tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23746489387714592452024-03-05T03:13:32.529-05:00knitsarinaLife as a Journey, not a DestinationJayahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07036842744537641157noreply@blogger.comBlogger510125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2374648938771459245.post-35760867120638834152018-03-14T17:21:00.000-04:002018-03-14T17:21:33.221-04:00More spinning, weavi, some knitting<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
I have been in a spinning mood. I am winding a warp for the floor loom but mostly I've been spinning.<br />
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I'll start with the knitting as it is easier. I finished the red fingerless mitts with some leftover yarn. They only needed the thumbs. The thumbs are fat because the yarn is thicker but when I wear them, they are OK.<br />
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I also started these flip-top fingerless mittens in India but they've been languishing. I really don't like knitting mittens. Anyway they are done. They match the practice scarf I did on the floor loom. The yarn for the mittens is the weft although I used a little of the warp when I ran out of yarn. You can see that in the top of the left mitten.</div>
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My spindle spun thick yarn is plied. I had to hand wind it onto the bobbin for the last few yards as it wouldn't wind on because the bobbin was so full. But I didn't want to make a skein for a few yards. So I persevered and managed to finish it. This is lac and cochineal dyed roving from Handspun by Stefania. I got it some years ago at Rhinebeck.<br />
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I also finished the little Navajo rug. It looks crooked because I let the sides draw in too much so the fell line (where the weaving ends) got tilted. I filled it in with black but as a result, the rug looks crooked. I am pretty pleased with it.<br />
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I have also finished spinning an Onyx-to-Crimson gradient from Fiber Optic. But all you see is black on the bobbin so I will post pictures after it is plied.<br />
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I also plied and semi-finished a small cotton sample skein on the charkha. One is supposed to boil cotton in an alkaline bath to finish it. I didn't want to do that for a small skein so I will spin some more and finish it all. I just soaked this in a warm water bath. It is a bit thick and thin but seems to be yarn.<br />
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I spent some time pondering how to ply this. There is a built-in lazy kate on the Bosworth charkha but the angle from that to the spindle is a bit weird. Maybe I will use that another time when I have more confidence. I ended up winding a 2-ply plying 'ball' on a soft foam core left over from some yarn. I could have put this on my lazy kate but I decided to just let it roll around on the floor. It worked well although there is too much plying twist in the yarn.<br />
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That is what I've been up to. Next up is warping the floor loom and plying the gradient. Plus I am going to swatch for a sweater, and am spinning more cotton and spindling the purple cashmere/silk. I will finish up the travel next week.</div>
Jayahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07036842744537641157noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2374648938771459245.post-22799311537907296022018-02-20T17:20:00.000-05:002018-02-20T17:20:38.533-05:00Spindle love<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
I was talking to someone about pulling out my spindles and I finally did on Friday. I took a Trindle to the spinning guild meeting and fell in love with spindling all over again.<br />
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On Saturday, I finished up the doubleweave sampler from last November's class. I'll post a picture of it when I pull it out again to sew the ends and finish it. I wove 1" tubes across the width alternating the colors. I am going to make it into a circular needle case.<br />
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But back to spindles. That session on Friday night made me continue to spin a bit every day. I also took out my tiny spindles because I won a tiny Bee Jenkins at their New Year's Bee drawings. It weighs 2 g and I have to show you a photo in context. You can see it <a href="https://yarntools.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/B46-Burmese-Rosewood-2gr.jpg" target="_blank">here</a> at their site. I spun a little on it using the sample fiber that came with it to cushion it. It is a Pygora/merino blend and is absolutely gorgeous. Of course the little spindle backspins a lot so it is slow going to spin on it.<br />
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But I got the Kuchulu and my 3D printed Snyder Spindles Destiny Turkish and got back to spinning the cashmere/silk from Corgi Hill Farms that was my Tour de Fleece spinning from 2015. I was spinning it on a Nano Trindle and the cop is all messed up. That made me put it in time out. And I decided to spin it on the Turkish spindles instead.<br />
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First I struggled with getting a self-leader on the Destiny,. It has 4 arms and they were all flailing about as I tried to spin the leader. I generally do some variation on this method by Wanda Jenkins.<br />
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So I started spinning a leader on my Finch Turkish with some discarded yarn I found in the spindle box. I must have been teaching someone to spin because it was all thick and thin with varying amounts of twist. I spun it and plied it but I didn't like putting it on the Destiny. So I went back to my usual method and with a little patience managed to get it started. But I don't like spinning cashmere/silk on it. The wooden shaft has enough grab that it snags the yarn. But it is a lovely spindle and I should spin something on it.<br />
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There they are. The Kuchulu on the right and the Destiny on the left. Yes, that is a whole lotta purple.<br />
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And here is the thick yarn on my Trindle with the heaviest arms I own. This shaft is only set up for 3 arms but I could switch to another one which has 6 holes in the neoprene ball and get a heavier spin. But this is doing fine, in fact it is easier than the heavier spindles I was using. I am also winding the cops off as soon as I am done so they don't get all messed up. There is a big plying ball that is growing day by day as I wind off from the Forester and the 3D printed top whorl Snyder Spindle. I have a paper towel roll with more singles that I wound off my Bosworth before donating it to a new spinner. So each cop I spin on this one has a matching second ply coming off already spun yarn. That is all that is left of 8 oz so it should be ready for plying soon.<br />
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I am also making progress on the Onyx to Crimson gradient but it is very boring taking photos of it. It is at the point where the red is almost black, just before the all black. It is hard to even see on the bobbin. I had to resort to putting a spinning cloth on my lap so I could see what I was spinning.<br />
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The Navajo rug is almost done. Someone was getting rid of some unwanted straight needles at the guild meeting and I snagged 2 as shed sticks. Mine went from really fat to pretty skinny and these two fit nicely in between. But it is almost time to remove the two heddles and work on picking up every other strand. There is only 1" left on top and it is already difficult to get sheds. I might try one or two picks more with the heddles before I remove them. </div>
Jayahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07036842744537641157noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2374648938771459245.post-45621230893598416182018-02-13T10:50:00.001-05:002018-02-13T10:50:35.731-05:00Montenegro<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
After Croatia, we sailed to the port of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kotor" target="_blank">Kotor</a> in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montenegro" target="_blank">Montenegro</a>. Montenegro is a mountainous country with two main sources of revenue, both based on tourism. The first is skiing in the northern parts and the second is cruising in the southern part, along with hiking and other outdoor activities. The natives of Montenegro are among the world's tallest people, on average, apparently.<br />
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One interesting tidbit had to do with their memories of Yugoslavia. In Croatia, people seem generally happy with the current capitalist economy. In Yugoslavia, apparently the government handed out apartments to people in the right jobs. So many of the educated had their own apartments. Real estate is expensive in these places because the area is hilly and there is limited land for building. Those who had apartments are reasonably wealthy as a result. Others, who did not, are finding themselves locked out of the real estate market. Our guide in Croatia told us this matter-of-factly and said, in general, that Croatians are happier now. The Yugoslav government did not invest a lot in Croatia, I believe.<br />
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On the other hand, in Montenegro, our guide told us the same thing with respect to the real estate. But she was wistful for the old days and said that most Montenegro citizens preferred the Yugoslavian state. Now, of course, both of these are single data points but I thought the difference in perspective was interesting.<br />
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Anyway, Kotor was interesting to me because it was the first time we had to be ferried via lifeboat to the shore. The port is small, there were multiple cruise ships, and therefore we had no berth to dock. I love watching the minutiae of the ship operations. I always watched the undocking and docking if I could. This time we had a lifeboat just under our balcony and so I had a nice view of how they were lowered and then raised, before we left. The one under my balcony was the first one out and the last one in so I had ample time to hang out over the railing and watch.<br />
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Kotor is a tiny place, relatively speaking. This was our first view of the town. It is an old walled town. We had chosen to take a trip up into the mountains via a <a href="http://www.dangerousroads.org/eastern-europe/montenegro/2286-old-road-from-cetinje-to-kotor.html" target="_blank">scenic Serpentine drive with 25 switchbacks</a> and then a visit to the house of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikola_I_Petrovi%C4%87-Njego%C5%A1" target="_blank">only king of Montenegro</a>. We planned to explore the town on our own when we got back.<br />
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As we climbed higher and higher into the mountains, the views got better and better. This is the bay of Kotor from various heights. These were all taken from a bus so there are some reflections.<br />
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After the drive, we had lunch at a little inn in a village. We were now higher up in the mountains and it was definitely a little on the cool side.<br />
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Roses at the inn.<br />
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We passed the house where he was born.<br />
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<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_Nikola%27s_Palace" target="_blank">The royal palace</a> is really a large house with many adjacent buildings - churches, tombs, etc. The interesting thing about it is that it is completely untouched since the kingdom ended peacefully after World War I. The king had many daughters and they were all married in to various royal families in Europe so he was well connected. The furnishings are really beautiful and the house is well preserved but photographs were not allowed.<br />
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I did take a photo of this dog who was having a lovely lazy day in the sun.<br />
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After the palace, we drove back to Kotor via a more modern highway. We still got some lovely views.<br />
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Here's an example of a switchback.<br />
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And a 'Where's Waldo' type of photo. Can you spot the fortress?<br />
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More carving on the gate.<br />
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The clock tower. Kotor is known for its cats and I saw a lot of them in town. But none of them would pose for their portraits.<br />
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It is a pretty little quaint town. This building below is now a posh hotel, apparently. But it used to be a residence of the royal family. They were a Grand Duchy before they were a Kingdom.<br />
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Lovely architecture.<br />
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There are a number of churches in town.<br />
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With icons and beautiful chandeliers.<br />
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After wandering through the town, we headed back to the ship.<br />
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The rest of our trip was in Greece. We went to Corfu, then to Olympia before disembarking in Piraeus and spending 4 days in Athens on our own. I may have to split some of those days into multiple posts as there is so much to see in Greece.<br />
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Jayahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07036842744537641157noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2374648938771459245.post-58083237019704652072018-02-12T12:37:00.000-05:002018-02-12T12:37:45.318-05:00New fiber skills<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
I went to India for 3 weeks to mostly visit family although we did a couple of days of sightseeing also. More on the sightseeing later.<br />
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First of all, the scarves and towels I made were received very favorably. I was surprised to some extent because knitted gifts were received well by some but not with this level of enthusiasm. I think it is due to the fact that there is limited use for knitted items in hot Chennai.<br />
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I generally just visit when I go to India. I don't have a long shopping list any more. I used to, because everything was not available here. But now I can get most things here. I wanted to buy some stretchy sari blouses, a never-ending quest. I want colors I can wear with my classic Kanchipuram silk saris so I want the traditional colors. Well, they never have them. They have more 'exotic' colors. That is great when I want to match a new sari but not so great when I want ones that will go with a variety of the saris I already own. So each time I buy one or two that I think will match. This time I got a dark blue. I bought an orange to match a new sari and a few for my sister.<br />
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I also used to buy a Christmas gift for my hair stylist. She is more of a friend than a hair stylist as I have been going there for more than 30 years. But these days, I make her a gift so there is no need to buy. I buy a gift for her when I travel outside India but I've already bought her a lot of the things that I think are nice gifts from India.<br />
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This time I had cotton punis on my shopping list as a major item. I spent a whole morning googling and calling stores where I thought they would have them. No one in Chennai had them or even seemed to know what they were. Then a Ravelry friend from Kolkata told me she got them from a local seller who travels to Wardha in the state of Maharashtra to buy them. The <a href="http://www.gandhiashramsevagram.org/" target="_blank">Gandhi Sevagram Ashram</a> there makes and sells them. But there is no online shop. However, she generously sent me some by courier. What a lovely gift!<br />
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They come in 100 g bundles wrapped in newspaper.<br />
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After my return, I started spinning cotton on my new-to-me Bosworth charkha. I bought this last summer from another Raveler. She included some easy-to-spin colored cotton sliver so I started with that. That is my first new skill. It is interesting. I have thread that varies from very fine to not-so-fine and I need to decide what degree I want and then produce it consistently. I've spun 1 spindle full.<br />
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I also started working on the Navajo rug I started in the class at Rhinebeck. Navajo weaving is very different from tapestry weaving, which it resembles. The technique interlaces the weft threads every other row so the rug is nice and tightly woven. This took me a bit of time to master. Fortunately, I had video taped the instructor when she demonstrated key techniques. Going back and watching that, trying it out, watching again, watching other Navajo weavers weave, etc. finally made it click. I am doing pretty well given I am designing on the fly as the Navajos do. It means I have to backtrack some times and of course, I have to unweave when I make a mistake - for example, I didn't cover a warp thread for 2-3 rows and had to go back.<br />
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I have finished the design of the blocks and done a stripe to delineate it from the next design. I am not making this symmetric as I don't want to have to manage the height of each piece. The warp has to be completely woven and it is tightly packed in. I am just going to do another pattern on the other side and end with stripes.<br />
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There are two sheds. The top heddle is the dowel on the top that is threaded through every other warp thread. Then there is the pull heddle that is hanging below it. On every pick, you thread something through one of the two sheds and then that holds the shed open to do the weave. I was using a pick up stick but now that is too wide so I am using a fat knitting needle. I will go down to a smaller one in a bit and then eventually one has to remove both dowels and weave using a needle. I am beating with a metal hair pick, some dog combs, and occasionally I put the pickups stick in and press down with it to make sure I have a horizontal edge.<br />
