What's Warped Now: Recycled Curtains

Hey all! Sorry for not posting last week, but hopefully I can make up for it this week with the news that I made my first sale on Etsy last week! A lovely customer bought my Brown Shimmer scarf. Also, my Jewel Tone scarf was featured in the Just Jeweltones treasury. So I've still been busy, even though I wasn't weaving.

But I'm back to it this week. For a while now, I've been wanting to try some weaving projects with stuff other than yarn. When my roommate and I moved into our apartment, we picked out these cool blue patterned curtains:



We had some remnants left over, which I've kept in my closet for just such a project. This project was just an experiment to see how the remnant, cut into strips, would react while being woven. It's always good to do tests-- something that, in my impatience to get a project started, I often overlook. But now I have a much better idea how to use this the next time around.

What's Warped Now: Checkered Belt

I'm back with another black and white belt this week. But this time, instead of letting the variations come naturally in the weaving, I am alternating the black and white yarn evenly to create a checkered pattern.



Bonus! A few of my Etsy listings have been featured on Treasuries within the past week or so. Check them out:

• Yummy Yummy Yummy-I've Got Love in My Tummy! (Featured: Vanilla Chocolate Strawberry Scarf)
• Chocolate Covered Strawberries (Featured: Vanilla Chocolate Strawberry Scarf)
• Chocolate Covered Strawberries (different than the one above) (Featured: Vanilla Chocolate Strawberry Scarf)
• Grape Nehi and Orange Crush (Featured: Sunset Scarf in orange, purple, brown)

Thanks to everyone who added my work in their Treasuries! It's so nice to be included.

What's Warped Now: Pink and White Scarf

This time, I'm back on my Cricket loom with a pink and white scarf. After working on a few other projects, I had some pink and pink-and-white variegated yarn left over. Though I love to buy new yarn pretty much all the time-- even when I don't need to-- sometimes I use my leftovers to create new projects. This is one of them: a simple plain weave scarf with varied warp threads and a loosely-beaten weft.



And I've even got leftovers from my leftovers from this project, so you may see another project like this again.

Bonus: My other scarf with a combination of pink and white (and brown) was chosen as part of the Dripping in Chocolate Treasury on Etsy. Check it out!

A Very Crafty 2012

Hey all! It's been a few weeks since my last post and a lot has happened, so I'm just going to list and link:

• For the holidays, I got a new camera, a book on rigid heddle weaving, and a tapestry loom, which means I can weave all kinds of cool new stuff and then take great photographs!

• I made a bunch of custom scarves as holiday gifts. Hopefully I can get some pictures in the coming weeks of the recipients with their scarves.

• I updated my Etsy shop with new listings!

• One of my new items has been added to a treasury on Etsy!

• Lion Brand Yarn Studio near Union Square is starting a new group for rigid heddle weavers. If you're a rigid heddle weaver (like me) check it out-- their first meeting is this Thursday evening from 6-8 p.m.

• Three words: Handmade Ryan Gosling.

• And of course, because I always like to include a photo, here's a photo of the item listed on the Grape and Tangerine treasury: