It's a twill pattern that used a straight draw threading. It was somewhat simple and a good project to start out with.
Sunday, June 26, 2011
Handwoven Shawl
This is my first weaving project that I've finished. It's soy silk (warp) with mercerized cotton (weft). It is somewhat uncommon for a woven item in that the stripes run along the length rather than the width. It's super soft and I'm pretty happy with how it turned out!!
It's a twill pattern that used a straight draw threading. It was somewhat simple and a good project to start out with.
It's a twill pattern that used a straight draw threading. It was somewhat simple and a good project to start out with.
Friday, June 17, 2011
Save the Date Cards
Here's what we ultimately designed and printed after taking the screen printing class! We had a lot of fun with the whole process. Our screen printing teacher was such a cool guy and he really helped us out a lot (Chet at the T Factory at the UCSD craft center = amazing!).
Tuesday, May 3, 2011
Screen printing
Chris and I have been taking a screen printing class to prepare to print our own Save the Date cards and invitations. Here are some of the things we've been printing!
This was Chris' project for the first week: an image from one of the Sin City books by Frank Miller.
The second week, we cut images from rubylith. The rubylith was used to transfer the image onto the screen, and then we just pulled the ink. The above image is mine; below is Chris's.
Most recently, we did a high-contrast project, where the image could not have any mid-tones (grays). For this, we just Photoshopped an image and sent it to the instructor digitally. He printed it (with a regular printer) on a transparency and then used that to expose the screen and transfer the image.
Monday, March 21, 2011
ohmygosh it's March
Well, it just so happens that I started school shortly after the last posting...when that happened, my crafting time became pretty much non-existent. Wah-wah. It's okay, though, because I'm getting smarter and stuff.
I have been steadily working on one project, though, which is another scarf for a friend. It's knit, and it uses a really different kind of pattern, which I love. It's super easy too; it took me a minute to figure out the whole "slip stitches with yarn in front" thing, but once you start doing it, it makes sense.
Anyway, here it is:
I also made myself a little cheat sheet for the first few stitches of each row:
So, for example, row 8 says "k5, p3" so I start knitting the row with that and then just do k3, p3 until you get to the last three stitches of the row, which are always sl 3. It's a lot easier than either following along with the full pattern (once you get the hang of the pattern, you don't really need all of that info), or trying to count it out every time I start a new row. After I finished that row, I'd put a dot in the right column and keep going!
It's not done yet, but I think I'll have it done just in time for Summer. :)
Monday, January 3, 2011
Happy New Year!
I realized that I had off-loaded a lot of stuff I made before I even took pictures of it...oops! I'm going to make an effort to take pics of things as soon as they are finished so that doesn't happen.
Anyway, I hope everyone had a lovely New Year's and is starting the year refreshed.
Here's a scarf I knitted (my first knit project!) out of some alpaca yarn my mom sent me:
As you can see, it curled up along the edges...it's because I didn't use a pattern and so had decided to knit one side and purl the other; as it turns out, that's called a stockinette stitch and will always make your piece curl. It's most often used for sweaters, because when you attach a seam it doesn't curl anymore. Oh well, lesson learned, and it's still a pretty rad scarf.
I started a new knit project as well, which I am excited enough about that it's taking up almost all of my crafting time :)
It's called a curbing bag and it's pretty fun to make.
I am also determined to get back to my weaving project this month!!
Finally, Chris and I got engaged, so I apologize in advance for the fact that many of the future projects this year will probably be wedding related. But still lotsa fun!
Anyway, I hope everyone had a lovely New Year's and is starting the year refreshed.
Here's a scarf I knitted (my first knit project!) out of some alpaca yarn my mom sent me:
As you can see, it curled up along the edges...it's because I didn't use a pattern and so had decided to knit one side and purl the other; as it turns out, that's called a stockinette stitch and will always make your piece curl. It's most often used for sweaters, because when you attach a seam it doesn't curl anymore. Oh well, lesson learned, and it's still a pretty rad scarf.
I started a new knit project as well, which I am excited enough about that it's taking up almost all of my crafting time :)
It's called a curbing bag and it's pretty fun to make.
I am also determined to get back to my weaving project this month!!
Finally, Chris and I got engaged, so I apologize in advance for the fact that many of the future projects this year will probably be wedding related. But still lotsa fun!
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