I have been spinning yarn just a bit this week but not much, that is not my focus since I can't sell yarn at the Foothills Craft Guild show. Last week, while I was making my bags with handwoven fabric, I had a little trouble getting through all the layers of heavy fabric on my little sewing machine, I knew I needed to pull out the work horse, so my feet have been treadling on the Singer treadle sewing machine! It really works well and I have managed to get through another bag, and I have 2 more cut out, serged and almost ready for the next time I can get sewing. Life is busy around here and when I have small grandchildren around everything has to be put up out of harms way so I can keep my "no's" to a minimum.
I wanted to have Carol do a quality control on Tuesday before I proceeded with this project. She approved and gave me an idea what to price the bags.
This second bag is a fraternal twin to the first, same size, same shape and slightly different handwoven fabric.
I had already done the red and cream prototype and the first bag, so I was feeling pretty good about putting this zipper in. I pinned and pinned and then I stitched in it.
When I turned the fabric to top stitch I found that I had put the zipper in perfectly, except that it was facing the inside of the bag! Rats!!!! A patient 15 minutes with my seam ripper and I was pinning again and I did it right the second time.
I like these bags and I am rethreading the Burchard loom to continue with this pattern though It won't be in the hand dyed perle cotton. Never fear, I have quite the stash upstairs.
Today I cut and serged the pieces for 2 more bags. I had cut the lining ahead of time and I am beginning to see how I can streamline things a bit so that when I get a chance to weave or sew, I will be ready for it. My goal is to get at least one of the next 2 bags ready for the upcoming show.
Today between sessions at the ironing board and the serger, I washed a small black shetland fleece, it is going to be a lovely fleece to work with. It was given to me, and at first I thought it was ruined, but upon looking closer I realized that it was a 2 year fleece and the part that was felted was the outer layer.
I separated the two at the natural rooing line (yearly break in the growth) and was left with a very black very soft fleece. It washed without a hitch and it is drying upstairs in the studio. Once I finished with that I washed a bunch of my hand knit socks that I had been wearing these last few weeks. I couldn't believe how nicely they washed up. They will be dry by tomorrow and back in my drawer.
That is it for this week, Until next time, Happy Crafting, Tina
This second bag is a fraternal twin to the first, same size, same shape and slightly different handwoven fabric.
I had already done the red and cream prototype and the first bag, so I was feeling pretty good about putting this zipper in. I pinned and pinned and then I stitched in it.
When I turned the fabric to top stitch I found that I had put the zipper in perfectly, except that it was facing the inside of the bag! Rats!!!! A patient 15 minutes with my seam ripper and I was pinning again and I did it right the second time.
I like these bags and I am rethreading the Burchard loom to continue with this pattern though It won't be in the hand dyed perle cotton. Never fear, I have quite the stash upstairs.
Today I cut and serged the pieces for 2 more bags. I had cut the lining ahead of time and I am beginning to see how I can streamline things a bit so that when I get a chance to weave or sew, I will be ready for it. My goal is to get at least one of the next 2 bags ready for the upcoming show.
I separated the two at the natural rooing line (yearly break in the growth) and was left with a very black very soft fleece. It washed without a hitch and it is drying upstairs in the studio. Once I finished with that I washed a bunch of my hand knit socks that I had been wearing these last few weeks. I couldn't believe how nicely they washed up. They will be dry by tomorrow and back in my drawer.
That is it for this week, Until next time, Happy Crafting, Tina
1 comment:
That's a lot of socks! At first, I thought you were going to say it was the socks you'd whipped up this week in between the bags, because I know you're a human dynamo!
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