February Retrospective & March Plans
Twill Towels
I crafted a set of handwoven towels using various twills in this video. This was a derivative project based on the School of Sweet Georgia Twill Gamp (you can see mine at this link).
I chose to work in 8/4 cotton as it was available and also a nice transition from fingering weight wool so the patterns would be somewhat similar and my sett not too drastically different. The towels all came out well and will be loved and used for years to come!
See the video here (or jump around with chapters on youtube) to hear my thoughts and see some of the resulting twill patterns!
February and early March were very jam-packed in terms of learning! I spent most of February deciding how to move forward with the twill gamp, learning new techniques in the school, and then weaving my derivative project. I also took a break from weaving while waiting on supplies to arrive. There was also a super tiny shop update over on my Etsy shop (linked in my footer) to make way for and fund some new supplies! My ocean twill and spiced berry twills are off to their new home!
More recently I carried over my slow life practice to non-fiber mediums - technology! I enjoy crafting custom keyboards and decided to live my spoken mantra:
“Often Silent; Never Idle”.
This is a Drop Carina, a frosted acrylic base with a brass plate. I’m using 205g0 lubed Sakurios silent linear switches and POM Jelly Keycaps.
I was in a pink and gold mood coming off of the lavender and brown of my towl project.
In the upper left you can see one of my othr projects thats yet to be completed, a restored 5.5 generation Wolfson DAC iPod Classic.
Back to Fiber Arts below!
I had these supplies for about a year but had been happy with my other builds until I had a moment of downtime thanks to the supply chain.
I also decided - I loved to infinity the School of Sweet Georgia study group format. I enjoyed it so much, in fact, I’m going to try my hands at lace knitting again. I’ve just finished the beginner lace knitting course as a refresher for the Lace Mastery course. Now to practice and take my knitting to the next level while I move leisurely into new weaving techniques in color and weave/overshot!
Cheers!
See below for some other recent photos!
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A abundance of towels! I was able to squeeze 5 decently sized towels out of my 4.5 yard warp.
This is the pattern from the SOS Twill Gamp project that I fell in love with instantly. I chose the threadings for these towels because of this specific pattern, and extrapolated out other potential treadlings for this threading. I love the little chain links that develop from an M & W variation over point. I plan to create some yardage for home textile with this pattern, tone on tone.
Even after assembling the Carina, the solid brass plate shows through the POM keycaps. A very nice addition to my desk. And Typing without legends is no worry for touch typists. This update doesn't have too many typos (I hope🤞 )!
I chose a mixed layout for my keycaps. There are n legends but with the color spacing, if I do need to orient, i can easily through blocks. POM is a special material and wonderful for keyboards as it wont degrade like other materials, or show shine or wear from repeated and extended use. These came over to me from Australia in 2020.
I chose to bandaid mod my board and i also disassembled and custom lubed the spring of each switch. Both in hopes of minimizing undesirable tones. While the switches are silent linears, there's still a distinct but pleasant quiet typing "thock". All thanks to the modifications, foam, and my keycap/plate combo.
I split my towel warp in half. The lavender half is straight draw while the forest neutrals are point. I warped 4.5 yards of 8/4 cotton at about 17 inches in the reed. set at 15epi. My little bobbin buddy kept me company while weaving! It is a "Moodie" from the talented ceramicist and artist Aloe Frost.