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On the non-new skill area, I knitted a hat and undid and reknit it when I was in India. I wanted to make a pair of fingerless mitts to match but I ran out of yarn. I undid the hat and ripped out an inch worth of yarn and reknit the crown. But that still wasn't enough for the thumbs. I found some red yarn, slightly thicker, and I will finish the mitts with that.<br />
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Before I cut an inch off the length.<br />
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After the re-knitting.<br />
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I also started another pair of fingerless mitts. They are still in progress and I don't have a photo.<br />
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I plied the red yarn I spun before I left. This was the last of my Tour de Fleece projects from last year. I am very happy with the yarn. That is the bobbin of plied yarn on top. I am now spinning the gradient on the bottom. I will weave a shawl with the two together after spinning. I have 560 yds of the solid red - it was 8 oz of fiber. I have 8 oz of gradient. Right now I am thinking of the solid red for the warp and the gradient for the weft. I'll spin each gradient braid separately and ply them together.<br />
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As you remember, the solid red was actually spun by holding a cool red and a warm red together. I am quite pleased at the result. It has a lot of liveliness in color and the yarn is very bouncy. One braid was Polwarth/silk and the other was superwash merino/alpaca/nylon/Tussah. I was afraid about how it would react when I finished it. I was gentle and I will be gentle when I finish the weaving. I don't want differential shrinkage where the non-superwash wool shrinks and the rest doesn't. The gradients are merino/silk so will behave like the Polwarth/silk. Note to Self: read the fiber content before you put fibers together.<br />
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I also received some lovely cotton yarn for weaving from another Raveler friend in Chennai.<br />
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There are about 250 g of each color so 1 kg in total (2.2 lbs)<br />
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She and I went to <a href="https://shuttlesandneedles.com/" target="_blank">Shuttles and Needles</a> in Chennai, which is a fabulous store. They are dealers for Ashford and Saori and have looms set up to weave and spinning wheels and spindles as well as knitting supplies. I spun a little on one of the Ashford spindles when I was there and bought one with some fiber for my sister-in-law who was fascinated by both my weaving and my search for punis. Unfortunately, I only went there two days before I left so she had 1 day worth of teaching. Now we are trying it using WhatsApp.<br />
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I also boiled the marigold flowers I had been freezing over the summer. I simmered the flowers for 1 hour on day. Let it cool and then simmered again for another hour the next day. Strained out the flowers on the third day. I put a white skein into it and simmered for 30 mins and let the yarn cool in the dye pot overnight. There was still dye left so I added two more skeins to over dye them. I didn't mordant as the recommendation in <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Wild-Color-Revised-Updated-Complete/dp/0823058794" target="_blank">Jenny Dean's <i>Wild Color</i></a> was to use alum sulfate on protein fibers and I only had alum acetate. I have the original edition.<br />
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I think the color would have been more intense if I had used a mordant. But I am happy with the results. There was more dye in the pot but I discarded it as I didn't have any other fiber that was ready to dye.<br />
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This was the pure white skein. The next two were overdyed and are slightly muted from the originals, which I thought were too bright.<br />
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And that is it. I am really enjoying all this. I have my next weave planned but will not start till the Navajo rug is done. It is going to use up a bunch of leftover yarns.<br />
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Jayahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07036842744537641157noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2374648938771459245.post-22506349134734882742018-02-11T18:11:00.001-05:002018-02-11T18:11:35.717-05:00Dubrovnik and Mostar<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
A quick note before the actual post: I actually started this in January before I left for India. My expectation was that I'd be able to write the rest of the posts on my trip there. However, I found that I really couldn't write very well on my iPad. The Blogger site wouldn't scroll on the iPad. So my apologies for the long silence. I expect to finish this series this week and go on to what I saw in India.<br />
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Our next stop was Dubrovnik. I really wanted to see Dubrovnik but one of the other tours available was to Bosnia-Herzegovina to see the Old Bridge at Mostar. The bridge is called the <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stari_Most" target="_blank">Stari Most</a> and it was destroyed during the Balkan wars. However, it has been rebuilt and is now a UNESCO World Heritage Site. I also wanted to see some of the countryside in the region. So we left the ship early on a 3 hour one-way trip to Mostar. Plus there were 3 cruise ships in port and I expected Dubrovnik to be completely packed with people during the day.<br />
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We were berthed outside the main port under this beautiful bridge.<br />
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Isn't that gorgeous?<br />
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We boarded a little van because there were only a few of us going to Mostar.<br />
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We drove along Croatia's beautiful coast. It is studded with islands and there are both government and private ferries going back and forth. Many of them are uninhabited so people go there for the day. In the photo above you can see oyster beds (I think) in the water.<br />
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But right around the corner is a building that has not been rebuilt. Our guide said that some people who left during the war haven't come back. Or, if they have, they can't afford to rebuild so there are many buildings like this.<br />
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But a lot of other areas have been rebuilt and we walked through construction as well as rebuilt areas.<br />
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We walked first to a Turkish home that has been maintained in its original condition as a museum. This area was ruled by the Ottoman Turks for a long time and the root cause of the war was the religious differences between the Roman Catholics (Croats), the Serbian Orthodox Christians (Serbs) and the Muslims (Bosnians).<br />
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The patio of the Turkish house had a lovely fountain.<br />
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The kitchen is off to the left of this photo with the main house to the right. The kitchen was separate to keep heat away from the house as well cooking odors.<br />
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There is a lovely balcony above. Most of the living areas were on the upper floor.<br />
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That is the kitchen.<br />
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One of the downstairs rooms with carpets on the floor.<br />
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Out in the deck area, there was a loom.<br />
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And a skein winder (or maybe a charkha type spinning wheel) with some balls of yarn. We weren't allowed to touch anything and the guide wasn't very knowledgeable about fiber crafts so I didn't get a good look at the wheel to see whether it actually was a wheel or not.<br />
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A bedroom.<br />
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The living room had gorgeous views of the river.<br />
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Looking down at the patio from the deck. You can see the crowd. There were 4 or 5 groups there to see the house and only a few people could go upstairs as the rooms were small. So we had to wait in the patio and then go up, look around, and come back down a really narrow staircase without taking too much time. That allowed the next group to go up.<br />
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Some of the interior photos of the house.<br />
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Old photos on the walls.<br />
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A light fixture.<br />
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Some of the objects on the walls.<br />
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A lovely little table.<br />
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We then walked to a mosque and took a quick look inside. The view of the bridge is very good from this mosque.<br />
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A couple of views of the inside of the mosque.<br />
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Our first view of the famous Stari Most.<br />
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Looking down river from the mosque.<br />
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The other side of the river. There were some churches there. The river was apparently a delineation line between the Christians and the Muslims, which is why the bridge was destroyed. Our guide said that many families were ripped apart as so many had married into other religions. But during the war, it didn't matter. It was a chilling reminder of how much pain and death is caused by religion and history.<br />
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Looking up at the mosque.<br />
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A reflection of a mosque in the river.</div>
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Looking at our side of the river.<br />
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From the mosque, we walked through some crowded streets to the bridge. This the bridge. It was really crowded.<br />
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Then we had some time to shop. I wasn't interested so I photographed cats, and buildings.<br />
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The town is very hilly.<br />
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A few more buildings.<br />
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We then went back to our van and started driving back to the ship. On the way we stopped at a small village where we climbed to the top of a tower. It was a good way to stretch one's legs. The tower was ruined but interesting because it had lovely views.<br />
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Views from the tower.<br />
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One view of the buildings at the base of the tower.<br />
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Some photos on the way up.<br />
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Looking down on the other side.<br />
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We then drove back to the ship. The two of us decided to go into <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dubrovnik" target="_blank">Dubrovnik</a> because the ship wasn't sailing till 10 pm. The following are photos of the walled town of Dubrovnik after dark. People go into the old town for dinner so the streets are filled with people. But I have no idea what many of the buildings are.<br />
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This is one of the gates to the old town. There is a bridge leading up to it. The bus from our ship dropped us off at the entrance to the bridge. Once you cross the bridge, you have to down some stairs and then out into the old town.<br />
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Part of the wall surrounding the old town. Dubrovnik was under siege during the war and many people died defending it.<br />
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There are two fountains in Dubrovnik. This is the Big Onofrio's fountain which still works. The Wikipedia article linked earlier has a lot about the history and about the engineer who built the aqueducts and fountains.<br />
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The water spouts are beautifully carved.<br />
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The streets are lined with white marble and it had rained earlier. They were slippery but reflected the light beautifully.<br />
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Al fresco dining in some of the alleys and streets and plazas.<br />
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This is where I am ignorant. This is one of the churches but i don't remember which one. Google tells me it is St. Blaise's church.<br />
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The clock tower.<br />
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Next to it is this lovely building, which I believe is one of the palaces. There is a museum inside which had a memorial to the people who died defending Dubrovnik.<br />
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This is the Little Onofrio's fountain.<br />
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This is the facade of the Cathedral (thank you Google!)<br />
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We climbed up one of the walls, to the point where it was lit and populated. This is a view of the street below from a vantage point up there.<br />
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We spent about an hour wandering around Dubrovnik and then caught the bus back to the ship. Our fellow travelers told us that it had rained during the day, it was packed with tourists, and that our night visit was probably much more pleasant. However, we missed the guided tour. This is part of the world where the Game of Thrones is filmed so there are a LOT of tourists.<br />
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Our next stop is Montenegro.</div>
Jayahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07036842744537641157noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2374648938771459245.post-55109577338504013742018-01-02T15:10:00.002-05:002018-01-02T15:10:42.168-05:00Split, Croatia<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
After leaving Venice, the ship sailed to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Split,_Croatia" target="_blank">Split </a>in Croatia. The main reason we selected this cruise was that it was in an area we had not explored before and it is much easier getting to these places by sea rather than road.<br />
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Split is a historic town, named after a type of broom that is native to the area. It is home to ther ruins of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diocletian%27s_Palace" target="_blank">Diocletian's palace</a>. We decided not to stay in town and had booked a hiking trip to <a href="http://www.np-krka.hr/en/" target="_blank">Krka falls</a>.<br />
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First, a sunrise over the Adriatic.<br />
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A Roman aqueduct with greenhouses below.<br />
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It was cloudy with bits of sun as we started. The drive was beautiful but most of my photos have a reflection from the interior of the bus.<br />
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These two are slightly overexposed photos of the river as we climbed to the falls.<br />
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We were dropped off the bus and walked past this pretty spot to the little village and the boardwalk that goes to the falls.<br />
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A map of the area.<br />
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There is a little reconstructed village at the top of the boardwalk. A water driven mill is an interesting place to visit. The other buildings have been turned into a cafe and tourist shop and other amenities. But they've kept the place looking untouched. The modern restrooms are in a hollow that you walk down to so they are out of sight.<br />
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A little fake donkey to show how people traversed these hills in the past.<br />
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There are many waterfalls here. This is the one near the mill. You can see some other small ones in the reflection photos above.<br />
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After walking through the mill, we went to a lookout spot where we could see some of the falls.<br />
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Looking out below the falls.<br />
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We set off on the boardwalk. It was supposed to be one-way. You go out and around to the bridge with the best view and then return. In the process, you go down a number of steps and then have to come up a steeper flight at the end. But there were people who circumvented this process. So we had to contend with crowding on the narrow boardwalk and people going both ways on the steps.<br />
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Crossing this bridge is the first step.<br />
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Walking past calm, shady, serene spots.<br />
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Looking up at the canopy of trees with the sun shining through them.<br />
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Looking down to see the canopy reflected in the water.<br />
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Past many little falls. The river is a braided stream here, with many little rivulets that wax and wane as the water level increases and decreases. There are times in the spring when the boardwalk is flooded.<br />
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There were wildflowers in bloom.<br />
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At one view point, you can see the little village on the other side with the falls in between.<br />
