Some Recent <del>Obsession</del> Hats

Addendum: Of the hats below, 6 have sold as of 1/5/2010. The first, second, third and fourth hats sold as well as the seventh and the thirteenth. Eventually they will all find their perfect heads!

So I have a little bit of a problem. Sometimes I can’t stop.

I make hats. A lot.These are some of my latest creations.

At the time of this posting, all of these are available.Contact me if you see something you are interested in. We sell most of the hats here at my shop for $60 - $80 with the entrelac and handspun hats coming in at the higher end of the range there. Each one is created with love, and joy, and no two are ever the same!

There are a couple below for which I will post patterns, the top two hats are crocheted with a strand of Noro Kureyon carried with a strand of Debbie Bliss Angel, and also below there are a  couple of  Feather and Fan pieces, a cowl and an Infinity scarf, with Noro Kochoran,  The pattern will be posted shortly!

  

Ready for a good soak.

I cut this one off the loom last night, and now it is ready for a bath…I only had to re-thread a few strands of the warp through the heddles and sley the reed with them…Thanks for the help, Amanda! This process was to set up for the next scarf and remove this one so I did not crush all the dimensionality of it as I continued to weave. I may leave the rest on the loom, but I really wanted to cut this one free.

I am not sure how much additional waste there is by cutting and retying but I am trying to be careful with my warp yardage.

 

Some close ups:

I am pleased with the Saori on the HD loom, it is really fun to have the freedom to play! That said, I believe the next thing up on this warp will be one of my handspun merino, angora and sequin yarns.

I hope it works out, but either way, I will post pictures!

Do something you love today. It’s good for  your health!

♥

Yarn

New Set of Saori

Here is the warp. It is alpaca and rayon. The variation in the weight will produce some fun effects. I am excited to see how it will play out.

The gold threads were an accent just for the fun of it.

I am slaying the reed here, I think. That happens after threading the heddles.

 

Here I am doing the hemstitch after the first few rows.

 

Just finishing the hemstitching.

The pink and black silk fabric is from a skirt that really never worked for me, Stephen handled it swiftly with the rotary cutter and the self-healing mat.

My new boat shuttles are SOOO Big! that I can put the fabric on them, and thread it through the holes! Yay!

I put some bright orange-pink roving in here between the green. Hey, it matches my hair!

I love playing with patterns that develop with roving and yarn together!

    

And so it goes…I will post more when I make some more progress!

Warped again!

I am going to do more Saori style weavings on the big loom now.

This is what just came off of the Cricket and at the time of this posting, it is still available.The pink and green one sold almost instantly.

Price is $150. USD email me if you want this one.

Off the Loom……

I Love this style of weaving, I am having a ball.

Hand Spun Fun

What I did on my day off!

 

New Handspun Yarns from Tiny Airplanes

I am so excited to get a restock of the lovely Nikki Virbitsky’s Tiny Airplanes yarns. Nikki hand dyes the wool which is superfine merino, and then spins the most interesting yarns with all kinds of fun things included and plied into the mix. Great fun!

 

This one is corespun with mohair wrap, a special request from a friend who is in love with Tiny Aiplanes’ yarns.