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Katrin How on earth did they do it?
27. März 2024
Ah, that's good to know! I might have a look around just out of curiosity. I've since learned that w...
Heather Athebyne How on earth did they do it?
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...though not entirely easy. I've been able to get my hands on a few strands over the years for Geor...
Katrin Hieroglyphs.
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Yes, that would sort of fit that aspect - but you can also go from bits of woods to sticks if you ar...
Bruce Hieroglyphs.
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I think the closest English equivalent would be 'Down the rabbit hole'. It has one entrance (No, not...
Harma Spring is Coming.
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I'm definitely jealous! Mine disapeared except for one pathetic little flower. But the first daffodi...

It sprang from the frame.

With the sprang workshop at Rothenfels coming up, I have caught another instance of the sprang fever - so when there was a little time at the Forum, I made a very narrow but long-ish setup for sprang, and I did a few twists and turns on it now and then.

Today, during my lunch break, it came off the frame... finished, with some random patterning (and a few mistakes I was too lazy to fix). The patterning was made to explore transitions between s- and z-slanted interlinking, and to take a close look at how things look when they are right. I also got to test how alternating s- and z-interlinking makes a true braid in 1/1 oblique interlacing - the actual thing I did have in mind to try when I made this setup.

Towards the end, it looked like this:



I remember how utterly awkward it was when I tried the first time to work the last centimetres with knitting needles... but at one point, it sort of clicked, I found what kind of motions I need to make with the needles in order to sprang my way happily across the threads, and now it's actually comfortable. There is a point, in fact, where I find it much more awkward to still press my fingers into the shed, though still entirely possible, than to switch to nice thin pointy sticks.

Anyway, I worked my way across, I tried (succesfully) combined s- and z-interlinking with the needles instead of my fingers, then finally chained up the thread bits in the middle... and then I sat there with one long, narrow strip of stuff.

Which I promptly coiled up, sewed together, and now I have a small, fancy-looking bag with an unstretchy top edge:



Now I only need an idea what to use it for...
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Japanese Weaving Exhibition in London.
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Christa Schwab on Freitag, 30. November 2018 18:38

Ich würde Nüsse, Karotten oder Zwiebeln drin aufheben.

Ich würde Nüsse, Karotten oder Zwiebeln drin aufheben.
Katrin on Montag, 03. Dezember 2018 20:22

Ich hätte die Katze als Größenvergleich dazufotografieren sollen... Nüsse würden sicher reinpassen, eine kleine Zwiebel auch - aber damit hat sich's schon : )

Ich hätte die Katze als Größenvergleich dazufotografieren sollen... Nüsse würden sicher reinpassen, eine kleine Zwiebel auch - aber damit hat sich's schon : )
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