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Finally, one ends up on a bridge with a spectacular view of the main falls.<br />
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After crossing the bridge, one winds one'e way up a flight of stairs with more view points to look at the falls from different angles.<br />
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Along the way, we found this.<br />
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A final couple of views of the river as we start our journey back to Split. This was a beautiful location and I loved how calm it was even with lots of people around.<br />
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I captured a few more photos from the bus to show the landscape around. It was mountainous but also very populated.<br />
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We came back to the Adriatic in the distance with Split sprawled across the hills leading to it.<br />
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The clouds had turned into rain clouds and it was spitting water as we came back to Split. However, we didn't hang around on the ship. We headed into town to see the ruins.<br />
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This is the Silver Gate. The other gates are Gold and Bronze and one more which I don't remember. This is the most striking one. There are shops all along the outside.<br />
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We didn't climb the tower. It was extremely windy and raining a bit so we were just walking around trying not to slip on the marble tiles and absorbing the ambiance of the place. It isn't very big but there is a lot to see.<br />
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At this point, the wind was really bad and while it wasn't raining hard, it was blowing sideways into us. Looking out from the ruins to a modern street.<br />
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Underneath the ruins, there is a crypt and a spot where they put garbage. This room is a treasure trove for archeologists. The rest of the underground space is devoted to shops and it was crowded due to the rain and wind outside.<br />
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This is the Bronze gate. It is between two shops. We exited through it.<br />
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The street outside is right on the water and lined with palm trees. It would have been a nice spot to linger had the weather cooperated.<br />
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Looking out at the harbor and the ships in it. The Dalmatian coast has a lot of islands and there is a government ferry service that goes to the various islands. There are also speed boats that one can take to a specific island. Some are inhabited and others are not.<br />
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We headed back to the ship which was just to the left of that last photo and got ready for the next day which was going to be a long one.<br />
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I'm interrupting the travelogue for a quick fiber update.<br />
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I started knitting the <a href="https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/turn-about-wrap" target="_blank">Turn About Wrap</a> with 4 natural colored alpaca yarns my daughter brought back from Peru. It has been going quite fast so far. If the colors are numbered 1-4 from white to dark brown, I decided to do the center triangles in #1 (white) and #3 (the second darkest brown). Now I am doing the two outer triangles in #2 (lightest brown) and #4 (darkest brown). It looks like chocolate to me!<br />
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The colors are not very good in this photo but you can see one of the outer triangles on the right if you look carefully. The colors in the first photo are truer.<br />
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I also went back to spinning the red yarn I was working on during the Tour de Fleece. It is all done now. Both sets of singles are completed and I will be plying soon.<br />
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Photo from July showing the two braids. The warm one is on the left and the cool one on the right.<br />
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First bobbin.<br />
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Second bobbin almost completed. It is now done. The remaining fiber is visible in the bottom. The warm red is on top and the cool red below. </div>
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The first day of our cruise was still in Venice. Since we had already seen what we wanted to see, we had booked a trip to Padua.<br />
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I got this lovely reflection in a river on the way to Padua.<br />
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We were dropped off at this lovely park, the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prato_della_Valle" target="_blank">Prato Della Valle</a>, with a water moat around it. More reflections. I loved the architecture in Padua so there will be lots of buildings in this post. There are a number of statues of famous people (some not so famous) from Padua or who were associated with Padua. I thought it was circular but it is oval and it is called the square in the center of town.<br />
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Paths criss-cross the center garden.<br />
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From the park we walked to the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basilica_of_Saint_Anthony_of_Padua" target="_blank">Basilica of St. Anthony</a>.<br />
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Another gorgeous reflection on the way.<br />
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That is the Basilica. Our first view of it. There is a better picture to follow from the other side.<br />
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This is the St. Anthony to whom Catholics pray when they can't find something. It is a very large Basilica. I didn't take photos inside as it was both dark and prohibited. The altar of the church is by Donatello. Yes, I know he was a Ninja Turtle. But he was a famous Italian sculptor before that.<br />
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The entrance.<br />
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This is a statue of General Gattamelata, by Donatello. It is in the square outside the Basilica. It was one of the first life-size statues cast in bronze.<br />
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This is the 'better' photo of the Basilica. As you can see, the light wasn't in the right place so I got one of my photos with the sun's glow behind the object. No solar flare as it was a cloudy day. But it gives you the idea of how big the Basilica is. After visiting the church, we walked to the market. I took this even though the light wasn't great, to show how narrow the streets are.<br />
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The market is outside. The building is used for meetings.<br />
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I was intrigued by the ceiling in the first floor gallery and tried to go up but was stopped and asked which group I was with and where my pass was. So this is all one can see.<br />
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The ground (first) floor of the building has stalls but I didn't go inside. I was peeved at not being allowed up just to look at the ceiling!<br />
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This is the entrance to one of the city government buildings. When you look inside the archway, this is what you see.<br />
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Our meeting point was outside the city government building so we hung out there for a few minutes. A mime was having fun. He'd move when people around him weren't looking but freeze when they looked at him.<br />
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Looking around at buildings in the area.<br />
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Just behind the mime is the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pedrocchi_Caf%C3%A9" target="_blank">Cafe Pedrocch</a>i. It is where revolutionary Paduans met to plot overthrowing the monarchy. There are three rooms - a red room, a white room, and a green room. The green room is where you can sit for free so the waiters don't bother even noticing you are there. The other rooms are where you sit if you want to order. Because of its historic significance, it is open to the public. You can walk through it at any time. I did but felt odd taking photos so I didn't.<br />
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That building covered up by fabric and scaffolding on the right is the cafe. Local police in front of the cafe made a change to having just the buildings in the photo.<br />
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It wasn't a very long trip because we were sailing mid-afternoon. One of the things that annoys me about cruises is that while they say that they will leave you behind if you are not on board by a specified time, they end up waiting for tardy people. That happened that afternoon. We waited for a couple who had gone into Venice. <i>sigh</i><br />
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As a result, I didn't have my camera with me when the ship sailed. I was walking around exploring the ship and noticed we were moving. So I ran up to the top deck and enjoyed the cruise through the laguna and seeing St. Mark's Square, San Giorgio Maggiore and other sights from the perspective of the laguna. But no photos.</div>
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The ship was escorted by a tug that was secured to the ship by cables. One of the other passengers said this was to increase employment because usually, when the ship sailed, the pilot was onboard and all we had was the small pilot boat next to us to take him off. </div>
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I love watching how the ship operates. I hang out of the balcony watching how the lifeboats operate, how the shore crew act when the ship is leaving. They hang around doing nothing, chatting with each other for a long time. Then suddenly they uncoil the ropes that connect the ship to the dock, get in their vehicle(s) and drive off. I can't see whether the ship's crew signal them by hand or whether it is by phone or radio. I can't see what the ship's crew are doing at all.</div>
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I also try to watch the pilot get off. The pilot boat comes very close to the ship (it is tiny compared to the ship so it is interesting how close it gets), and then the pilot and another person (usually) jump from a door on the cruise ship onto the deck of the pilot boat. Then the boat zips off. </div>
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Jayahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07036842744537641157noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2374648938771459245.post-87684476469858655232017-12-26T12:19:00.001-05:002017-12-26T12:19:50.131-05:00More walking around Venice<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
We had started one of the guided walking tours on the first day, wandering around St. Mark's. So after lunch on the second day, we finished it by doing the first half.<br />
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This tour explores the area of San Marco. Here's <a href="https://www.ricksteves.com/watch-read-listen/audio/audio-tours/italy" target="_blank">the link</a> to the audio tours for Italy. We did the 4 Venice ones. We also did some from the book that aren't audio tours. This one is not an audio tour because I remember navigating via the tiny map in the book and the bigger map that we got from the hotel and the even-bigger folded one in the book.<br />
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Venice has most of the calles (streets) labeled but they are on plaques or stones in the walls of buildings and I couldn't find all of them. Plus they all look very similar and some of the turns are into very tiny alleyway entrances.<br />
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This is one of the sights. The street used to be an umbrella-maker's street. It made for a good landmark as we were navigating at other times. The street to the right of the umbrellas leads to St. Mark's Square.<br />
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This pharmacy has a countdown of the declining population of Venice.<br />
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That is the countdown clock.<br />
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This is the Rialto bridge staircase (leading to the apex) from the bottom. You can see the shops on either side better.<br />
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A nicer view of the Accademia bridge. On some of our vaporetto trips, we placed ourselves for better viewing.<br />
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Finally, we ended the day with a visit to the Salute church. It is dedicated to the plague. You pray to the Virgin Mary in the church to avoid the plague. Venice was plagued by the plague (<i>I couldn't resist, sorry!</i>) many, many times. Crowded living conditions, damp, and sewage filled canals were conducive to the spread of disease.<br />
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Our third day was a short one,. We had to get to the cruise ship in the afternoon so we spent the morning going to the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Giorgio_Maggiore_(church),_Venice" target="_blank">San Giorgio Maggiore church</a> across the laguna and that ended up being a great visit.<br />
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But first, a mix-up. Our vaporetto stop near the hotel didn't have a ticket booth. So I wanted to buy the ticket ahead of time to go to the cruise ship. Our passes would expire before we went to the ship so we needed two more tickets. I went to the ticket booth at San Marco Square and asked to buy two tickets. The woman asked me where I was going. The way she worded it and it being early morning, I said "San Giorgio Maggiore' and she sold me two tickets to go across the laguna and back. I didn't need those! Our passes would have worked. Darn! So anyway I bought the other two tickets i needed at one of the other booths.<br />
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In addition to reflections, I love backlit photos where the sun (or light) creates a glow. This is the church and bell tower from the vaporetto.</div>
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The facade of the church.<br />
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The organ. I also take a lot of photos of church organ pipes.<br />
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The church features two large paintings by Tintoretto.<br />
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The choir stalls were beautiful. I love church architecture.<br />
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One bonus was an art exhibit exploring people and diversity. The artist is <a href="http://moussemagazine.it/michelangelo-pistoletto-one-one-makes-three-basilica-di-san-giorgio-isola-di-san-giorgio-maggiore-venice-2017/" target="_blank">Michaelangelo Pistoletto</a> and the exhibit is called 'One and one makes three'. It featured mirrors, sculpture, murals, etc.<br />
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After going through the exhibit, we went to the bell tower. We wanted to go up one of the bell towers - this one or the one in St. Mark's Square. The one in the square always had a line so we decided to go up this one. The floor leading to the bell tower had the same sort of 3-D mosaic as in the Doge's Palace.<br />
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There is an elevator to the tower. No steps to climb except a few to get to the elevator.<br />
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The bells. They are rung automatically and I knew when they rang so we wouldn't be up there to be deafened by the sound.<br />
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Panoramic views across the laguna. That is St. Mark's square across the water. </div>
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Looking down closer, I noticed this very interesting glass block wall down below. <br />
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The cloisters associated with the church are also down there. That is the dome of he church.<br />
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After climbing down, we went to investigate the wall. It turned out to be associated with a <a href="https://www.designboom.com/art/pae-white-le-stanze-del-vetro-05-30-2017/" target="_blank">glass blowing studio</a> nearby and was not available to visit. So we just looked at it from outside the fence. By the way, in case you were wondering about the white arms on the building from yesterday's post, it was part of the Venice Biennale 2017 exhibit. This one might be too. I don't know. It was fun to try and look at it from different angles from outside a fence and a hedge.</div>
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Remember the raised walkways that are set up during Acqua Alta? This is what they look like. In most of the other places, they were stacked up with one being up-ended on top of another one. But outside San Giorgio Maggiore, they were set up as they would be during the flooding so I took a picture. </div>
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Another one of my reflection photos.<br />
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After we got back from San Giorgio Maggiore, we went on the last walking tour. This one went from the other side of the Rialto bridge, which is on San Polo. The walk led to the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santa_Maria_Gloriosa_dei_Frari" target="_blank">Frari church </a>which has works by Titian and other artists.<br />
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This column is where people came to get their news. Every day someone would climb on this podium via the steps being held up by the hunchback, and read the day's announcements.</div>
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This is one of the oldest clocks in Venice. It is across from the news stand above. It predates the invention of minute hands, which is why it doesn't have one.<br />
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Pigeons are everywhere but they aren't always drinking water from a fountain. Some of the plazas are shady, some are not. Some have fountains, others have statues. They almost always have cafes. Some plazas are all cafe.<br />
