I wasn't sure that I could make a rug work on my loom. I shouldn't have worried! It wove just beautifully. I used an 8 dent reed but only warped it for 6epi (thread 2 dents, skip one across), and for a 2' x 3' rug using the
strips of cotton t-shirts I had cut up and wound into balls a few months ago. I must admit I did miss the shuttle throwing because I had to use the shuttle sticks for the fabric but it did weave up faster than the fine threads! It required one t-shirt for each of the stripes, about 5-6" per shirt so I used 6 shirts for this rug. ( I cut the shirt off at the underarms and then spiral cut it to the hem for one long strip.) It is now recorded for my notes and future plans.
I finished one sock and started the second last night.
I dyed the sock ribbing-it turned out much as I had expected-since these are for me, I will have this happy reminder each time I wear them!
I dyed 2 more skeins for another pair of socks-I left these in the wound balls instead of skeins-it took up the dye very differently, of course, but it looks just as mottled as I had hoped. It will be fun to knit with something besides the natural I have been doing.
We have had 2 warring families of sandhill cranes in the yard. They are very loud when they are stating their territories. This is the couple that won the turf war-we have had them around for quite a while and they are very relaxed around us but very demanding-they have a soft spot for white bread tossed out to them and come right to the door and ask for some! It is still fun to have them ask-Nyki is impressed with their size and nearness-but I hope they won't become a bother-they are persistent.
Oh, I love to see these throughout daughter' yard! The prednisone has been great to give me a boost; a boost so good that I haven...
The rug turned out great!!! Where are you planning to put it?
ReplyDeleteAll of the socks are pretty -- and I think your ribbing turned out fine.
If the birds become a nuisance, we'll just have to bring David down for a visit...I'm sure his ministrations would convince them to back off for a while. :)
Nice rug, I bet it turns out to be Nyki's.
ReplyDeleteThe socks came out wonderful, I like the color even better now.
I can't wait till the day the birds come up and knock on the door.
I've been getting you turquoise and peach colored bags by the way. I have quite a few for you.
That Tshirt rug is great! Thanks for including the stats about how many shirts it takes. Somehow I imagined it would take a ton of shirts....we're always amassing shirts and it would be cool to make a rug out of them when they wear out!
ReplyDeleteGreat socks!!
That's amazing that you have those cranes right in your back yard!! We saw some on vacation - they were beautiful!!
Sue
And I see the rug is getting inspected!
ReplyDeleteI'm glad to know you can weave a rug on a normal loom because I want to weave a rug for Scott's "den." Also, the idea of using old T-shirts is great!!
cool rug - I have been planning to make one for ages and have collected a large bag of t-shirts - but putting up the warp is still a bit frightening:)) maybe I need to pass the border to pain with my collection of rags to get going?
ReplyDeleteWhat a novel way to dye yarn - never thought of that!
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