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My first attempt at weaving, more about it here.

-robyn 

A little woven bookmark.

Posting this a couple days late because I forgot to photograph it on Sat. night when I made it. I wove two Weavette squares from my hand-spun, home-grown, naturally coloured, brown cotton. Then I sewed the squares into a bag. I messed up the weaving a bit because I was in a hurry on Friday when I was weaving the squares (Thing 22). I learned that brown cotton, loosely woven, bears a visual resemblance to burlap, so next time I’ll probably choose a different technique for this cotton.

I wove a couple squares on my small Weavette loom from the handspun naturally coloured cotton that I posted a couple days ago (before my eclipse pictures). I love Weavettes because you can make something from small amounts of yarn but the last few rows are a bit tough on handspun. The yarn can get badly abraded, so you want to start with a fairly sturdy yarn. I hadn’t originally planned to ply the yarn, but after producing half a square of brown cheesecloth, I decided that plying would be a good thing. It wasn’t worth setting up my Schacht spinning wheel. I had wound the cotton single into a center-pull ball, so I plied it on a square whorl drop spindle and wove it straight off the spindle (didn’t bother setting the twist of the plying since it was going straight onto the Weavette and I was in a hurry).

And my submission is — a valentine’s day card for my sweetie

Happy Valentine’s Day sweetheart.

My partner is a weaver.  Our son has recently expressed interest.  And he’ll be wanting to give every kid in his kindergarten class a Valentine.  So…. (check out the one in front of the toaster with a “thread” sticking up… it’s awe-inspiring to witness how NOT constrained by adult thinking he is):