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On the way we walked into <a href="http://www.tragicomica.it/english/english.htm" target="_blank">Tragicomica</a>, one of the famous mask making shops in Venice. Yes, there are lots of cheap touristy masks sold everywhere. I suspect most of them are made in China. But the beautiful Carnival masks are made by hand and this shop is one of the traditional makers. They asked us not to take photos inside the shop. I tried to take one of their shop window but the reflections made it difficult to see the contents.<br />
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The Frari church is magnificent.<br />
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This is a funerary monument to Titian, which is in the Frari church.<br />
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This one is a monument to Antonio Canova, which is based on a drawing he made for a tomb for Titian.<br />
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I loved this church.<br />
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After we left, we decided to see if we could get the traghetto across the canal instead of buying yet another single ride vaporetto ticket. We followed the signs and got to the traghetto stop with its green pillar. But there were no boats there. So we found our way back by foot, crossed the Rialto bridge and backtracked to our hotel.<br />
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Our hotel provided tea and coffee and cake in the afternoon. We sat and rested and had a little snack before we collected our suitcases and left. We had brought them down the flights of stairs in the morning and checked out so it was easy to leave.<br />
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To get to the cruise ship, we had to take the #1 vaporetto to Piazzale Roma, then take the <a href="https://europeforvisitors.com/venice/articles/venice-people-mover.htm" target="_blank">People Mover</a> to the cruise ship terminal. The People Mover takes people to the parking areas and the cruise ship terminal. Finding the People Mover was an adventure. We thought it was a trolley because we were following signs for it and then the sign stopped. There was a trolley station there. We were about to board when it occurred to me to ask. It was a good thing I did. We were then pointed to a building. We walked there and got the People Mover (we had bought tickets at the same time as we got our one way ride vaporetto ticket and the guy who sold it to us helpfully marked them with vaporetto and People Mover because they looked the same). At the other end, it was a short flat walk to the cruise ship.<br />
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This was only our second ocean cruise. I realized how convenient it is to be able to haul one's own suitcases on and off the ship. We just walked on and at Athens, we didn't have to commit to a time to leave. We just walked off when we were ready.<br />
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We spent the rest of the afternoon finding our way around the ship and relaxing. The ship didn't disembark till the next day from Venice so it was a quiet evening.<br />
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Jayahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07036842744537641157noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2374648938771459245.post-35151564003314329052017-12-25T17:29:00.002-05:002017-12-25T17:29:44.367-05:00Walking and riding around Venice<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
One of the things I love to do is walk around cities. I get guide books that have walking tours or ones that have walking combined with public transportation. This time, I had bought <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Rick-Steves-Pocket-Venice/dp/1598803832" target="_blank">Rick Steves pocket guides to Venice</a> and Athens. These small books were very useful as they fit in my purse easily. Plus they had guided tours of interesting areas in the cities and museums and palaces. In addition, I found that they had these guided tours (most of them, but not all) in audio format that one could download via an app or as .mp3 files. This proved to be very useful.<br />
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We used the audio tour guide at St. Mark's on the first day. We started the second day with the Doge's Palace. i was really happy we got there when it opened. There was no line and we were in before we knew it. Later that day and the next day in mid-morning, the lines were around the building!<br />
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The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doge%27s_Palace" target="_blank">Doge's Palace</a> was the center of the Venetian Empire. A fact I learned was that Venice was sort of a democracy. Every citizen didn't have a vote. But every member of a noble family (males of course) had a vote and the Doge was voted in. The palace is designed to impress the visitor who comes to seek audience with the Doge and the ruling Council. It is also designed to humble them by keeping them waiting in waiting rooms that are impressive and showcase Venice's power and wealth.<br />
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This is the entrance courtyard of the palace. At the far right in the back you can see the staircase of giants. An important visitor might be met by the Doge standing at the head of this staircase.<br />
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This is the view he would see, except with a Doge and his retinue at the top.</div>
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Our tour started at another staircase, which led up to the Doge's apartments and important governmental rooms.<br />
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A gilded ceiling is impressive. <br />
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How about a marble floor that looks 3-D from on high?<br />
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More gilded ceilings on the next flight of stairs.<br />
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Then one goes into the various rooms where one waits. All of them have beautiful paintings and frescoes.<br />
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Finally, one is admitted to the chamber where the Full Council sits.<br />
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That is where everyone sits and you present your gifts, and your case.<br />
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The ceiling of the Full Council chamber.<br />
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Looking out over the laguna from a window in the Council Chamber. There was a party going on in that restaurant directly across.<br />
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The courtyard from on high, There's that staircase again.<br />
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But not all of the apartments were for the visitors. Venice ruled with a iron hand. We saw a judges' chamber where people were brought in for trial. You were arrested when someone denounced you. Very often you didn't know who accused you. You didn't have any legal representation. You were brought before the judges and you hoped they believe you. If they didn't, there was a door right in the chamber leading to the prisons. Savonarola was tried in that chamber and walked through that door.<br />
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The way then led through some dark and dank corridors across the Bridge of Sighs. The bridge connects the Doge's palace with the prisons. There are openings in the bridge and one can see the laguna and the pier. This would be your last view of the world outside. The prisons had no windows and were damp and cold. Remember that Venice is close to the water. Some of those rooms were below the water line.<br />
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This is the Bridge of Sighs from the other side - the outside. In the previous picture, you see a bridge in front of the laguna with heads of people on it. This photo was taken from that bridge.<br />
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After our visit to the Doge's palace, we went on a walking tour of Venice - another audio guided tour. We had the files/app on our phones and used headphones which meant we didn't look too much like tourists. But in Venice, almost every other person is a tourist so it doesn't matter. It is very expensive to live in Venice so many of the people who work there live on Mestre and commute in. There is more space and it is cheaper. The taxi fares are lower for locals than for tourists.<br />
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Anyway, the next few photos are from the walking tour around Venice. No specific comments on any of them.<br />
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This dark photo is the sign for <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry%27s_Bar_(Venice)" target="_blank">Harry's Bar</a>. Hemingway hung out here.<br />
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Venice's famous opera house - La Fenice. It is pretty spectacular on the inside though we didn't get any further in than the lobby. There is a fee and I didn't want to pay it to see the empty theatre. Donna Leon's first book is '<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Death-Fenice-Commissario-Brunetti-Mystery-ebook/dp/B007SIV41G" target="_blank">Death at La Fenice</a>'. The cover of the book shows the inside of the theatre.<br />
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I like reflections and I photograph them a lot.<br />
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There are power boats on the canals. Venice has garbage boats, police boats (with flashing lights), ambulance boats, and apparently even a UPS boat. We didn't see that one though we kept our eyes open for it.<br />
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Each square has a statue or two. And occasionally (behind the statue) a modern building.<br />
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This is a beautiful spiral staircase. The building is private so you can't go in but it is a hidden gem.<br />
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The famous Rialto bridge.<br />
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Looking down from the top one way.<br />
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And the other. It is jam packed with people, especially on the outside of the shops overlooking the river.<br />
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From the top of the bridge, on the outside, one side is peaceful and serene.<br />
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The other is full of traffic! The boats sometimes wait to go under the bridges because they are narrower than the canal.<br />
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After this walk, we decided to do the guided tour of the Grand Canal by taking the #1 vaporetto. We bought a pass that allowed us to get on and off as we pleased.<br />
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Most of the ground or first floors of the buildings are not occupied. This is because they get flooded regularly. There is a phenomenon called <a href="https://www.visit-venice-italy.com/acqua-alta-venice-italy.htm" target="_blank">Acqua Alta</a>, which occurs at high tide. Water floods in between the stones and there are stacks of elevated boardwalks piled in all the main areas. These are put out for people to walk on.<br />
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This is one of the bridges that links Piazzale Roma to the other islands.<br />
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Piazzale Roma. Buses, trolleys, cars, etc.<br />
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This is what the bridge looks like (the one from two photos ago). Parts of the floor are clear.<br />
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To the left, you can see the vaporetti stops at Piazzale Roma and a vaporetto. At each stop, there are multiple docks. Each dock indicates which lines stop there. Once you get your ticket, you look at a board that tells you when the next boat is for each line and in which direction and the letter of the dock.<br />
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Piazzale Roma is on Santa Croce island. We spent most of our time on San Marco. This is looking out onto Santa Croce.<br />
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We found a little park on Santa Croce near the Piazzale Roma. It is one of the few places we saw trees in Venice.<br />
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How's that for a Burger King? Even in Venice!<br />
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The Scalzi bridge. There are only 4 bridges across the Grand Canal.<br />
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The train station. It is across the bridge from the Piazzale Roma. The trains go across the same causeway to the mainland.<br />
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The Accademia bridge. It is really beautiful. It is the only bridge we didn't walk over.<br />
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This is the Peggy Guggenheim museum entrance.<br />
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The Santa Maria del Salute church.<br />
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The Grand Canal empties into the laguna at St. Mark's Square. Across the laguna from the square is the San Giorgio Maggiore church. We went there the next day.<br />
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This is the customs house. It is right at the end of the canal.<br />
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All this was in the first half of the second day. I'll continue with the rest of day 2 next.<br />
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Jayahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07036842744537641157noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2374648938771459245.post-60475733599886963712017-12-24T16:01:00.000-05:002017-12-24T16:01:10.286-05:00Venice - the Queen of the Adriatc<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
We went to Europe in Oct. Our itinerary was to fly to Venice and spend 2 nights there before boarding a cruise ship on the third day. The ship remained in Venice for another day and then we went to Croatia, Montenegro and Greece. We disembarked in Piraeus, spent 4 nights in Athens and flew back.<br />
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I had never been to that part of the world before. We flew through Venice once but that was it. I have read lots of books about Venice and set in Venice and thought I knew a reasonable amount of Venetian history and art. I was wrong.<br />
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Before leaving, I was in touch with our <a href="https://www.novecento.biz/" target="_blank">boutique hotel</a> via email. They wanted to know when I'd be arriving and if I needed someone to meet me. We got in about noon and I like to take public transport as much as possible when I am sightseeing because you experience the city so differently by moving that way. In this case, the expense sealed the deal. A private taxi is very expensive. The public water taxi is cheap but required a transfer. There is also a public airport taxi.<br />
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Venetians move about using the <a href="https://www.visit-venice-italy.com/water-bus-venice-map-line-2.html" target="_blank">vaporetti</a> or water taxis which are frequent and relatively inexpensive. They go up and down the Grand Canal (lines 1 and 2) and also go to other islands as well to other sides of the main islands. Other than them, one walks. The airport is on the mainland, in Mestre. There are buses that go from the airport to Piazzale Roma which is the only point in Venice where you can come in a wheeled powered vehicle. I assume there are bicycles in Venice but since one has to go over canals via bridges, I didn't see any of them. From Piazzale Roma, we would have switched to a vaporetto and gone to our hotel.<br />
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Instead, I decided to take the airport taxi (the <a href="https://www.alilaguna.it/en" target="_blank">Alilaguna</a>) which is a boat that you take at the airport. It stops at far fewer places than the vaporetti but fortunately, it stopped very close to our hotel. In fact, it stopped at the same dock that the vaporetto would have stopped at. I also had downloaded maps of Venice and looked up the route to the hotel because we wouldn't have access to the internet till we got to the hotel.<br />
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The views were beautiful as we flew in.<br />
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Mountains on the mainland<br />
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The causeway linking Venice to the mainland<br />
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The Alilaguna dock as we wait for our taxi.<br />
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Unfortunately, the way the Alilaguna boats are set up. you go down 3 steps to the place where you sit. The windows are high up and there isn't much of a view. After it emptied out a bit, I knelt on the seat and peered out but at first it was not possible to do that.<br />
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We got off and started walking towards the hotel. Unfortunately, I had no sense of distance and we went over a couple of unnecessary bridges hauling out suitcases up and down the stairs before I caught on. So we had to backtrack, going up and down them again! But it wasn't very much time. Just effort and coming off an overnight flight, tiring.<br />
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Our hotel was in an old palazzo which is what the residential buildings are called. It was small. Only 30 rooms but very comfortable and modern. Our room was up 3 flights of stairs. Fortunately they carried our suitcases up. We rested a bit and then decided to go sight-seeing.<br />
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St. Mark's Square was not too far so we started there.<br />
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Our first view of the square. Being late afternoon, it was not that crowded. When we saw it the next day, it was packed.<br />
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<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Mark%27s_Basilica" target="_blank"> St. Mark's Basilica</a>. I had just read <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Inferno-Novel-Robert-Langdon-Book-ebook/dp/B00AXIZ4TQ/ref=sr_1_3?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1514147935&sr=1-3&keywords=dan+brown" target="_blank">Dan Brown's Inferno</a> earlier in the year. Part of the action is set in Venice <a href="https://www.florenceinferno.com/venice/" target="_blank">in and around St. Mark's</a>. I also read a series of books by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donna_Leon" target="_blank">Donna Leon</a> whose protagonist is a detective in Venice. Many of the names and places are very familiar and it was exciting to see them in real life and compare them with my imagination.<br />
