Garden Path

Welcome to my record of old projects! Scroll down to go back in time.

I messed up cutting the outer and liner for this shoe I wound up making 4 identical pairs. Thankfully I have a lot of friends with similar sized feet. Vintage 1970s pattern.

Sake! Or whatever the word is for unfiltered homebrew sake. I learned a lot about domesticated mold.

Dandelion wine. Finally a project so successful I do it every year (this was year 2).

1500s Italian style chemise for reenactment costume. Still sitting in my unfinished bin, though I think the collar gathers were successful. Photos of the trim (handwoven band) are around here somewhere. Made out of one(1) recycled linen curtain.

I finally learn how to tie on a tapestry weaving properly and I use this knowledge to make a piece with experimental bike-tire-tube pile that fell apart. Figures.

Some decent weaves for trim and lacing.

Weird friendship bracelet style macrame revival. Kinda crappy. Some people make bands and straps this way, but it's not as strong as warp facing weaving.

Weaving toy. Not bad, but I'm still not tying on the edges right.

Repaired handlebar grips.

Bag.

Idk I don't know if I like them. Too bulky for keychains. Mostly just a color test of the recycled leather I have.

My crazy "quarantine" project (I never did get to stop working in person lol) learned to crochet and made a whole hooded sweater. Recycled yarn again.

Miso.

Is this a project? It feels weird when you buy all the elements. Anyway this is a secondhand keyboard for a car computer I embellished with colored caps. Yay mechanical switches.

Welcome to 2019. I felted this on a duct tape last. It's got a cloth outer and a leather sole, and I still wear them every winter. Successful project. Should make more.

Some still incredibly bad weavings (tapestry) and one decent weaving (band woven on an inkle loom). I didn't understand about how to start it properly. Inkle has different rules.

Some of my first wheel spins. Shockingly I'm still happy with that hat.

Got a (kit-built) spinning wheel. Made a thing that measures 1 yard per loop and stretches the spun and plied yarn to block it.

Rosehips to dry into beads.

An attempt to process milkweed stems into fiber. It was annoying and stupid enough to make me decide to grow flax instead (finessed by centuries of humans into being better designed for fiber processing) but not enough to lose interest in plant fiber entirely.

A second draft on the iron age winter boots. Better leather, better skills (same sewn wool blanket socks for inner).

A mitten! I like the design and color scheme. Not sure if I never finished the second one or eventually lost the second one. This one's stashed in a drawer to pattern when I remake it with yarn I like better.

Tudor style flat cap for a reenactment costume. Handknit hand dyed.

Shawl. Unlike my usual trash recycling ways, I spun the wool intending it to be this project from the beginning.

Hats. Gave these ones away to people I don't know any more.

Some "winter boots" copied from an ice age original. The leather was recycled (curb couch!) but very bad quality, basically leather dust held together by glue.

All lace mistakes are educational.

Wool skirt! More recycled rug yarn.

A "great wheel" style spinning wheel made out of an old bike wheel. Unfortunately I don't have a more finished picture, (there's no documentation of the batts head or spindle) I'm actually proud of this build. You see these being operated poorly at ren faires and other historical events all the time. Here's someone spinning medium fast and medium skilled on a properly antique not made from trash one: (youtube). You can go much faster than that if you get skilled...

A new sock! Yak wool from nepal. Still have this one.

Still a quite bad weaving. This is what happens when your warp is too thin and your tension is bad.

One of my very first weavings, a recreation of a grade school project. It's... Bad. It would take me several more tries to even figure out what I was doing wrong.

Beret! I think I accidentally gave this one away... I think its Drops Deluxe on ravelry.

Much obliged to New Pathways for Sock Knitters (check the increases on the arch, they're all there) that I never learned socks a stupid way, and I never have to memorize a rote pattern either. This is recycled rug yarn! Very tough very warm.

I fixed this spindle! Something something nothing is ever really garbage (until it is).

Another lost test piece.

I regret this image in this page layout being in an upright orientation. Probably not going to recrop it or change the page layout though. Sacred heart motif but it's a strawberry.

I lost this one before I could finish it. I wish I hadn't!

Better bolder stitches. Doing a project for a second time is always a better end product if I can tolerate it. Recycled fabric (it came from the garbage)

More standardized stitches. It turns out these are embroidery's strength. Also color scheme is important go figure?

one of my first freeform embroideries with scraps. A view of lake Monona. Eventually abandoned.

First attempts at freeform embroidery on scraps...

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