nålbinding progress
May. 16th, 2010 12:13 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kareinaI took today off of work. Went for a walk this morning, and since my path happened to go past the Saturday market, I slowed down to look at some linen shirts, and wound up purchasing one. I am very glad that fashion has dropped the waistline on shirts back down again--the shirts one could purchase in the store back when I was living in Canada (2004) left my tummy cold. Today's shirt is long enough that I could wear it with a pear of tights and be considered decently dressed in any non-Muslim country (not that I'm likely to do any such thing out side of the house--I'd be more likely to wear a skirt or jeans under it...
This afternoon I finally finished the stitching on a nålbinded hat I've been working on for months. I foolishly didn't take photos of "before", which is a shame, since the shape *really* changed when I washed it in hot water. The initial shape wasn't too different from the hat that![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
racaire1 made when I taught her this stitch., though the top of mine wasn't quite so round, since my initial decrease once I'd gotten it as tall as I wanted was a bit much. I was expecting it to shrink and tighten up, like the heavy hat I made with this stitch out of a thicker, less heavily twisted yarn (sorry, no photos of that one, either--it is at home, and the camera is with me at Uni). However, instead it grew! The stitch is one which can really lengthen, and it did. The hat is now conical, and I think I'll like it. I'll try to remember to take photos later (it is at home drying).
However, I do have some nålbinding photos I can share. First the hearing aid case liner, which is made of the same yarn as the now-conical hat:
As you can see from the liner in progress photo, this yarn really changes texture before and after washing--the left (lower) of the photo showing the two halfs of the case in progress hadn't been washed yet when that photo was taken, but the other half had been.
Note the beautiful blackwood case (8 cm diameter), which was a gift frombaronsnorri years ago--he found it in a shop in Richmond, Tasmania, in with lots of other lovely wood-turned items. I could have spent a fortune in that shop, had I a fortune to spend.
This evening's project was starting a pair of socks/slippers out of a very heavy yarn (the same weight as the above mentioned hat that shrunk). Someone (I don't recall who) suggested to me that an approach for socks done in period was to start with a flat spiral, and when it is big enough to cover the heel work a band out from it to wrap over the arch of the foot, attach it to the far side of the heel, and then spiral down to the toe. Then start another band spiraling around the ankle. This will be my first attempt at doing that. I started the project this evening, and kept switching back and forth between two different heels, in an attempt to make them come out the same. If I'd have been smart I'd have done one left-handed, and the other right-handed, to have the spirals going opposite directions. Since I didn't I'll do one right side up, and the other right side down so as to do the cross over the arch of the foot in the same manner, probably from the medial to the lateral part of the foot (though I have till I actually attach the band back to the heel to decide which direction it will be going). It took around 3.5 hours (during whichclovis_t and I played a role-playing game wherin my spaceship captain got to blow up an enemy ship. to get this far:
The needle in this photo is 6.5 cm long.
This afternoon I finally finished the stitching on a nålbinded hat I've been working on for months. I foolishly didn't take photos of "before", which is a shame, since the shape *really* changed when I washed it in hot water. The initial shape wasn't too different from the hat that
racaire1 made when I taught her this stitch., though the top of mine wasn't quite so round, since my initial decrease once I'd gotten it as tall as I wanted was a bit much. I was expecting it to shrink and tighten up, like the heavy hat I made with this stitch out of a thicker, less heavily twisted yarn (sorry, no photos of that one, either--it is at home, and the camera is with me at Uni). However, instead it grew! The stitch is one which can really lengthen, and it did. The hat is now conical, and I think I'll like it. I'll try to remember to take photos later (it is at home drying).However, I do have some nålbinding photos I can share. First the hearing aid case liner, which is made of the same yarn as the now-conical hat:
As you can see from the liner in progress photo, this yarn really changes texture before and after washing--the left (lower) of the photo showing the two halfs of the case in progress hadn't been washed yet when that photo was taken, but the other half had been.
Note the beautiful blackwood case (8 cm diameter), which was a gift from
baronsnorri years ago--he found it in a shop in Richmond, Tasmania, in with lots of other lovely wood-turned items. I could have spent a fortune in that shop, had I a fortune to spend.This evening's project was starting a pair of socks/slippers out of a very heavy yarn (the same weight as the above mentioned hat that shrunk). Someone (I don't recall who) suggested to me that an approach for socks done in period was to start with a flat spiral, and when it is big enough to cover the heel work a band out from it to wrap over the arch of the foot, attach it to the far side of the heel, and then spiral down to the toe. Then start another band spiraling around the ankle. This will be my first attempt at doing that. I started the project this evening, and kept switching back and forth between two different heels, in an attempt to make them come out the same. If I'd have been smart I'd have done one left-handed, and the other right-handed, to have the spirals going opposite directions. Since I didn't I'll do one right side up, and the other right side down so as to do the cross over the arch of the foot in the same manner, probably from the medial to the lateral part of the foot (though I have till I actually attach the band back to the heel to decide which direction it will be going). It took around 3.5 hours (during which
clovis_t and I played a role-playing game wherin my spaceship captain got to blow up an enemy ship. to get this far:The needle in this photo is 6.5 cm long.
