what if i try weaving on the commuter train...? 
tapestry bookmark.
wool and silk on linen warp
6" x 3/4" without fringe
made on bead loom
small plastic fork beater
needle woven with tapestry needle
braided fringe
reversible kilim technique.(slit tapestry)
woven on a commuter train.
total: 3.5 hours
Search
Categories
- 3D (2)
- Applique (54)
- Backs of things (22)
- Batting (7)
- Cloth stories (1)
- Color (15)
- Container study (2)
- CQR (14)
- Crayon staining (3)
- Crazy quilting (23)
- Crossover technique (31)
- Design (14)
- Discharge (10)
- DIY (1)
- Dolls (2)
- Dots (41)
- Drawing on fabric (12)
- Dyeing (9)
- Edge treatments (64)
- Embroidery (33)
- Fabric makeover (15)
- Faces (1)
- Feathers (3)
- Felting (1)
- Fringe (4)
- Fussy cut (16)
- Fussy patching (2)
- Hearts (2)
- Holes (31)
- Ikat (7)
- Indigo (33)
- Journal page (3)
- Kantha (3)
- Kilim (1)
- Lace (1)
- Linen (17)
- Mending (9)
- Mola (7)
- Napped cloth (1)
- Nine patch (28)
- Online instruction (1)
- Painting on fabric (14)
- Paper Piecing (1)
- Paperless piecing (1)
- Patchwork (81)
- Playing with patterned cloth (4)
- Print inspiration (16)
- Published (1)
- Quilt weaving (13)
- Quilting (20)
- Ragged edge (47)
- Recycle (9)
- Redefining tradition (1)
- Refashion (9)
- Reverse applique (20)
- Rubbings (1)
- Running stitch (2)
- Scale (2)
- Seams (24)
- Seeing through things (15)
- Sewing machine (20)
- Shibori (11)
- Silk (22)
- Skatching (6)
- Squares (8)
- Stars (1)
- Stippling (9)
- Stitch (24)
- Story cloth (2)
- Texture (11)
- The nature of dots-series (22)
- Trapunto (3)
- Velvet (2)
- Video Tutorial (2)
- Vintage print (2)
- Weaving (7)
- What if Diaries (9)
- Wool (5)
- Working in a series (10)
- Working with heavier cloth (1)
- Workshops (1)
- Woven patch (1)
- Wrap stitch (1)
what if #92: wool on wool
....i used to be a weaver and every weaver knows, you can only use so many scarves. anyway, i have a stack of those that didn't excite me much, and i had a people powered felting needle laying around but not much used. and some old hand dyes roving not much used. i tried applying some designs to the old scarf that was not much used. this will be a makeover to be used. my inspiration came from here.
what if #106: crazy wool
the first question was what if (?) the crazy block is made of all wool? i have a crazy collection of wool scrap from my weaving days. fabric and yarn and roving. still playing with what if(?) i overlay the crazy lines over a patched grid. curved this time.
....but the underlying question was really, what if(?) i use a cotton foundation? because i have always wanted to prove some old sewing rules wrong. off to wash it. 7" square, english paper pieced, quilted and decorated with wool applique and wool yarn. (continued here).
what if #107: wool and cotton continued
....a break from CQR-on the lighter side..., so what IF sheep could fly? this is just a wool embroidery test. and i mixed a scrap of appliqued wool in for good measure. all sewn to cotton on a linen foundation for a machine wash test. my weaving wool has been eaten by moths into convenient sized lengths for sewing. recycling and trying new things.
wool. mohair boucle has been couched with wool covering sheep number one. wool split stitch covering sheep number 2. with a bit of straight floss filler because i ran out of wool on that commuter train.
what if #110: weaving patchwork
....i have often thought how weaving is based on a grid system and have taken inspiration from woven designs when designing patchwork. so i was asking myself what if it is the other way around. weaving designs inspired by patchwork.
wool on cotton warp. 3" square.