Ryan's new gloves and a frogged sweater

I'm trying to finish these gloves for Ryan before he leaves for Alaska for the summer but I find myself setting them aside frequently and looking to my other projects. I think it is because I don't really believe I have enough leftover sock yarn to finish these and I'm putting off the inevitable of finding out I don't have enough yarn as I'm trying to complete the pinky finger. I also know that I will so have to abandon these nice looking stripes for solid turquoise and I'm not convinced it is going to look okay though Ryan says he is okay with this.

And here we have the latest victim of my merciless frogging. I knew I wasn't liking this project and I really really needed a cardigan so this yarn is currently hanging in the shower drying in anticipation of my next sweater project which is Oblique from Knitty. I've swatched and I'm ready to go.

More terrible photos of my projects. I uploaded these from Flickr and they aren't very good but I haven't figured out why. They obviously aren't big enough or something...

silk scarf/shawl continued

Every time I look at that photo I cringe. It absolutely does not do justice to the finished project which is silky and drapey with a very linear pattern which appealed to me. Unfortunately I turned in the scarf on saturday to be included in out guild booth in Helena in June. So it will be awhile until I get it back to take a proper photograph. I get quite nervous when presenting my projects to the guild as they have so many years of experience and I often find myself doing something a little unconventional only because I didn't know any better. I had some trouble with the edge threads breaking on this project which is I assume because I shouldn't have used the single ply silk yarn as the warp. I was able to salvage the project with an improvised temple consisting of a couple of +paper clips, some leftover 5/2 pearl cotton, and some plastic containers filled with rocks.

One last note....I used pascal's triangle to design the stripe pattern within the summer and winter structure. I love that!

Bad photo of silk shawl.

MAWS project complete

Darn. The camera is home but no photos yet. I finished the silk shawl/wrap project on the small loom this week and it is lovely. Not what I planned, but very nice indeed. The yarn is Henry's Attic 1 and 2 ply Rapunzel (100% Tussah Silk) dyed by me using Earthues Natural Extracts. The mordant was alum and cream of tartar and the dyes used were Logwood Purple and Grey. I used the 1 ply for the warp which was a mistake and used a Summer and Winter pattern. I accidentally set the warp wider than I had planned hence I have a much (3") wider piece of fabric than I intended. Ooops. So it's sort of a weird size, somewhere between a scarf and shawl. This project is for the Bozeman Weaver's Guild booth at the MAWS conference in Helena. We each picked a photo of a Montana Wildflower to use as inspriration. I chose a photo that I had taken while on vacation in the Pryor Mountains and I was using slide film at the time so I don't have a digital copy...only a print. So I'll tell you the flower was obviously purple. Photos tomorrow hopefully.