Comments (0) Throughout the month of May, my friend Elisa and I spent our Saturdays at the Weaver’s Guild taking a wonderful class on woven shibori taught by Traudi Bestler. Woven shibori was developed by Catharine Ellis and it was her book, Woven Shibori, that we worked from throughout the class.
Back in April I took yet another class at the Textile Center, this time taught by Susan Stein on silk fusion (also known as silk paper, but silk fusion sounds cooler, doesn’t it?)
These last few months have just FLOWN by and I am so behind on so many posts. So without further ado, here are some long overdue photos of the awesome weekend workshop I took at the Textile Center back in March, entitled Artful Knit: A Sculptural Approach to Knitting taught by Adrienne Sloane.
The Madre went above and beyond this past Christmas and gifted me several awesome knitterly gifts, including a beautiful set of 10″ Straight Harmony knitting needles.
I quickly decided that the polyester case they arrived in did not do them justice and they needed some sort of fantastic vessel to display their rock star qualities. Enter my crazy idea to attempt another crochet project with a big pretty ball of Noro Big Kureyon that’s been kicking around in my stash for who knows how long.
I quickly realized that whatever it was I thought I learned how to do over Christmas (rav link) was not what one would call ‘normal crochet’. This latest attempt (rav link) ended up being a free form conglomeration of crochet-like stitches that sort of looked like I intended. (Actually, I’m sure they’re some sort of valid crochet stitches but they’re definitely not the basic sc, dc, and tc stitches the original pattern I attempted called for…)
Enter the ever awesome Crafty Planet to the rescue! This past weekend I took the first of three beginning crochet classes which will hopefully set me on the right crochet path once and for all. We’re working on a market bag which so far looks pretty cool although not exactly to the ‘looks like a bag’ stage yet.
Maybe I stand a chance at tackling this crochet thing yet!?!
Saturday I took another class at The Fiber Studio – Nuno Felted Summer Collage Scarf taught by Jill Lynn. What a great class!!
The night before I did some frantic last minute shibori dyeing of some ugly silk, cotton and linen shirts I bought at a local thrift store. What else are second bathroom bathtubs for anyway?
Jill was great at sharing all sorts of little tips and tricks, ensuring we all got great results.
The front of my scarf consists of my shibori dyed silks, cottons and linens, along with some devoré satins and velvets I picked up at The Fiber Studio. The backside is merino top and several silk hankies I also picked up at The Fiber Studio.
I love the incredible textures you get in nuno felting!
I can’t decide which side I like better. The silk hankies give such a beautiful ethereal effect.
Another great felting success!
Today I took the Paint A Wool Skein class at the Weavers Guild. Aimee Radman is a great teacher and it was a really fun class.
We mixed enough colors to paint two skeins. The hardest part was waiting for the colors to set and yarns to cool before the final rinse. 
The colors really blossomed beautifully after finishing.
What a great class!
Tonight was the second night of our Fair Isle class, so rhymeswithfun and I stopped at POP! for some delicious eats before heading back down the street to Crafty Planet.
Delicious Chicken Satay Salad anyone? Or perhaps some yummy Pasta B?
My hat is coming along well, although I really hope Gretchen (our awesome teacher) is right about it settling down some once I block it. I was a bit tight with my stitches in the beginning, but I think I’ve finally got the tension thing a little more under control. About time, I say. Look at those ripples!
I have a about 8 rows left before I block it and then I’m done!!
I changed the Fair Isle motif we were given for class a bit. And by a bit, I mean I completely redesigned it.
Any ideas what it might be?
Rhymeswithfun and I had a great night last night. We started off our evening with a delicious dinner at Snap! They have the cutest lights and quite tasty pizza.
Afterward, we headed up the street to Crafty Planet for our first night of Fair Isle class. We had the choice of leg warmers or a hat. Both of us decided to go the hat route and to design our own patterns. Here’s what I have so far:
I’m really glad I forced myself to learn how to knit continental last year since that makes knitting with yarn in both hands sooo much easier. Now to just get that whole “tension” thing under control…
I dipped my yarn three times and what fantastic results!
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