Creative reuse..

The purpose - where I start - is the idea of use.  It is not recycling, it's reuse.
~ Issey Miyake

Once upon a time there was a sweater.

Soft.

Labeled made in Nepal.

Sitting by its sad self at the thrift store.

Of course I couldn't leave it there.

It came home to join pieces of:

~ other reclaimed fiber

~ thrifted yarn

~ donated yarn

~ a tiny bit of hand spun

(with bits of an Oscar de la Renta scarf spun in)

~ recycled sari silk fabric

..to make this..

Handwoven Saori style wrap 

created on my little cricket rigid heddle loom.

New.  Wearable. Use.

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Working Hands

Fluff with recycled bits..

Spun into yarn..

strung on a loom..

has made fabric.

It will never cease to amaze me what working hands can do.

 ~ One hand woven scarf created with hand dyed, hand spun yarn ~

Yarn Along..

The Antarktis is actually finished, but not blocked yet so I'll share that next week.

Today I had a second lesson on the loom... warping!

I chose to try weaving this fun yarn that I spun over the summer.  It is a blend of hand dyed fiber plus any other little bits I could blend in... including recycled sweater yarn, silk, taffeta from the thrift store.. those kind of things.

The plan is to weave with one of the singles that is still hanging around here unplied from Spinzilla.

It needed the twist set first.  

For now the weft yarn it is drying next to the wood stove ~

Can't wait to start on it tomorrow!

As far as reading ~ I've got my nose in a few books right now.

Currently enjoying this on the kindle via free library loan.

Anyone else enjoy library books electronically without leaving home?

~ 

Joining Ginny..

Yarn along..

Today I had my first real weaving lesson..

"Real" because after weaving this on a board with nails in it

I wasn't so sure weaving was going to be for me.

Turns out I was wrong.

(Thanks Carol and Marilyn and Chris and Ann ..xo)

After spending a lovely afternoon at the yarn shop..

I left with this..

.. a perfectly lovely, not so perfect, first weaving project.

Next week ~ learning to warp the loom.

The loom we used was an adorable little Schacht Cricket Loom.

Easy to use and perfectly portable.

Starting to read this..

The library list was long and well.. I just couldn't wait.  

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Joining Ginny..