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One of the sides of St. Mark Square with the clock tower to the right.<br />
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View of the Doge's Palace from the square.<br />
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Photography is forbidden inside the Basilica and the guards stop you if they see you. But I snuck a photo of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pala_d%27Oro" target="_blank">Pala D'Oro</a> because there weren't any guards behind the screen.<br />
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Up on the balcony there is no restriction on photos. This is the square from the balcony.<br />
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Some of the gorgeous murals on the cathedral. Venice's rule extended to Byzantium and beyond and the Cathedral is made up of things that were brought back by the Doges as well as things created in the Byzantine style. This was one of the things I learned. I knew Venice had far-flung impact due to its location and the trade that went through it. But I didn't realize how much they actually ruled in terms of geography.<br />
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The famous horses on the balcony. These are copies. The originals are inside in the museum.<br />
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Looking out to the laguna from the balcony. The Doge's palace is to the left.<br />
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Looking out at the clock tower.<br />
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The far side of the balcony, away from the laguna, looks down on this square. Getting to the edge on that side involved walking across some very uneven stones in the balcony.<br />
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A close up of the clock tower<br />
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A couple of views of the mosaic frescoes taken from the street level. It is such a beautiful structure! That is what I loved about Venice. Everywhere you look, there is gorgeous architecture and it is from all over.<br />
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After descending, we walked over to the laguna and got our bearings. We came back here the next day so more on that later.<br />
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There are two famous, very old cafes in the square. You can sit inside or outside and have a cup of coffee or a drink and people watch.<br />
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Gondolas lined up along the laguna. We didn't take a gondola ride as it didn't appeal to me. But we saw them everywhere and I took a lot of photos of them.<br />
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The Doge's Palace.<br />
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People sitting around. We went during the quiet season but there were still plenty of tourists!<br />
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One of the gondola docks. That green tower is supposed to be a sign of the boats that ferry (<a href="https://europeforvisitors.com/venice/articles/traghetto.htm" target="_blank">traghetti</a>) you across the canal. We went looking for one one day but never saw a boat. They are large gondolas.<br />
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I love the way the light reflected off the water.<br />
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After all that, we were tired and stopped at a cafe in one of the squares to grab a quick dinner and went to bed.<br />
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We lucked out with perfect weather. No rain and no clouds on most days. it was in the 70s F - easy to walk around in the sun without getting too hot.<br />
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I am finally done with all the weaving I committed myself to. Now, no one twisted my arm and no one is expecting presents. But I thought it would be nice to take home-made gifts to family in India. I've always been a bit leery of taking knitted things as most of them live in warm weather places. I've given my SILs and aunt a couple of knitted shawls for use when they travel to colder places.<br />
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But now I am weaving and a woven shawl is much lighter and more useful than a knitted one. Besides, knitting with the fine yarns that one can use in weaving is time consuming. Weaving with them is easy.<br />
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I showed you the yarns I was planning to use in my last post. My plan was to warp for 2 scarves at a time and weave different designs by varying the sequence in which I depress the treadles as well as the possibly the weft. I would have warped for more scarves but I didn't have enough yarn. I would have had to use 3 colors in the warp and then a fourth in the weft. I thought that might be too much. So two it was.<br />
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I used the same basic color plan for warping. Even stripes, but I didn't want it to be half and half. I decided to put one repeat on each side in the color from the other half of the scarf. It worked really well.<br />
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This is the first warp for example. The warp is half maroon and half teal. But there is a narrow stripe of maroon on the teal side and a corresponding stripe of teal on the maroon side.<br />
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Here is the first scarf which I showed in process above. It has an indigo weft.<br />
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The same warp with a ruby weft and a different pattern.<br />
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Details of the two patterns. The colors are accurate in the big pictures. In the close-ups, the camera gets a bit confused color wise.<br />
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I also finished the socks I was knitting two-at-a-time. I worked on them a little bit at a time in the evenings and finished them up on a drive we had to do for some business.</div>
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These 3 photos are the close-ups of the second pair of scarves and a sample I did with the bit of warp left over. All three use the same threading through the heddles but a different sequence of treadling. All of these patterns are basic twills where I am raising two shafts on the loom at a time and moving fairly rhythmically across the shafts.<br />
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These two scarves were done with stripes of tartan (green) and chestnut (brown) in the warp and a weft of old gold.<br />
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I also finished up two scarves with the Shetland I was using up. Now I have only a little bit of the yarn left. These and the cotton/linen one that follows are plain weave woven on the rigid heddle loom, I am now at the point with that loom that I can warp it in a little over an hour and finish a scarf in 2-3 days.<br />
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First of the two scarves. The second is still drying so I'll post a pic next time. I'd rather wait for daylight to take the photo.<br />
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Lastly, one of my SILs doesn't wear silk so I made her this cotton/linen scarf from the same yarn I used for the towels. To break up the monotony for me, I inserted some hand-manipulated laces at various points. I had used one of these in my doubleweave workshop but had never done it otherwise.<br />
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These two are called Leno. The bottom is on an open shed (with the two layers of warp separated) and the top is on a closed shed. I like it better on the closed shed.<br />
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Then I did another called Brooks Bouquet which I like better overall. I find Leno a pain to do but I like working Brooks Bouquet. I saw this for the first time at the Ashford shop in New Zealand. The top is a closed shed and the one below is on an open shed. Here I prefer the open shed version.</div>
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And that is it for now. 10 scarves and 3 towels since Sept. Of those, 6 scarves since Thanksgiving.<br />
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Tomorrow I am going to finish sewing the hems on the towels and then will wet finish them. I also got little labels to put on the scarves that say 'Handmade with love by Jaya' and will sew those in too.<br />
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More photos to come of all that and my next knitting project. I may also take the opportunity next week of it being a bit quieter to do the travel write-up from one of the two trips.<br />
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Merry Christmas to all those who celebrate!</div>
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I have been weaving and weaving and weaving. I had this pile of Harris Tweed Textiles Shetland jumperweight that I had bought on Elann.com years ago. They were getting out of the yarn business and it was cheap. Lovely yarn. I have no regrets about buying it. I used it to make the color gamp scarf in the summer and fell in love with the handle of the fabric that it created.<br />
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This was the color gamp scarf, in case you missed it then.<br />
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So I decided to use the rest of the yarn to make scarves for the men in my family. Unfortunately, I only see my son at Thanksgiving and I knew I was going to see my brother then. Christmas can be iffy due to the weather. I wove two more scarves with the yarn. One using clasped weft and the other was just stripes.<br />
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That yarn is just beautiful. It blooms and creates a gorgeous fabric. So all those three have gone to their new homes.<br />
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I love weaving on the floor loom. I warped up some towels following a pattern blindly. My only deviations from the instructions in the book had to do with color and fiber content. I used my own color combination and a cotton-linen yarn instead of a cotton yarn.<br />
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The process was a learning experience. First, I had never woven with such thin yarn. I had lots of warp threads to wind. That process went very smoothly. Then I had to warp the loom. Part way through winding the warp threads on the back beam, the right hand side jumped out of the spacers (raddle) than they were threaded through and ended up in a big bunch on the back beam. Oy veh! I thought about it overnight and decided to try and fix it because that bunching would mean the threads would go through the metal heddles at a sharp angle, causing a lot of abrasion and maybe breaking threads. So my husband and I slowly wound the warp off the loom, I redistributed the threads on the back beam as best as I could and we wound it back on. It wasn't ideal because there were a lot of crossed threads, but it was the best I could do. Fortunately, while there was a bit of abrasion (I have rust dust bunnies under the loom), the threads held together and I didn't see any wear on them. I have to be a lot more careful next time.<br />
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They are off the loom but not finished. I need to hem them before finishing. But I have more weaving to do so I am holding off finishing them now.<br />
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The mystery in this project is that I ended up with 3 towels in stead of two. I ran out of the rust colored yarn after the first two towels (the project called for 8 oz of that color and I had exactly 8 oz). I wove the third towel with the mauve contrast yarn. This project was from <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Learn-Weave-Anne-Field-Project-Based/dp/1570766185" target="_blank">Anne Field's Learn to Weave</a> book.<br />
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I heard about a selvedge treatment described in <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Handweavers-Pattern-Directory-Anne-Dixon/dp/1596680407/ref=pd_lpo_sbs_14_t_1?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=FSY5V2K4XR0KW2ES9J93" target="_blank">Anne Dixon's Handweaver's Pattern Directory</a>. It was on a Ravelry forum and I thought I'd try it. I really love the way this selvedge looks. It is really solid and like a commercially woven selvedge.<br />
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Anyway, while I was weaving these towels. I decided to weave silk scarves for family in India. We are going there in Jan. That is why I am not hemming and finishing the towels yet. They probably won't be going to India and I want to get those gifts completed first.<br />
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First I wove another Shetland scarf. I finished that today. I need to wet finish it tomorrow. I put stripes into the warp and used a solid for the weft.<br />
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I spent some time today planning the silk scarves. These are the colors of silk that I bought from <a href="https://colourmart.com/yarns/view/in_stock.*.rank.*.show_all" target="_blank">Colourmart</a> over the summer.<br />
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The idea behind buying them was to use them to learn various weave structures. I've decided that my first structure is twill. The scarf I made was in a 2/2 twill and the towels also were in a twill called M&O. For these scarves, I've picked a twill called M&W because the threading on the loom is like an M and a W.<br />
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My plan is to warp for two scarves in stripes and weave with a third color. The two scarves will have the same warp threading but I will treadle the weaving in a different pattern and that will create a completely different design in the fabric. This way I save on warping time and still end up with unique though fraternal scarves.<br />
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I start winding the warp for the first 2 scarves tomorrow.<br />
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In between all this, I did get some knitting done. I knitted a wrap when I was traveling in New Mexico at the beginning of Sept.<br />
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The pattern is <i><a href="https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/i-want-that-wrap" target="_blank">I want that Wrap</a> </i>from Ravelry. I found the perfect buttons at the LYS. The yarn is handspun from a door prize I won at a fiber retreat in 2012. It has a bit of sparkle in it so I wanted dressy buttons.<br />
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I also made progress on the two at a time socks. No photos of the progress but I am half way up the leg now.<br />
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More on weaving next time. After these scarves are done, I hope to get back to spinning. I haven't spun since the Tour de Fleece in July!<br />
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Jayahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07036842744537641157noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2374648938771459245.post-24908264586553290482017-11-27T11:22:00.000-05:002017-11-27T11:22:43.096-05:00Navajo Weaving class at Rhinebeck and Navajo rugs<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
The other full day class I took at Rhinebeck was on Navajo weaving. I have always been fascinated by rugs but not to the extent of learning how to knot them. The process of rug hooking doesn't interest me but weaving rugs does. I don't think I will become a rug weaver but making the occasional rug is definitely in the cards.<br />
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I had heard good things about the Navajo weaving class that was offered last year at Rhinebeck. So when it was on the list of workshops for this year, I signed up. It sold out pretty quickly but the teacher was willing to add another day so more people were able to take it. She vends at the festival so can only teach on Thursday and Friday.<br />
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The <a href="http://www.navajorugsart.com/" target="_blank">teacher</a> is a member of the Navajo Nation and her whole family weaves. She showed us an example of her niece's weaving when she was a child as well as an adult. As a 5-year old, she made a striped rug. These rugs are all made from vertical and horizontal lines - which is all the patterning we learned in class. One can also make diagonals but a one-day class isn't sufficient to teach that also.<br />
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This one has some diagonal lines on it.<br />
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We started off with warped looms but we had to add the side warps to the loom. These are single strands of wool that hide the un-dyed warp on the sides. They are used to eventually make the tassels at the ends of the rugs. Once we did that, we created our two sheds. One shed is created by looping thread around a dowel and every other warp strand. The second shed is picked up with the beater behind the dowel shed.<br />
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Here you can see the loom set up with the two sheds. The dowel shed is kept up at the top except when used in weaving. Here you can see the second shed being created behind it. You can also see the edge of the rug in brown at the bottom.<br />
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We got 8 oz of yarn in any combination of colors we wanted. I picked relatively traditional colors - black, tan, natural and a red.<br />
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Once we had all this set up we started weaving. You weave with lengths of yarn and add on as needed. First we did an edging stripe in the same color as the edge yarn. Then we learned how to add another color. It is very similar to other weaving except that one is manipulating everything with one's fingers vs. using a shuttle. Adding in another color is how you do horizontal stripes.<br />
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After we had woven a stripe or two, we learned how to do vertical stripes. This is like tapestry weaving where you interlace the two colors every other weft pick (or row).<br />
