Fiber Frolic 2011 - Pictures

My sprang class -- all my serious students!

Steph finished her bag in class.

Ta-da!

Rebekah all but finished her bag.  She worked on it all day.  That's dedication.  ;-]

Woody's fiber prep class:

There's Rebekah working away on her sprang.  ;->

The trick is to make the roving "unzip" from the drum just the way Woody demonstrated it.

Woody makes it look so easy.

Success!

Some other classes:

 

Tablet weaving

Some really kewl tablets made out of  Home Depot color chips...with hole protectors.

Lucet

Bjeux tapestry

Spinning circle:

Dyeing station:

Felted scarves: 

Indigo Tye Dye:

Some of the merchants:

The end of a long, happy day:

Sprang Class - Fiber Frolic

Here's a pic of a student working on a sprang loom.  Note the cord pushed to the top.  Loom was warped in the easy figure-8, with a string to hold the cross pushed to the top.

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Stretcher bars came and I'm putting the looms together.  Had to buy all new looms this time so I ordered smaller bars to keep the cost down.  Still plenty of room to weave.

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Sample loom for the class on Sat.

250 wraps on the bobbins.  Enough for two sprang bags.  20 loops on the looms.  4 skewers, 4 string place holders.  Tapestry needles.

Woven-Felted Scarves

Here's the original concept -- felted bit added to a gauzy material to create a crinkle or seersucker effect:

Zen Garden

This is a loosly-woven scarf with filmy bits of roving felted on that wouldn't distort the matrix very much:

Starry Night

This is another loosly-woven scarf with more substancial felted bits.  The idea was to allow the felt to create a seersucker effect:

Stones in the Steam

Sky Blue Necklace

Working on a new pin-woven tapestry necklace.

The previous ones were spacy black.  This one will be sky blue.  With longer raindrops.

A combination of this:

And this:

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Adding beads now.

You can use a tiny crochet hook to add the beads if they're large enough.

More beads.  I'm in the compulsive phase now.

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Weaving now.  Beads tend to move around or get shoved out of the way before they're locked down.

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A few more hours of weaving.

 It helps every now and then to trim the strings.  They only get in the way.

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The new cloudy moon is larger than the old cloudy moon:

They're actually side by side, not an overlay.  I prefer the way I handle the stars now, passing the weft under them instead of isolating them.

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Not much more to weave.  Then I can start in on the arms and clasp.

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Tuck, tuck, tucking threads to the back.  Still a few patches left to weave.

Ends all tucked to the back.  Now for blocking and weaving the arms.

My SCA Device

Mini-tapestry of my device for the Laurel's cloak project.  3.5"x4".  Just need to block it and trim & tuck stray ends.

After blocking: