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Katrin
Spinning Speed Ponderings, Part I.
15. April 2024
As far as I know, some fabrics do get washed before they are sold, and some might not be. But I can'...
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Spinning Speed Ponderings, Part I.
15. April 2024
I have seen you say few times that "no textile ever is finished before it's been wet and dried again...
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...
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How on earth did they do it?
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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...
It Is Finished!
You remember the UFO sprang thing that I blogged about a while ago? Well, believe it or not (I certainly have a hard time believing it) - it is finished!
I started making this because I wanted to practise basic sprang, and wanted to try the "endless" circular setup, where you basically work one closed loop. As you can see on the photo, I totally botched the start, where the structure is much more loose than it should have been. The start is not right at the bottom of the thing because I also managed not to push both sides in completely evenly; it thus slipped to one side of the thing.
The project was successful insofar as I really got in a lot of practise with the basic move... and successful again as at the end, I got to learn how to do double-layered sprang (yay!) and try out methods for doing the last few rows.
And now it's finished. It is quite stretchy, so it will eat up a lot of things - though they can be awkward to get out of it, because it's so long. It has been used successfully already to carry glass to the glass container:
Quite a few more would have fitted, but that was all we had to carry to recycling.
This is how it looks stuffed full of cushions:
So... learning-wise, it was a good thing. Bag-usability-wise, jury's still out; because the relaxed state is such a narrow tube, large things won't fit through the opening easily. It still does seem useful, however, and on the plus side, when you're done carrying things, or when you want to bring it along clandestinely, it can be worn as a summer scarf:
...and that makes it definitely the weirdest bag I have!
I started making this because I wanted to practise basic sprang, and wanted to try the "endless" circular setup, where you basically work one closed loop. As you can see on the photo, I totally botched the start, where the structure is much more loose than it should have been. The start is not right at the bottom of the thing because I also managed not to push both sides in completely evenly; it thus slipped to one side of the thing.
The project was successful insofar as I really got in a lot of practise with the basic move... and successful again as at the end, I got to learn how to do double-layered sprang (yay!) and try out methods for doing the last few rows.
And now it's finished. It is quite stretchy, so it will eat up a lot of things - though they can be awkward to get out of it, because it's so long. It has been used successfully already to carry glass to the glass container:
Quite a few more would have fitted, but that was all we had to carry to recycling.
This is how it looks stuffed full of cushions:
So... learning-wise, it was a good thing. Bag-usability-wise, jury's still out; because the relaxed state is such a narrow tube, large things won't fit through the opening easily. It still does seem useful, however, and on the plus side, when you're done carrying things, or when you want to bring it along clandestinely, it can be worn as a summer scarf:
...and that makes it definitely the weirdest bag I have!
