Flax splicing research article here and a less scientific article here Essentially you can make super super fine fibers by splicing instead of drafting and I wanted to see if I could do it. I’ve been doing a bunch of reading up on it and various techniques in various places. Initial thoughts on my experimenting, I did […]
Month: February 2021
Weaving Project #2
I made another thing! The only thing I’m not happy about is the braided ends and that was only so I could take it off the dowels and figure out what to do with it. I had planned for it to be a bracelet but as it turns out, I know nothing of how to […]
Second Project
I warped a second weaving project yesterday, right around lunch time and got so into it that I forgot to eat lunch. Whoops. I was essentially doing the same as my first project but muchwider. So I warped with the tatting crochet on my niddy noddy, so the warp is around 1 foot long. I […]
Another hobby
I said I wasn’t going to pick up another hobby but I figured out how to make the world’s smallest backstrap loom out of pvc pipe and started weaving with tatting crochet thread and a tapestry needle as a shuttle. oh well. I should be able to use this with larger yarn for narrow projects, […]