Another project for the recycle show. It was a challenge! I almost blew it today but was rescued and so it’s okay. I won’t tell you what I did because it was just to dumb to admit! :blush: Surprised? No, I didn’t think so. Oh well, “All’s well that ends well”. Right?
This is going to be a bit chunky. Those shells are 5×3″, I think the whole thing weighs a couple pounds, too. I don’t think I’m going to get the Oyster Eater to model it! :laugh:
Ah well…

Hope your day is sunny & warm!

Here’s a special loom Randy built for a weaver who wants to make the March Bag from the Handwoven Magazine’s on-line series. This one was designed by Maria Cristina Capello of Brazil. She says this one was woven of sisal, but that hemp or linen would also work. I have some cotton yarns that I intend to use as well. This loom as the spacing called for in the project. And he has the jigs all set if anyone wanted a similar loom. This loom could be used for other projects, of course. I’m pretty sure the same project could be woven on our regular square looms, tho the texture of the weave would probably be a bit different. I haven’t had time to experiment with it yet, but if any of you do, please let me know how it works out!
The project can be found here:
http://www.interweave.com/weave/projects_articles/Handwoven-Bag-March-08-Capellotto.pdf

PS: I’m sure some of you are familiar with Jana of eloomanator. She has made this project and posted about to to her blog: http://eloomanator.eloomanation.com/ She made her bag using her regular 7″ Hazel Rose square. I was sure it could be done but hadn’t gotten around to trying it myself. But now we know! Thanks, Jana!

Not much to say about this but just showing the edging I worked on the hypotenuse. the first row was a half double crochet, a row of single crochet and the last row was reverse single in every other stitch. It pulls in a bit and that helps the fit around the shoulders.

Here’s my Recycle Shawl. Worn but clean working man and woman (& probably some kid, too) Levi pants past their life cycle as clothing becoming a new fashion statement. This is for the April Recycle Show at the Downtown Gallery. Not only are the jeans recycled, but the glitz you see there is thin strips cut in a spiral from mylar chip bags. It may or may not get beads. The mylar is a bit light weight and I’m thinking a bead on the fringe pieces may give it a bit more ‘body’. I worked a yarn edging along the hypotenuse to even things out and give it a soft feel there at the ‘neckline”. The rag strips looked a big ragged… duh! :laugh: … but I wanted to neaten it up.
This shawl is heavy, too. Not really soft and cuddly, but not bad and certainly warm. So if you have a jeans and sweatshirt lifestyle, start saving them., You can make a pocket quilt to carry in the car for instant picnics, and a shawl to wear to the rodeo, from the pant legs!

Here’s a change from snow pictures! :laugh: The daffies are back! They never fail me. My daughter planted these before she left home and they come up every spring with a few more there. The other bed are the ones from my Mom and they are also sprouting, tho I need to get out there and dig out some blackberries, too.
Sun is shinning and the snow is melting rapidly. It’s 58 degrees, a lovely warm nearly spring day! Randy and I are working in the loom shop and raking and pruning by turns. Hope you are enjoying your weekend, too.

I think she turned out so well that I just had to share. This was what I did in class today. We’re doing figures and portraits and I’m having a great time with it. For my homework this time I did a Martha Steward mask that was a big hit! 😛 They want me to put it into the Class show at the Highlands in June. It was a gag really, for a remark our instructor made earlier but… hey! We can all use a MS mask now and then! :laugh: Anywho, I really like this long legged mahogany haired lady.

And I am still working on The Project. 😉

Dang! I’m in the front room this time!!I’ve been promoted! That’s mine there with the black canvas and the 7″ square underneath. That’s the loom Randy made from the walnut tree that got washed out in the ’97 flood. I titled it “My Loom Contemplating It’s Place In The Cosmos” The Big one is called “Application of Theory” ; “Yarns handspun by Hazel, the other by Rumpelstiltskin”. The other is gold colored wire with silver beads strung randomly on it. I don’t know if anyone will pay my exorbitant prices but my fellow classmates liked them! That’s what counts, huh? If you can impress your fellow artists, it doesnt matter if it doesn’t sell! :laugh: Well, I don’t think any (many?) of us here really do this to sell, we just enjoy sharing. When I get a bit further along with my Other Project I’ll post a photo here. That’s the one hinted at in the previous post.

Heheheh :hehe: I’m having the best time with Art this year! Got my stuff in Highlands Gallery for the fiber show. My major piece doesn’t photograph worth a darn. At least not with my ‘skills’, but it’s Titled “Application of Theory” is is handspun wool & alpaca & gold wire woven on the 12 and 3.5″ squares. They are mounted on a black gessoed canvas and I was delighted with it. This stuff in the photo is for the April show at the Downtown Gallery for ‘recycled art’. Or art from recycled? I don’t remember the wording but I’ll have a couple for them, too. It just occurred to me that I should have Randy make up a large square of the Philippine Mahogany from the Craftsmen era houseboat that he remodeled in San Francisco Bay. I have some yarn I spun from carding waste and yarn snippets to weave the square with. That’d be the dandy!
It’s for the same show but you’ll have to wait and see what the above is all about. 😉

I wove this little piece for the fiber arts show at one of our local galleries. It’s not very complicated but I like the way it looks. The loom is one Randy made from our black walnut tree that was downed in the flood of 1997. The yarn is some handspun wool but I’ve forgotten the breed. I wanted to do a couple in wire, but I’m afraid that I wouldn’t be able to get then off the loom and the loom was not intended to be a part of that idea.
Other than this the only pieces I have for this show are a felted purse, a little bead purse with an inkle strap, and a blanket/bedspread, none of which I have pictures of yet.
My best ‘art’ ideas are for the recycled show in March. I love recycled art! I’m not going to tell you, tho, in case there’s a local reading this to steal my brilliant ideas! I don’t get enough of these to share. :laugh:
And… I’ve already got one for next years fiber show… unless I get it done and have the opportunity to show it before then, of course.

They’ve been predicting some storms again and it looks like Mother Nature is of the same opinion. Not nearly as impressive in this little photo as it is looking out through my window, even looking though the trees. We’ve had almost two weeks of sunny blue skies so guess we can’t complain. The snow had done some shrinking and melting and, except for the mud, that’s good. Randy’s been busy helping it do that and we can turn in the driveway now so I don’t have to back in every time, and can even drive to the shop.
He’s been busy in the shop, too. filling orders and building up a stock for the summer since we’ve decided to go to Black Sheep Gathering in Eugene, OR this summer, after all. And we’re working on a new loom. One that you can weave like that little plastic or wood loom we all know about and you can only find on ebay these days. I think we’ve got it, too.:)
But now I’ve come down with somebodies ‘bug’. Sore throat and headache… today is the first Red Hat get together in quite a while, but I think I’ll be missing it. 😦
Hope you’re all feeling well & staying warm!