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Since she demonstrated everything so quickly, I took videos of each step so I could refer back to them when I finish my rug.<br />
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This is the current state of my rug. You can see the black edging warp. I am making a cross like figure and adding in more colors as I widen the arms. I am not going to try and make it symmetrical as that requires not only measurement but accurate beating to make sure the same number of weft threads end up in the top as at the bottom.<br />
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The weft is beaten in with a tapestry beater. She lent us these tools for the class. I will use the metal hair pick I used when making my jeans rug along with a pickup stick to beat into a straight line periodically. One weaves this in sections and one can build up one side and then the other to compensate. However, at this time, I decided to stick to doing both at the same time due to my lack of experience in making them match!<br />
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As the rug get higher and higher and there is less room, one starts using narrower pickup sticks and then eventually a knitting needle or dowel to make the sheds. The dowel shed will have to come out also. One keeps packing the weft down as much as possible and eventually when there is no space left, one is done.<br />
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The finishing is simple, undo the twine that holds the rug to the loom on both top and bottom. Then take the ends of the edging warp and knot them together.<br />
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They can then be braided or twisted like a fringe.<br />
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I am designing on the go like the Navajo women do. Right now I have only vague ideas of how the rug will look.<br />
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I spoke to a young Navajo man at the <a href="https://www.nps.gov/pefo/learn/historyculture/pdi.htm" target="_blank">Painted Desert Inn</a> in the Petrified Forest National Park in Arizona. His grandmother was weaving but she had gone out for a break and didn't return while we were there. He said that in his family, men don't weave. So he didn't show us how to do it. But he demonstrated how the wool is carded and spun using regular wool cards and Navajo spindles. His spinning wasn't that good either because he said he was just learning. It is a tightly spun woolen singles yarn which is dyed using natural dyes like cochineal, various woods (he gave us Navajo names so I don't know what they were), and plants. His grandmother had a rug on a larger frame than the one I am showing above but it was very similar.<br />
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He said that traditionally the warp was on two branches or dowels top and bottom. No sides. The top was attached to a tree branch where the women were tending their sheep. The bottom was pegged into the ground to tension the warp. When the sheep needed to move on, the loom was detached, rolled up and carried to the next spot. The entire process of carding and spinning and weaving was designed for a nomadic life, following the sheep.<br />
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The New Mexico State Capitol is an art gallery. It is free to come in and look at the hundreds of painting, mixed media art, weaving and sculpture that are featured in the corridors. It is weird to walk in among people who work there but that is the way it is designed to be viewed. I took photos of a number of the art pieces and have included the traditional Native American weavings here. Some are Navajo and others are by other tribes.<br />
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More on the state capitol when I talk about that trip. I also have photos from the Painted Desert Inn discussion but those are in the camera and I need to sort through them.<br />
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Jayahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07036842744537641157noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2374648938771459245.post-8900996270795186132017-11-19T20:51:00.001-05:002017-11-19T20:51:44.672-05:00Dyeing cotton naturally workshop at Rhinebeck<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
I took a cotton dyeing class with <a href="https://www.facebook.com/Brigids-Farm-152812811444262/" target="_blank">Jane Woodhouse</a> on the Thursday before Rhinebeck. I had done no natural dyeing except for indigo so I was very excited to get into this class. Jane's classes fill up fast.<br />
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When we arrived, we were divided into teams. Each team had two people and I lucked out in that I had a very efficient and complementary partner. The class involves making sample skeins from many different natural dyes - from the lovely purples of logwood to the browns of pomegranate. Each team was given a dye. Most of the dyes were powders but the osage orange was a liquid. We got madder root which interested me but my partner didn't like the color. She loves bright colors and was hoping for logwood or cochineal. Oh well.<br />
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We had to make 6 sample skeins with the dye. The first set of three was to dye skeins that had been mordanted with alum acetate. This is a bit different from the alum sulphate that is readily available for pickling and other uses. The skeins had been scoured and mordanted before class. The second set of three skeins was to dye skeins that also had been mordanted with a tannin. There are many tannins and they all leave the fiber a brown color. Tannins are a dye and a mordant. Pomegranate, for example, is both a dye and a mordant.<br />
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We briefly soaked the skeins in water because they were getting a little dry. They need to be damp to dye properly. We had to weigh out the dye stuff, mix it in a little very hot water, and then add a specific amount of warm water and the fiber to the dye solution. We mixed everything up in mason jars and then set our first set of dye pots simmering in a water bath. Another very important task was to label each jar with a number that identified it on a master list of the samples. Otherwise the end of the day would have been chaotic!<br />
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After the dye pots had been heated to 180F and held there for 30 mins. we carefully lifted them out and set them on the grass to cool. We were in a tent and it was warm so we expanded out into the area surrounding the tent. You can see the thermometer in the dye jar above. The jars were simmered in a water bath in canning kettles. These photos show the sets of three.<br />
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Once our first set of three was in the water bath, we did the same thing for the second set of three samples. The reason for the sets of three was that each dye stuff was going to yield a sample of its natural color, then one modified with iron (ferrous sulphate) and one that would be over-dyed with indigo.<br />
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Here we are adding the ferrous sulphate and stirring. Iron dulls the color but sometimes that is what you want. Once the jars had cooled somewhat, we removed the skeins, rinsed them and hung them up to dry. Fortunately, there is a nice fence next to the tent which Jane uses every year as a drying rack. I've admired the skeins in past years.</div>
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Our tannin mordanted skeins went in next into the water bath. Then we did a couple of things in parallel. Jane had built an indigo dye pot but it needed to be refreshed and checked so she went off to do that. The rest of us started on the third set of samples. </div>
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The third set had to do with dyeing with stock solutions. Unlike synthetic dyes, natural dyestuffs do not have a fixed amount to yield a 1% stock solution. The dye manufacturer will provide a guide on each jar based on its strength. Jane had given us some combinations to make to create other colors that weren't possible with one single dye. We created the stock solutions, which didn't use all the dyes that we had used earlier. They used a subset. Then we carefully measured out the correct amounts of the stock solution for each color using syringes. These were added to mason jars (again labeled with the number of the formula) and then we put one each of the two mordanted skeins. One was the alum only and the other was the tannin+alum.</div>
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Once these were simmering in the water bath, we started dyeing our earlier samples in the indigo dye bath. It was interesting to see that the tannin samples barely picked up the indigo. Tannins are acid and indigo likes an alkaline environment to dye fiber.</div>
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One result of doing this in a single day class was that we didn't get the full depth of color. Almost all dyes take a while to absorb as the dye bath cools down and we should have really left the skeins in overnight to get the maximum color. Similarly, indigo does best with multiple dips with drying and oxidizing time between dips. We did a couple of dips for some of the samples but most got just one dip in the indigo. </div>
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Once our skeins were mostly dry, we cut them into pieces and labeled them with the number. This is where my partner and I collaborated brilliantly. We got ours done and then helped other teams who were slower. By this time, the class was tired and the whole process of creating the individual samples and labeling them and finally picking up a set of them created some frustration and flouncing.</div>
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These were the tables with the samples laid out. We each had to pick up one piece from each skein. I decided to wait till everyone was done as there was a huge crush around the table. As a result, it was almost dark by the time we were done and I am missing 1 or 2 samples. </div>
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When I got home, I just laid out the samples to finish drying as some of them were still damp. A couple of weeks later I got some cardstock and punched holes in it, and wrote down all the numbers of the dyes and combinations we created. I then attached each skein to its number on the card.</div>
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I have 3 sheets of card that look like this. But at least everything is organized and I can look up any sample and its constituent formula easily.</div>
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All in all a really educational day. I realized that natural dyes are not that different from synthetic dyes except that there is no guarantee on the exact color. The mineral content of your water makes a difference as well as the strength of the dye stuff. We used manufactured dye powders/liquids in this class and at least there, the manufacturer has tested the strength and given us an indicator as to that. When one dyes with natural substances from one's garden or kitchen, there is even more variability in the color. </div>
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I collected marigold and black eyed susan blooms from the garden this summer and they are in the freezer along with some pomegranate skins. I also have some dye plants called pernilla that we weeded out of the dye garden at the fairgrounds. It grows everywhere and we pulled it out from where it didn't belong. I plan to simmer them and use them to dye wool this winter. It should be an interesting experiment. </div>
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It has been really busy around here and that is why there hasn't been any blogging. We were out in Europe for 2 weeks and I came back right before Rhinebeck. This year Rhinebeck expanded out into 4.5 days because I helped with workshop setup also. Usually I just help pack up on Sunday.<br />
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It ended up being quite tiring because I was there to help with class check-in at 7:30 (Thurs/Fri) and 8:30 (Sat/Sun). I thought I'd get home early on Thurs after class but class ran late. On Friday, I volunteered at the fleece judging as a scribe so it was late. I usually try to leave either early or late on Sat and Sun to avoid the traffic. So most days were long. It is a 45 min drive for me one-way. But it is so much fun that I don't care.<br />
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I took 3 classes this year. On Thursday I took 'Dyeing Cotton Naturally' with <a href="https://www.facebook.com/Brigids-Farm-152812811444262/" target="_blank">Jane Woodhouse</a>. Jane is a great teacher. It was a long day as we made many, many samples. First we dyed natural colored cotton which had been mordanted with alum acetate. Then we dyed cotton that had been mordanted with alum and a tannin. Lastly we made stock solutions and did color blends.<br />
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Each of the first two sets twas done 3 ways: the dye as is, with an iron modifier and with an indigo over-dye.<br />
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<span style="text-align: left;">The challenging part was labeling and dividing up the skeins so we each had a sample of each yarn. I finally got around to organizing my samples! I now need a big envelope to store them.</span></div>
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On Friday, I took a Navajo Rug Weaving class. We got small pre-warped looms and 8 oz of yarn to weave with. It took a while for her to explain the basics. She taught us how to weave vertical and horizontal stripes. Diagonals were not included in the curriculum for this one day class. It was fun and I need to get back to it. The teacher was <a href="http://www.navajorugsart.com/" target="_blank">Marilou Schultz</a> who is a member of the Navajo Nation.<br />
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The last class I took was on Sunday. It was a 1 hour 'Made in the Moment' with <a href="https://www.etsy.com/shop/lesliewind" target="_blank">Leslie Wind</a>. That was a lot of fun! I made a pin and 2 cable needles. Plus, because we were the last class of the weekend, we each got some samples from her.<br />
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The cable needles I made. The left one is called 'Hurrah!' and the right one is 'Angel'. </div>
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Someone gave me 2 bags of unlabeled undyed fiber and another person gave me a bag of Into the Whirled fiber. The only fiber I bought was odds and ends that Briar Rose had dyed. She is getting out of the fiber business and just dyed these to use up the ends. I bought a featherweight Bosworth spindle. I haven't photographed any of my acquisitions yet so that will be in the next post.<br />
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Right after Rhinebeck, I had to focus on an educational forum I was helping organize and canvassing for the election. So the fiber content has been minimal BUT, I was able to warp and weave a scarf on my Baby Wolf loom. That was exciting. I am already planning the next project on it as well as what I'm going to do on my rigid heddle loom.<br />
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Scarf on the loom above and finally finished below. It is a variegated weft with an almost solid gray warp. Both yarns are cheap 'sock' yarns I bought in China. They are quite soft but not very durable for socks.</div>
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I also started a pair of Two-At-A-Time (TAAT) socks while I was traveling. I have finished them up to the heels. They are for a guild demo so I am going to stop there till the guild meeting. This way I can show back and forth knitting on the two socks as well as how to knit on them in-the-round.<br />
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I finished the wrap I worked on when I was on the first trip and also a little infinity scarf/cowl from a skein of the most luscious yarn I have ever touched. It is called <a href="https://www.thefibreco.com/product/road-china-light/" target="_blank">Road to China</a>. I don't seem to have a photo of the wrap. I'll take it and post next time.<br />
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Rhinebeck was very warm this year. But it was cold in the am so I wore a sweater or shawl every day and then ended up taking them off around 10 am. They went back on right before I left at 6 or 7 pm. I did get a chance to finally wear my Grapevine sweater.<br />
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I am sure you remember all my collapse weave experiments from the spring and the spinning of the singles during the Tour de Fleece. Well, I finally got around to warping and weaving the scarf and it turned out exactly as I had hoped. The challenge with collapse weave is that it is unpredictable so getting results that are sort of what you wanted is wonderful.<br />
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This is the warp. 2 sets: one S-spun and one Z-spun. These were sized with xanthan gum.<br />
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This is the weft. I had 2 skeins of roughly the same size. I chose to use the larger skein but I should have gone with the smaller one. Oh well.<br />
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The warping process was very easy. The sized singles were a bit stiff and smooth. I ran out of the Z-spun singles so the warp was not as wide as I had planned. I still have a bunch of the S-spun ones. I warped the S-spun with 2 strands in a slot and hole for 1/2" and then the Z-spun for 1" with 1 strand in each slot and hole. So the S-spun was more tightly sett than the Z-spun. I used a 10 dent heddle which is pretty wide for this fine of a yarn. But one needs to leave a lot of room in between the strands to allow them room to collapse. This is similar to what we have to do with felting in knitting.<br />
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The gradient goes from a magenta to a grey through blue and violet. I wanted to make sure I had the warmer end of the gradient so I started weaving from the magenta end. You can see the range on the right hand side of this photo.</div>
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I did 6 picks packed tightly and then 8 picks at a balanced weave. The 6 picks came out to be about 1/2" and the 8 picks came out to be about 1" to mimic the warp.</div>
