Cardwoven belt
October 21, 2006 at 7:07 pm | In Weaving | Leave a Comment
This is a belt I wove for use with some of my summer pants, after I found it impossible to find a fabric belt in any other colours than loud and screaming (pink anyone?). The yarn is 100% cotton and quite heavy, which made this a reasonably quick project. Except for the finishing, of course, which took a couple of months lying around and considering ideas on just how to finish it. While looking for a buckle or some such I found those bamboo rings, and I kind of like the effect. The warp on the other end is just cut off, and I don’t really know what to do with them. There’s just too much of them for any knotting or braiding to work. Since the weft is secured nicely, I might just leave them as they are, maybe a bit shorter. I’ll have time to consider this now, since summer is definitely over.
Some technical details: The pattern was created with a simple 8forward/8backward turning sequence and two adjacent holes of each colour in the pattern cards. The belt ended up a bit smaller than expected since I was running out of warp yarn.
Embroidered flowers
October 1, 2006 at 7:27 am | In Embroidery | Leave a CommentTags: cross-stitch
I made this little picture on my recent holidays, because I wanted a nice, portable project to take along. The finished size of the motive is just 6*6 cm. I bought this pattern basically because I liked the way the roses on the left site were done. They really pop up and give the piece an interesting 3D-Effect.
The cross-stitch and backstich are done with just 2 or even 1 strand of embroidery floss, while the flowers where woven around 5 radially placed stitches with all 6 strands.
While I’m not doing a lot of embroidery normally, I always like to try out new techniques and this project was nice because it adds something just a little bit different from most of the counted cross-stitch patterns you can buy.
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