Well, I finished my first bag. I was successful with the Leno lace, tho it doesn’t show very well here since I sewed it together upside down and didn’t notice until i had all the tails nicely woven in. Too bad. Anyway, I wove it on my 2 x 4″ Multi, I don’t (yet!) have a 4×6″. I think tho that I’m going to get out my prototype bookmark loom and work it on that. I don’t really need a soap bag, tho it’s cute. I enjoyed the Leno lesson and also found I like working with this line thread. I like the way it holds it’s shape, so I understand it softens with age & use so probably won’t stay like this.
Anyway, thanks to Jana for her lessons. If you haven’t visited her page you ought to! 🙂
http://eloomanator.eloomanation.com/

When I needed to loosen the extra loop with the linen yarn on the Multi, as Jana posted in her instruction http://eloomanator.eloomanation.com/?attachment_id=407
I found that the warps would not stay on the pins at first, so I used the old method we used to keep the loops on the pot holder looms for the kids. Put a rubber band around that row of pins. Worked great and when I needed to take it off to work the last row, I had used the slack so the threads stayed where they should. I’m not going to show you my Leno lace just yet. There are still a few ‘bugs’ to be worked out! I will say this… I pulled it out so often that I wore through my single linen thread and have a knot in the midst of my lace. I think I’m going to make a couple balls off this cone and ply some of this to make a slightly bigger and stronger yarn.

Managed to get this one poor picture of Sis at her spinning wheel. Kinko had wandered off so hers was unmanned– un-womaned –that is, when I took this. We spun and weaved and talked and in general had a pretty good time but it got hot yesterday and we were on the afternoon side of the road so we had to pack it in before the 4pm official time, tho I think it was after 3 & we were not the first to leave. Sis sold some skeins of handspun & the owner of the yarn shop we were next to took the rest of her basket of mostly single skeins on consignment, at her own request, so Sis could still make a few more bucks from the day.
We cruised the art gallery’s and I picked up the painting I’d won in a raffle to raise $ to pay for the artist’s co-op gallery lights. I’d hoped to have won my own donation back. I think it was one of my best, but it went to some lucky person! lol All in all a nice day but the heat really got to me. I was exhausted by the time we got home. Thank goodness for left-overs. Dinner was cold corned beef sandwiches and sliced tomatoes. 😀

Which is, as I said, about the same size as the unfelted 7″ tri bag. Well, it made really nice thick felt with no sign of the weave structure. I was not getting any ideas for embellishments until I spotted the button box so here’s one side of it. I ‘buttoned’ both sides. Added the braided strap and a lining…see below.
I have an idea for some slippers that I want to try next then I may get back to a larger tri bag. If any of you do this and get good results, please email me, I’d love to see. 🙂

I’ve had this fabric for years and finally found something it goes with! Has most of the button colors, or near enough. I braided the strap around a small clothesline rope both to make it a little larger and a bit sturdier. I hope! 😀

One of the local art galleries is asking artists to make award plaques from cd’s to be awarded to the winners in the juried show in Sept. (They get a more substantial prize as well, of course) So of course I had to play! 😀 This one is 2 cd’s and a double layer dvd…the purple. I had a heck of a time getting a good picture and they are different colors in different lights so I can’t even tell you which one is the ‘true’ color, so just picked my favorite. I used my little roaster oven that I have for crafts projects to melt them a bit and they were cut on the scroll saw. This one has black beads, the name of which I cannot remember! :angry: and a bit of red foil and the glittered netting.
It was a fun project and there is already an amazing collection of Awards on display at the gallery.
There’s another one below.

This one is 4 cd/dvd’s and some sheer ribbon. Plus the little broach in the center.

Wow! It really felted. I really didn’t think it would get this small. It’s about the same size as the Pink one I wove on the 7″ loom. Well, when it dries I’ll do some embellishing and see what i come up with but I’m going to have to find a new yarn to try to get a bigger bag. The yarn I used to knit the kids purse didn’t felt all that much, so I think I’ll try that next.

But… now I know! :hehe:

This was made on the 12″ tri loom. It is handspun, but out of my stash and it’s been so long I don’t know what the black yarn is. The colored is easter egg dyed cormo and quite a bit finer than the black. I’m about to toss it in the washer with the felting pants so we’ll just have to see what happens. :O
I made another cord braider and used these yarns to weave the handle around a piece of rope to make it both stronger and larger. I’m not intending to felt it. I suppose it will eventually felt just from handling, which will be fine. I think this one may get a gusset in the sides, too, but I’ll decided that when it come out of the washer.
Wish me luck! :laugh:

The Pink Glitz! This is some novelty yarn I bought at the dollar store. Lots of eyelash and glitz. It worked up nicely for this project and only took one skein. It’s Patons Glittallic, a 50 gram skein. The bag needs seven 7″ triangles and a strap. I think there was enough yarn left to have made a rope strap for the bag, but I had been playing with that oriental braiding…kumihimo… I made one of these disc’s from a plastic coffee can lid (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aO_jaLp5FYI ) and had this long ribbon braid that just happened to match the yarn perfectly so I used it for the strap. It had a lovely dangle of ribbon on one end and I happened to have a little gold hummingbird charm, which I threaded on one ribbon end. I think it makes nice little bag. It could be an evening bag, but glitz & glitter seem appropriate anytime these days. It’s easy to make. The pattern is one in my book Hats & Bags. 🙂