that green one..beautiful materials.
ReplyDeletethank you I love these greens too especially the one with a little yellow
DeleteYou are a woman of many talents. I love the colors.
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Thank you Cathy-I do bounce around allot-I am ready to get back to spinning and weaving-I have my loom warped up ready to weave but have not been in the mood for it all winter-I actually weave more during the very hot summers here
DeleteYou search like I do, between the internet and pulling out magazines or books, I hope I find something. Sounds like you got lucky. And i love the new green wool. Have fun spinning and knitting.It sounds like lots of fun to me. hugs-Erika
ReplyDeleteHi Erika, and the search is always the fun part I think too. I love these two greens very much. I will be weaving with these hand spuns to make a rurna wrap. I never did learn how to knit haha My Mom did try to teach me I just never got it
DeleteLooks like you have found a fabulous blog and the weaving seems to be something that lady does a lot. I admit, it was all Greek to me, so I am glad you understood what she was weaving.
ReplyDeleteI was fascinated by her kool aid dyeing, although I would NEVER use my equipment for food again, although she tries to justify it because it is a food product. Turmeric and oranges are food items and I would never use the products for food use after using them for dyeing. Several years ago, I bought some kool aid thinking I might use it for fabric, but not wool fiber dyeing.
It's ironic, I love making soap from lye and a fat (oil, Crisco, etc) and you prefer the safer heat and pour method. You use those dyes that require a respirator and all kinds of chemicals I can't pronounce, and I dye using natural products. We need to live closer and teach each other our techniques!
Stay warm. We are in the deep freeze. This morning it was 60 F and now we are 28 F!!
I agree, we would have fun learning from each if we lived closer. Several years back I went to a quilt show with a friend that had lots of booths. One of the booths featured allot of dyed fabrics-I did not like the look of it, so I asked how she dyed it-with kool-aid I just would not do that-can't see how it would be permanent long term either.
DeleteI agree-I never use kitchen items for crafts-period. I have soap making, paper making, dyeing utensils that I keep in my craft room She does have great tutorials for her weaving posts.
I started dyeing allot of cottons-for quilts with Darma trading's procion dyes-I did not like wearing the mask for that at all. a few years later I went to all natural dyeing mostly on wools and cottons too using found botanicals in our woods-I really prefer that type of dyeing much better. natural dyeing cotton is a bit trickier and the mordant process is much longer. but I did get some good results
I wanted to try making real soap with lye but Larry said no way as I can be an accident waiting to happen haha. My skin prefers the creamy melt and pour soaps much better. I had bought some homemade lye soaps from Carol in Missouri-she used to join T-and I know she cured it properly but I couldn't use it-my skin needs a more gentle soap. I found friends to give it to though.
wow that is cold we are 60's today too but with rain most of the day-felt like a spring day we are getting down to 21 F degrees on Thursday night though-I will need to cover up my greenhouse bottles that night
I knitted at age 14, but think I forgot how to do that and there are too many other things atm...
ReplyDeleteGreat colors - looking forward to what you´ll make of them!
To rain and hugs to you and the lake
Good morning, I just never got knitting-the increasing and decreasing etc My Mom knitted us gorgeous sweaters when we were kids
DeleteI am happy I found a way to put the garment together. yes rain is a good thing hugs
I love that you are back in fiber mode! However, having never done spinning or weaving I sometimes get lost along the way. I will watch your link to better understand the process. Growing plants from seeds is such an exciting thing. I hope you have good luck with every tiny seed.
ReplyDeleteThank you for visiting, I do bounce around allot with my art or crafts but keeps things interesting for me-I enjoy planiting seeds too-Happy weekend
DeleteDear Kathy,
ReplyDeletehow great that you found a spinning and weaving blog that you like and where you can find what you need. You have a lot of creative projects with beautiful fibers and natural colors at the moment, I'm curious to see what comes out of it!
I can't weave and haven't knitted for a long time, but I can crochet reasonably well. However, I always have "phases" - sometimes I crochet like an addict, then I don't touch wool for months and have zero desire to do needlework...
All the best ❤️ Hugs - Traude
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Hi I am the same way, I was planning on spinning and weaving this winter but it was too cold in the room my loom is in and I wasn't in the mood for spinning-One day I just told myself time to spin haha Happy weekend
DeleteYou've been busy. The colors are we besutiful.
ReplyDeleteIt is early to start seeds here, but I might start a few.
Last years zinnias took nearly all summer to bloom well.
Its a bit early for allot of seed here too but hoping the ground cover seeds will be ok. I may start some zinnias too they are slow growers
DeleteYour roving is fabulous and oh, what a web you will weave when that is spun. I love that you use the thyme for ground cover. Your yard must smell fabulous!
ReplyDeleteGood morning, thank you so much. I grew some of the ground cover thyme in bottles last year and it does smell nice. the weather was rough last year spring so I couldn't work on the area the plants need to go-so right now it is out our front door-around here we can get a cold wet spring and then it can jump right into very hot some years hard to work around the weather
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