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The weft was not sized so I was afraid to wind it into a center-pull ball. I wanted to keep the yarn under tension. So I wound it onto a tennis ball. Then I had to rewind it so that I was starting with the correct end. The singles had broken in one spot when I was winding them onto the niddy-noddy. So I wound off till I hit the knot, undid it, and then rewound it onto the shuttle so the undone knot was on the inside of the shuttle and the magenta was on the outside. Then it was time to start weaving.</div>
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The weaving went fast. Since there are no color changes, it was a matter of just paying attention to the denser and looser weaves. </div>
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Once it was off the loom, it looked like this. It is easy to see the thicker and thinner parts in this photo, both on the warp and the weft.<br />
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Before washing, I had to finish the fringe. I couldn't separate the S-spun and the Z-spun into separate fringe elements so I ended up braiding them to make sure they stayed OK. They got a bit distorted after washing but they still look nice.<br />
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The magic happens in the water. I soaked the scarf in a few baths to get rid of the sizing. Each bath was about 10-20 mins long. Then I hung it up to dry.<br />
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Here's the finished scarf after drying. I hadn't trimmed the fringe yet but otherwise it is complete.<br />
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Jayahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07036842744537641157noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2374648938771459245.post-44123483508900922922017-09-19T10:04:00.003-04:002017-09-19T10:04:46.353-04:00Explanation for the silence<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
We went on vacation to New Mexico, Arizona and Colorado so I have a lot of new material to share with you in the travel domain. I am in the middle of a few fiber things which I hope to complete by next week and post.<br />
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I am really busy right now with a number of things so I don't know when I will have time to look through the vacation photos and post. But rest assured that I will do so in the next couple of months.<br />
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My posting will be spotty till the end of Oct. There is yard work, processing of CSA farm shares - freezing what we don't eat in a week, and other sundry stuff that is keeping me busy. Add to that some meetings and workshops and I am having trouble finding time for a lot of things.<br />
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Once we get past Oct, the CSA share and the yard work will die down and I'll have a lot more time, I hope.<br />
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In the mean time, we are almost at the end of summer. Our weather is very summer-like. We were supposed to get rains from Tropical Storm Jose today but the sun is out.<br />
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Enjoy what is left of summer!</div>
Jayahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07036842744537641157noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2374648938771459245.post-33169792529602616912017-08-18T15:13:00.000-04:002017-08-18T15:13:56.436-04:00Glass sculptures!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
I am afraid that I don't have too many fiber topics to discuss today. I have finished one sleeve on my Grapevine sweater but I need to start the other one. I am hoping to have it done this weekend but there are so many things going on that I don't know if I will be able to or not.<br />
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Being away at the workshop and then having the first full week in August fly by meant that I had to spend a good bit of time in the garden this week. There were weeds everywhere. I have managed to weed everything but the flower bed by the mailbox. I hope to get to that tomorrow. I thought I could do it today but it rained last night and I don't want to compress the wet soil by walking on it.<br />
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A couple of things arrived by mail that are interesting. I bought a sifting litter box from Petco to wash fleece. I haven't used it yet but it fits nicely in the laundry tub and I think I will end up saving water by using it.<br />
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It stacks nicely together for storage. My idea is that I'll fill one of the pans with hot water for washing/rinsing, put the fleece in the sifter in lingerie bags so it is easy to move around, and then soak it by putting the sifter in the pan of water. When it is time to remove the fleece from that water, I can press out the water using the other pan and then put the sifter in it to drain while I change the water. It is about 4-5" deep.<br />
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Next up, I bought an almost new <a href="https://www.zuca.com/school-and-sport" target="_blank">Züca</a> bag on Craigslist. I haven't put the minispinner in it yet as I have been too busy. We had guests all last weekend and they only left on Monday.<br />
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It is really pink! but the black and white bag sets off the pink rather nicely. The price was good so I am embracing the pink.<br />
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The last item is an amazing prize I won in the Tour de Fleece. It is exactly something I was thinking of buying so getting it as a prize is really awesome.<br />
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It is a purpleheart 2-bobbin kate from <a href="http://hansencrafts.com/" target="_blank">Hansencrafts</a>! My lazy kates are all 3-bobbin so I was thinking of getting this one for workshops as it is lighter and smaller. The bobbins can be held vertical or at a 45 degree angle.<br />
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Now on to the eye-candy. Yesterday, we went to see the <a href="https://www.nybg.org/event/chihuly-2/" target="_blank">Chihuly exhibit</a> at the New York Botanical Garden. They have a <a href="https://www.nybg.org/event/chihuly-2/chihuly-nights/" target="_blank">Chihuly Nights</a> event every so often as part of the exhibit and that is what we did. No commentary here, just photos.<br />
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It was really beautiful at night because there was very little ambient light except for the gorgeously lit glass sculptures. The NYBG had an interactive map that showed where I was and where the sculptures were, along with the walkways. So I could navigate using my phone. When I got near a sculpture, it popped up a description of the sculpture and the name and a photo of it in daylight.<br />
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I was able to lay out the collapse weave project based on warp and weft calculations and my yardage. It will be a scarf as I don't have enough weft for a shawl. I hope to warp it next week and also finish the Grapevine sweater. </div>
Jayahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07036842744537641157noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2374648938771459245.post-33024617135488678402017-08-11T15:25:00.000-04:002017-08-11T15:44:08.358-04:00At Judith MacKenzie's feet - Part 2<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
After the camel top, we moved on to silk. I was especially interested in this as I have some silk at home and I have been afraid to spin it. We covered silk caps/hankies, silk bricks and silk top. I wasn't quick enough to score some of the lovely Red Eri silk top Judith had for sale so I had to be content with admiring other people's spinning.<br />
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Judith believes that silk top must be spun worsted. Sara Lamb, in her <i>Spinning Silk</i> video from Interweave spins over the fold. Sara's point is that she spins a lot of silk and if she spun it short forward draw, her hands wouldn't survive the process. Judith gave us some statistics about fibers and how many times they can be bent/straightened or folded before they give way. I don't remember all the numbers but wool can tolerate this many tens of thousands of times. These are just to give you orders of magnitude, not exact numbers. Cotton and Tencel fall in the middle with tolerances in the few thousands. Silk has the lowest tolerance. The implication here is that the yarn will not be as durable because as you knit or crochet, and as you use the item, the folded silk fibers (from spinning over the fold) will flex and straighten and eventually give way. It was an interesting perspective and as most of us are not spinning for heirloom items, it may not be a big deal. </div>
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Silk also will stick to almost any surface. Human skin and other silk are two exceptions. She recommended that we wrap the fiber in a silk scarf and hold it within the scarf and spin from the end peeking out. During the class, one of the members held a silk hankie in his fiber hand and spun silk. I didn't have any silk with me so I held it loosely in my hand and spun it quite successfully. The tip from the worsted spinning the day before helped me a lot.</div>
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The thread on the bobbin core is what I spun. The rest is the silk she gave us to spin. I spun a very fine Corriedale when I first got a support spindle and I thought it might be nice to ply a fine silk yarn to ply with it. That bleached tussah in the bottom is for that purpose. I don't have much yardage in the Corriedale but there should be enough for a cowl. The rest is honey tussah. I showed Judith my singles and she thought I could add some more twist to it. I was pleased that I didn't have a lot of lumps and bumps and also didn't have to pull off any messed up fiber. The messed up silk is good for carding and blending. </div>
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We also discussed spinning embroidery thread. The key here is that it should be 2-ply, it should have a lot of twist and it needs to be fine. The 2-ply is so that there is a 'bite ' to the yarn so it stays put on the fabric. A 3-ply is a round yarn and is more likely to slip and slide on the fabric. Once the yarn is plied, it should have an even twist so that it doesn't snag. Judith paid for her first wheel by spinning embroidery floss and selling it in 10-yd lengths. I think I have some spindle-spun yarn that might qualify for embroidery thread in diameter if not in quality.</div>
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We also discussed silk caps. These are like silk hankies except that hankies are cocoons spread out on a square frame and a cap is stretched out over a cap-shaped form. Judith tried to demonstrate how she stretches out the cap on her swift. She puts it on the top, secures the ends around the spokes - you just have to stretch them to fit evenly on the spokes, they will stay put, and then she opens the swift to stretch the cap. However, the swift we had in class did not cooperate because it opened in a different way. So she ended up stretching it with her hands. She then broke off an end and started drafting. The important part to remember here is that you can't draft once you get some twist into the silk fibers because we are looking at a set of single long fibers. So draft the silk out to an approximation of the thickness you want. </div>
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A silk brick is a very tightly compressed piece of silk fiber. You have to find the end and open it up. It is wound up and compressed while it is still wet. So the top layer of fiber won't draft properly and needs to be discarded. It is wrinkly and doesn't look much like silk. Judith's experience is that it won't straighten out even if you wet and stretch it. She recommended that it be used for blending or carding where you want some texture. After that removing that section, the rest of the brick is spun just like top.</div>
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We moved on to dyeing. Judith had asked us to bring items to dye in an indigo bath and many students had brought shirts, pants, yarn, etc. It was a revelation to me that I could dye these types of items in an indigo bath. Indigo will dye almost anything. One student knit a sweater in an orange-y yarn and it looked gorgeous after dyeing. She also dyed a neon poly-cotton T-shirt which turned a nice bright shade of green. </div>
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The bath was created with the same pre-reduced indigo that I had used at Rhinebeck. But this time, one of the epiphanies from the class is that I don't have to keep an indigo pot going for a long time. Judith showed us how we can make a dye-pot, dye items till the dye is exhausted and then be done with it. The class included a silk scarf for dyeing but Judith had also brought things she had found in thrift shops. One of her finds was a large number of 100% linen T-shirts that were labeled 4XL but weren't anywhere close to that size. They were more like a women's large. She had dyed some of them with tea and some with tea and cochineal. We were welcome to as many as we wanted once everyone had a chance to get one at a cost of $5 which was Judith's cost. I took 2 - a tea dyed one and a white one. I also dyed 2 hand-stitched napkins. I am now going to be haunting my local Goodwill store. </div>
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I was a bit taken aback by the additional items to dye so I didn't plan my dyeing very well. I should have tied the tea dyed T-shirt before putting in the dye-bath. As it turned out, both T-shirts ended up with a very similar color. I dipped each shirt twice, one day apart. The first T-shirt is pretty evenly dyed with a bit of a kettle-dyed look. I decided to tie the second T-shirt after its first bath as it was really splotchy and I didn't like the splotches. I rolled it diagonally and tied it. You can see the faint diagonal lines on the front and the more pronounced ones in the back.</div>
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I decided to tie-dye the silk scarf but I didn't have anything except thread to tie it. No clamps or blocks like I had at Rhinebeck. I just folded it in half lengthwise, pleated it and tied it in 3 places around the pleats. I really like the result. It has a damask design on it so the white parts are not completely plain.<br />
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These are the two napkins. All the items were dipped concurrently and sequentially in the same 3 pots so there were a number of items in each dye pot. That accounts for the lines and uneven dyeing. These were a pale pink damask before I started on them. I like the result. They look used.<br />
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I also dipped my camel skein and the skein I spun to sample the custom Manx Loaghtan blend I got at the class. The camel is on the right and the other one is one the right. I like the effect of indigo on camel.<br />
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To make the dye pot, we filled the pot with water just warm to the hand. Indigo needs to be between 90 and 140F. It will not dye once it goes above 140 but you don't have to go that high. The temperature felt as if it was slightly warmer than I would use for adding a yogurt starter to milk. Then Judith mixed the dye crystals with warm water in a mason jar and stirred to dissolve. It should be a lovely green color below the surface. Judith uses small amounts of <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Rit-Dye-Powdered-Remover-2-Ounce/dp/B00BMLIEOA" target="_blank">Rit dye remover</a> instead of <a href="https://prochemicalanddye.net/thiox.html/" target="_blank">Thiox</a> to remove the oxygen in the water. She just sprinkles a little bit into the jar. Once the crystals are dissolved, she slowly adds the dye to the warm water. She didn't measure anything. She said that a pot like this doesn't require as much care as a pot that one will keep for a long time - adding Thiox every week and making sure the ph is correct. The Rit dye remover is toxic but the quantities are so small that she felt it was OK for a pot that will be exhausted in the day.</div>
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Indigo will only deposit in an absence of oxygen. So stirring, adding and removing items from the pot needs to be done with care. Items need to be lowered gently into the pot and must be removed from the side so they don't drip into the pot. Bubbles of air introduce oxygen which causes the indigo to morph out of the form in which it will deposit. </div>
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Once the dye is added to the pot, Judith adds another sprinkle of the dye remover and then we let the pot sit for about 10-15 mins. Then she puts in a drop of Dawn dish detergent into the pot. This causes the indigo particles that have formed a scum on the surface to move out of the way and the items can be submerged without worrying about getting these particles on the item. The scum is the indigo that has been exposed to the air on top of the dye-pot. In a long-running bath, this *flower* seals the surface and prevents oxygen from getting into the dye solution. It is removed and saved, and then replaced when one is done dyeing for the day. But in a temporary, one-time pot, it doesn't build up enough to become a <i>flower.</i></div>
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Judith added as many items as would fit. A few big items that needed a lot of dye and then some of the smaller items to fill out the pot. Items are left in there for about 20-30 mins with some stirring periodically during that interval. Then the items are removed and are <b>not squeezed</b> as they come out. You want the dye to remain on the fabric. We took the wet items and waved them around, aerating all the surfaces to cause the indigo reaction. If you haven't seen indigo dyeing, the items come out of the dye pot a green color. This is the un-oxygenated version of indigo. When it is exposed to air, it turns blue and deposits on the surface. This is why you don't squeeze the dye out of the item. </div>
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After aerating them for a while, we spread them out on tarps or on the grass and flipped them around every 10 mins or so to continue the aerating process. The indigo will continue to deposit and harden over a period of time. According to one of the experts Judith quoted, the longer you leave the indigo on the item before you rinse it, the longer the color will last. I haven't rinsed any of my items yet. They need to be rinsed till the water runs clear and then ironed.</div>
