Posted by Peg in South Carolina
I love to spin. I do not get a lot of chances to do it, but when I can, I do. I rarely spin for 
Spinning this way has never bothered me. Spinning, for me, is simply an indulgence.
A piece in the latest Spin-off magazine* about using small amounts of fiber in hand knitting projects got me started thinking. What about modular knitting? I could design a modular knit afghan, not unlike the one I knit for our grandson when he was born.
And then I thought about weaving a patchwork afghan. But when I thought about sewing the pieces together, I balked. So I thought about weaving long strips. Still didn’t like the idea of sewing strips together.
So, what about putting on a warp with narrow or broad stripes of the different handspun yarn and then weaving with those to create small or large checks. And what about doing it double width. Voila. The germ of an idea finally arrived.
*The essay is by Ingrid Brundin and is called “Making Shells—Using up small bits of handspun with modular knitting.”
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Reflections on the Baby Blanket
“Thinking about Afghan from Handspun” was written by Margaret Carpenter for Talking about Weaving and was originally posted on June 22, 2010. ©2010 Margaret Carpenter aka Peg in South Carolina.
4 comments:
I think that is a great germ of an idea!
I have a Creative Knitting magazine a few years old of course that has a modular afghan with no stitching required. If your interested in knitting one I'll dig it up for you. The weaving idea sounds great and you can use all the bits in both warp and weft.
Interesting. I just bought some weaving cards and was thinking of using my handspun and other scraps on that.
Thank you for your encouragement, Delighted Hands! Deep End, the afghan I knit for our grandson was one with no seams. When I was done I was done! I love that! Spinning Out of Control, what are weaving cards?
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