Micro Petit Point

 

Another project that is close to being taken off my 'to do' list. Just need to finish the blue background on the top one, the center is totally done. Should be able to finish this in the next day or so. Then I'll still have to make the chairs, though I haven't decided if I want to use them as dining chairs and hope that Nicola will design more (don't like stitching the same thing more than once), or if I'll just use them for chairs for a living room.
These are the tapestry chair seats designed by @nicolamascall being stitched on 60 count instead of 56 count which is the reason I had to make the background a bit bigger. I used Au Ver a Soie Soie Surfine silk thread.

More Knitting done

 

Very unusual construction of this sweater. First you knit 2 straps that go across each shoulder and then down the top of the sleeve. Then pick up stitches along one long edge of a strap, start shaping the shoulder and neckline until it gets to the part to add the stitches for the front neck. Then do the same for the other strap and then join by adding stitches for the front neck. But you do short rows all the way down the sleeves to the wrist to shape the sleeves.

It is a dolman sleeve type sweater, so once the sleeves are about the size needed to the underarm seam you start casting off until there are only stitches left for the body of the sweater. You then do the same for the upper back and finally join to knit the body. The pattern is Circe by Natasja Hornby (Moonstruck-knits), and I am using Knitpicks Wool of the Andes DK in the colour Fairy tale. I started in back in Dec 2022, but only got one strap knit before it got put aside.

I have in the meantime gone back to organizing yarn, and while I was going through the bag of striping yarns, I decided that some of that yarn could be designated for skirts. I am going to knit a skirt in worsted weight leftovers of Noro yarns knit in vertical strips with some shaping. And I do have an ice brand yarn that is a fine sport weight in very neutral colours of greys and blues, and found a Drops Designs pattern done in garter stitch triangles for a skirt.

Some day I am going to use up all that yarn in my yarn room, either in knitting or use it in weaving, and I may also sell some, who knows. And maybe some day I'll also finish my WIPS, again who knows.

Getting back to posting

 Well, I think I am again going to try and be more consistent in posting to my blog. Have mostly be posting on Instagram and Facebook in the last couple of years, but since I seem to be talking to thin air there, I might as well talk to thin air on my blog, at least I can write more than on insta or fb.

I have been very busy in the last few weeks trying to sort out all my yarn, both for weaving and knitting, and I have come to the conclusion that I either need to knit faster and get through some of the yarn, or I need to get back to my looms and use up the yarn a bit faster that way. I just need some good inspiration for weaving fabrics for clothing, and most of what I see is people weaving either teatowels, scarves or maybe shawls. I don't need any more teatowels, and I don't do scarves or shawls, and I just can't be bothered with the hassle of selling any, which would mean running to the post office on a regular basis to get things in the mail, and that would be an issue in the winter, since I don't drive on icy or snowy roads.

I have been looking at the patterns that Sarah Howard (Get Weaving, or Wear Your Weaving) has in her Etsy shop, She mostly makes clothes out of fabrics woven on her small table loom, and she does a lot of the weaving with heavier yarns, like knitting yarns, or yarns that she has spun. And that has me now thinking I might get a small table loom that I can use upstairs, but I will think about that some time later this year. I really don't need another loom, but I actually might get more weaving done if I don't have to go downstairs to do it, but who knows.

So, I guess I'd better get working on clearing out the basement/studio so that I can get at my looms, and also have room to wind a warp.

In the meantime I am getting a fair amount of knitting done during my breaks from organizing. This top I just finished, using Butterfly Super 10 cotton, pattern is Moonglow top by Zaneteknits. I just need to finish the ends and block it. Was a fast knit, took less than a week.