Weaving on cardboard

 I'm booked in for my Artists' Residency at the Ivanhoe Arts and Cultural Hub. I am so excited! Though, at the moment, it's not necessarily sure, as we're currently in lockdown. I can't see that changing till sometime in September, which will change how much I can do during the residency. And it means, that the residency is by no means certain as there are those that have missed out on their residencies. We'll see....

As part of the residency, there needs to be 'community engagement' which, for me will take the form of simple weaving workshops. Cutting out cards to weave something very simple like a coaster or a little more complex like a mobile phone cover.

These are really very simple, and all it takes is cardboard and yarn. I drew around my objects, cut slits at a distance I thought suitable and warped.

Very simple and reasonably quick. I've used three yarns together for the weft and it gives a nice feel. First the coaster.

The second piece, I tried to warp both sides and create a pocket. Worked reasonably well for a phone cover.

There are more options I might play with:

- using two pieces of cardboard to make a flap

- trying to attach a strap down the side, while weaving.

It's interesting to go back to something so simple, but which is very effective and useful.

A house warming present

It's nearly finished. All I have to do is wash and block it.

 It's called a Safe at Home blanket by Margaret Holzman (2020) and I purchased it off Ravelry. (Ravelry.com) The design is done in Tunisian crochet and all the yarn used was from my stash! 

(For a nice tutorial on Tunisian crochet see: https://www.thesprucecrafts.com/tunisian-crochet-stitches-979408)

I have only one hint. Pick your colours and then put each colour in a labelled bag. It's makes the colour you want easy to find, lessens tangles and you can easily add more yarn by just adding to the appropriate bag. This made life a lot easier!

It's a gift to some young friends of ours who have just purchased their first home. They're in Architecture and Heritage and it should be suitably appropriate. I started back in July and here I am in the middle of August and it's finished. 

And, in case, anyone is wondering, I'm going to start trying to blog more regularly. The reason I wanted to do this blog, originally, was to just write. For some reason I've always liked the idea of writing, but I'm not a good writer and I thought a blog might be the way to do it. 

I was inspired by a podcast I listen to. It's the 'Creative Pep Talk' by Andy J. Pizza. He's a little over the top but has alot of ideas and loves to share them. Episode 328 was 'If you only listen to One Episode of this show Make it This One'. In it he talked about the idea of creating a habit. Just do it, don't worry about how good it is, just get in the habit. So that's what I'm doing.

We'll see if it lasts!