Scarves

I'm weaving scarves for the craft sale. I'm using the same fibre as I used for my yardage, (50/50 wool/silk blend), but it's set slightly farther apart, so I don't have quite as many ends per inch. That's great, but is decided to make each scarf 72" long. So it's taken me longer than I anticipated. Dressing the loom was a breeze compared to the yardage, so that's a positive. Plus instead of doing a set of three, I'm doing four. Because why the hell not? After talking with a very interesting and inspiring lady, Christine (who has made a living weaving for 40 years) a few weeks ago, I decided to make my scarves into infinity scarves. Which means no fringe, but I will have to seam the ends together.

I think they will turn out great!

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Coin Purses

From the yardage I wove last week, I am going to be making coin purses. I found some clasps online  and bought 20. I wasn't sure how they were going to turn out, so I didn't want to over buy and end up with a bunch of coin purse clasps I couldn't sell. But now that I've cut up my yardage (surprisingly a lot easier to do than I thought), I have one fully completed coin purse and by the end of today I hope to have 10 made. Production at its finest!

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Stuffed animals

Another product I'm making for the craft sale are some stuffed animals. These are made of boiled wool. This basically means that I take something that is knit with 100% wool, stick it in the washing machine in a super hot cycle and shrink the bejesus out of it. Something probably everyone's mothers told them never to do. I've been shrinking sweaters and cutting them up and making a variety of animals - elephants, alligators, giraffe/llama/brachiosaurus (depending on your own specific wants), whales, lions and rhinos. They're coming together quite nicely.

Yardage

One of my classes is organizing a craft sale. This will help us to learn about the benefits of productions lines and not just making one of a kind items. Originally, I wanted to just do woven items, because that's what I enjoy the most. But we are supposed to focus on different price points, and woven items tend to be on the higher end of the spectrum. 

But I'm still weaving of course! My first production line on the loom in class was to weave yardage, and hopefully make coin purses out of them. I'm using a 50/50 wool/silk blend. It's quite luscious. I might have gone a bit overboard with the type of yarn I used, but they will be wonderful. I also overestimated the size of the pieces I would need, so instead of the 20 coin purses I plan to make, I could actually make closer to 80 if I so choose. But I only have 20 clasps, so at least that will limit me.