Now that we’ve emerged from our recent bout of crazy winter weather, it kind of feels like it was just a bad dream.
We’ve snapped back to our usual cool raininess, so that’s a relief, and I was able to make good woolly use of the couple of snow days I got due to inclement weather closures at work!
This little woven piece was inspired by Donna Schoonover’s Cotswold Lock Rug.I started a couple of years ago, but I hadn’t been back to the loom for a while. The unexpected time off and general icky-ness outside provided just the right impetus to get-er-done.
The locks are from Griff, who I lost last spring, so the piece has kind of turned into a memorial of sorts. He had the most beautiful locks- long and crimpy with curly sunbleached tips. I think that I am going to turn it into a wall hanging, perhaps for my office.
I also got to work on spinning up some “Faux-berball”, my worsted-weight take on my favorite commercial yarn, Schoppel Wolle Zauberball Crazy. I haven’t done much dyeing recently, and so didn’t have a lot of crazy colors poised and ready to participate in this project, so I decided to go with indigo and naturals.
I tried to wind it into a cool little muffin like the original to show off the colors shifts, but couldn’t quite figure out how to do it by hand, so here is another shot to show the progression-
It’s probably a little bit underspun, but it’s really nice and lofty. Should be fun to knit with.
Love the Griff tribute!
thanks. feels good to finally get it off the loom.
This is lovely! Sorry it’s a memorial piece :’-(. Tried to subscribe to your blog, but I got jibberish code. Sigh… Nice site!
Sorry about the trouble with the subscribe feature. I’ll see if I can get that straightened out this evening.
Just wanted to follow-up about the subscription issue. The widget on the sidebar enables subscribing via a RSS feed, which requires a RSS feed reader. I have just added a plugin that permits folks to subscribe via email. To use that feature, go to the comments for any post and click the “notify me of new posts via email” option. I think it does require a comment to process, but you can just put a smiley or something 🙂 Hope that helps!
I just figured out how to use that same plugin to add a “subscribe by email” widget to the sidebar. Learning so much about this stuff today. Thanks for prompting me to look into it!