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I am much more confident of making a one-day temporary pot in which I can dye a number of items and then exhausting it. The bath can be refreshed with more dye dissolved in the mason jar as the day progresses. When the dye concentration comes down, you can re-dye things or use the dye to do a light wash of color on other items. Indigo should be the last dye on the fabric as it doesn't penetrate and bond but sits on the surface of the item. You can dye with acid or natural dyes before you dye with indigo.<br />
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I found <a href="http://www.earthguild.com/products/riff/webbpdfs/wpreinca.pdf" target="_blank">this article at Earth Guild</a> on one-time dyeing. It also clarified a few things for me as I saw the difference between a one-time pot and a multi-use pot.</div>
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We dyed on two days. Some items went in twice and some went in once. The dye pots were a pale blue when we dumped them. If one uses Thiox, one has to add vinegar to neutralize the ph before the pot is emptied. In this case, we used so little Rit dye remover (maybe a tsp per dye pot?) that it didn't affect the ph too much.</div>
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One item that was relevant to me was the process of estimating the yardage of yarn needed for a project like a sweater. </div>
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<li>Use a <a href="https://woolery.com/yarn-balance-calculate-your-yardage.html?gclid=Cj0KCQjwq7XMBRCDARIsAKVI5QZbf0sK6gRStrp904cBaUUEdv5Dbhaubp1zldbpG-Bqxiy9iMisrFUaAheOEALw_wcB" target="_blank">yarn balance</a> to get the yards/lb (YPP) of your yarn</li>
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<li>Divide your project into a series of shapes and estimate the area of each shape. This is easier if you have a schematic. For example, a sleeve is a rectangle with two triangles on either side of it. </li>
<li>Divide the area of your project by the area of your swatch to calculate how many swatches there are in your project (this is needed to get the approximate weight of the whole project). If you have 20 swatches in your project, the weight of the project will be 20x the weight of the swatch.</li>
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Some of the students in the class spun and knit swatches using the dyed and undyed versions of the Merino/Shetland/Manx Loaghtan/silk from <a href="https://www.thehomesteadhobbyist.com/" target="_blank">The Homestead Hobbyist</a>. She showed us how these all go together because they are dyed on the same base. You can see the fiber and the swatches here.</div>
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We also learned to card and comb using Judith's Dutch combs and electric drum carder. I didn't make any batts but others did. </div>
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Judith also brought us items of clothing that she found in thrift shops and the first person it fit got the item. These were beautifully made dresses and shirts in natural fabrics. I got a dark blue linen short sleeved shirt that I used as a smock when we dyed! </div>
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All in all, it was a very inspirational, educational, relaxing, and enjoyable workshop.</div>
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Jayahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07036842744537641157noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2374648938771459245.post-16082251299328536012017-08-07T11:24:00.000-04:002017-08-07T11:24:38.202-04:00At Judith MacKenzie's feet - Part 1<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
I had the opportunity and privilege to take 4 days of classes with Judith MacKenzie last week. It was amazing. The woman really knows everything there is to know about spinning, fibers and weaving. This was a spinning workshop but we discussed using handspun in weaving.<br />
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We started off by making marled yarns. A marled yarn is one that has 2 or more colors in the yarn. A ragg yarn is an example of a marled yarn that has 2 colors. To create these marled yarns, 1 held 3 colors together, parallel to each other. Assuming ! started at the left, they would be color 1, 2 and 3 from left to right. I could start on either side but in our example, 1 started spinning on the left side of color 1 and spun across the width of the fiber. When 1 came to the right side of fiber 1, I continued across the join, spinning a bit from color 1 and from color 2 at the same time. This blends the join. Then I moved across to color 2 and spun across its width. At the join with color 3, I spun again from both and then across color 3.<br />
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I tried a little bit of each, but holding 3 colors was not comfortable. So I tried holding 2 and 1. The issue with holding 1 is that you don't get enough of the transition of blended color. I also tried holding one, then holding two during the transition, and then dropping the first color. I ended up dropping a lot of colors on the floor! I also found it difficult to be consistent in the add/remove direction. I think a written plan and a place to keep the various colors in order close by would help.<br />
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Once you have the singles made this way, you can 2-ply, 3-ply or do other things with them. Some of the people in the workshop made traditional 3 plies. I decided to make a cabled yarn because the colors come out as dots when you do that. I used bright colors for my first attempt. Judith recommended knitting samples with one's spinning - something I rarely do until it is time to actually make something. The purpose of the class was to learn to 'spin for a purpose' so sampling makes sense in this context.<br />
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These were my attempts in class. The long narrow swatch in the middle was done with 2 different needle sizes - a US 3 and a US 4. That was my first attempt. The top swatch was the second and I'll discuss it further below. The skein was my third attempt. It isn't finished so is a bit squirrelly still. Judith's critique was that I am adding too much plying twist so the yarn is hard and dense.<br />
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For my second swatch, I combed 3 colors together and dizzed them off to create 3 similar nests. They weren't all the same as a class mate added some silk to one and I didn't actually plan the colors. I had 3 and I randomly added some of each to each section of top. Then Susan of <a href="http://www.abstractfiber.com/" target="_blank">Abstract Fiber</a> gave me a sample of her Targhee/silk/bamboo to spin. I added that to the bobbin and plied and cabled the singles. The green/yellow colors in the swatch are from her sample. The rest are Ashland Bay standard colors in their merino top.<br />
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As you can see, blending the solids creates a more even color palette without the pops of color that come from the marled yarn. Now, I chose to use a bright pink which dominates my marled yarn but that was because I wanted to see what it would look like. I used less of it in the skein and combined it with some more muted colors. In the swatch, there are 2 brights and they clash - a yellow and the pink.<br />
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I picked out the two solid colors because one can use them as contrast solid stripes in a piece. Cabled yarns are very durable and make good socks yarns as the yarn is rounded and very smooth. Plus the pops of color are interesting. The marling can be adjusted to create self striping yarns for any diameter item. Longer repeats for sweaters and hats, shorter repeats for mitts and socks.<br />
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This was fun! I have some solid colors from other classes at home. I brought home bits and put them all in a bag. I plan to have fun playing with samples this winter using those.<br />
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One of the challenges with spinning this way is that you need to be able to evenly spin across a width of top without it all getting tangled up and uneven. I am pretty good at this but not perfect. I realized that when I was spinning the 2 red braids together. Therefore, I decided to pick Judith's brain and took my top to her to explain the problem and ask what I was doing wrong. My top tends to split into an upper and lower layer and I find it hard to integrate the two.<br />
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She took one look at the piece of fiber and spread it out so there was no folding. The spinning edge was U-shaped and she immediately told me what I was doing wrong. In order to spin evenly across the edge of a combed top, one spins in one place for a while and then moves to the right or left by slightly angling the remaining fiber or the drafting triangle or both. This picks up neighboring fibers and slowly moves in the opposite direction from the tilt. I was not spinning long enough in one spot. One should spin till the staple in that spot is exhausted and then move. This was especially true at the ends, because one gets to the end, spins the current staple and then has to drop down to the next level before going back. I wasn't doing this. That is why my edge was U-shaped.<br />
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I went back and tried what she said and voila! I no longer had the problem. I can't wait to try this on the red braids. I had lots of opportunity to practice this during the workshop so I'll come back to it later.<br />
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Next up, we were introduced to camel top. Judith showed us various ways to spin it and one way she recommended we didn't spin it. That last way was an attentuated long draw as is done for cotton. It takes too much air out of the yarn and creates a dense yarn that reduces the softness of the camel.<br />
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For a change, I went back and created a sample card with all the different ways of spinning it. Actually, it is two cards. The left side is 3-plies and the right side is 2-plies. These are all plied back on themselves so sometimes there isn't enough plying twist. Woolen yarns have less spinning twist and more plying twist to make them stable. That is what traps air in them. So some of the ply-back samples don't have enough twist. Judith adds twist by rolling them on her thigh but I haven't mastered this technique. I tried it but after discussing it with her, I don't think I was pressing hard enough when I rolled.<br />
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I also made a little skein of the semi-worsted draw which I plied in the normal way. I ended up putting it in the indigo dye-pot so I'll show it to you when I discuss that.<br />
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I bought some fiber from <a href="https://www.thehomesteadhobbyist.com/" target="_blank">The Homestead Hobbyist</a>.<br />
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I spun some of this in class and it also ended up in the dye-pot. So you'll see it later. I flew to this workshop and I love traveling light. So I didn't take any fiber with me and that is why I had to start spinning this right away!<br />
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I haven't told you this yet, but I have some cotton spinning in my future. Details at a later date. I bought some of this to try.<br />
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I don't know what I'll do with this but I think I will spin it and then dye it. Let's see.<br />
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I also got some camel from Judith. I think I will end up spinning this from the fold. I love spinning camel top worsted but it isn't the best way to spin such a lovely airy fiber. The semi-worsted way I spun the small skein wasn't as even as I would like. That involved letting twist between the hands but drafting forward short distances. I have some more downs at home and I am more confident about spinning them now.<br />
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I'll stop here for now and continue with the rest of the class in the next post. It might be this week.<br />
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I decided my sweater was not a good travel project so I took one of my handspun skeins and a simple pattern with me on the trip. I managed to finish it between the two travel days and some knitting in class while listening to Judith. I needed to take a break from spinning to rest my hands.<br />
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That was the wound ball before I left.<br />
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This is what it is now. I love it. It is too hot to wear though. It is on the window sill where I can admire it. I call it my Superb Starling shawl because it reminds me of a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superb_starling" target="_blank">Superb Starling</a>.<br />
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Jayahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07036842744537641157noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2374648938771459245.post-42007706056802136992017-07-28T20:43:00.000-04:002017-07-28T20:43:41.885-04:00Tour de Fleece results<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
I am very impressed with my spinning efforts this year. I had two objectives:<br />
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<li>Card and spin the locks I dyed at Rhinebeck last year</li>
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I achieved both and also spun about 1/3 of 2 Fiber Optic braids that didn't quite match. That will get finished in its own time.<br />
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Here are the final results of the Tour de Fleece 2017 for me in pictorial form. The photo represents the state of the spinning at the end of the Tour last Sunday night.<br />
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Since then, I have finished all the yarns except for the partially spun red braid.<br />
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The carded and spun locks made a nice DK-sport weight yarn. It is difficult to capture the actual color as it is a bit darker than this. It either looks black or it looks a bit too bright like this. I am very happy with it. It has a nice hand. It is a bit lumpy and bumpy but not too much.<br />
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I started plying from 3 bobbins, one of which had quite a bit less than the others. When that one ran out, I made a rather large plying bracelet with the larger of the two remaining bobbins and continued spinning a 3 ply. When the bracelet ran out, I used the loop from the end of it to start a chain ply with the last bobbin. Since that was the one where I had started with single color rolags, the chain ply created a single color yarn. You can see that on the coin. The rest of the yarn is marled as the rolags were blended and then they were plied. I am in love with the colors! I also got a lot more yardage than I had thought I would. It is about 132 yards.<br />
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Then I finished the weft yarns for the collapse weave. I wound them on a PVC niddy noddy and soaked them while they were on there and let them dry under tension. This was to control the twist so I can weave without getting pigtails in the weave.<br />
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Lastly, I finished the warp yarns. These were also wound on the PVC niddy noddy and soaked but then I applied a xanthan gum sizing per Sarah Anderson's <i>Spinner's Book of Yarn Design</i>. She recommends 1 tbsp of xanthan gum to 2 cups of water. The water has to be put into a high speed blender and the blender started. Then the gum is dribbled in from the top opening. This way you get an even mixture or <i>goop</i> as we will call it from now on. That is the goop in a plastic container on the counter.<br />
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I had soaked the weft in the bathtub but found it awkward. So this time I brought it down to the utility tub and soaked it there, Then I squeezed out the water as best as I could. I applied 1/4 cup of the <i>goop</i> by hand putting small amounts on each section of the fiber and massaging it in. I squeezed out the excess and ran my hands over the fiber to smooth out any blobs of <i>goop.</i> I left the skein to drip in the tub and then I took it upstairs and stood it up in the guest bathroom sink. I had done this with the weft and I knew that it sat in there very nicely with stability. I was afraid that if I left it in the utility tub, someone would run water over it accidentally.<br />
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I finished the Z-spun warp first and it was dry in 2 days. As it dried, I went by periodically and made sure that strands weren't sticking to each other. I wound this skein as I normally do, tightly. I found that it was difficult separating strands when it was wound so tightly. I had, I also wound it with strands overlapping each other. Fortunately, tied the figure-8 ties loosely. I always do that so that the twist and the water can get in under the ties.<br />
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It is stiff but each strand is separate. Sarah Anderson recommends winding it into a ball which I will do before I warp.<br />
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Today I repeated the process with the S-spun warp. I wound the skein much more loosely and also made sure to lay each strand next to the previous one making sure they didn't overlap. That made it easier to separate the strands after the goop<i> </i>was applied. I will continue to separate them as it dries. It looks exactly like the skein above. I made sure to label the first skein so I wouldn't get them mixed up.<br />
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My plan is to alternate the S and the Z spun warps with the Z-spun threaded more loosely on the heddle and the S-spun threaded at double the density or sett. The relative sizes of these that I found aesthetically pleasing was 1" with the wider sett and 1/2" with the denser sett. I am thinking I will use a 10 dent heddle. I need to calculate how wide and long I can make it now that i know how much yardage i have. I need a wide sett to provide space for the weave to collapse but I also want some structure. I don't want it all to collapse into a crumpled ball!<br />
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This is the look I am aiming for but doing it on both the warp and the weft. In the sample, I only did it in the weft.<br />
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If you look at the top, I have done the 1" loose and the 1/2" dense. The bottom was done with 1" each and I didn't like that. The denser sett reduces the collapse providing the ripples. I am also alternating the S and Z spun warps so that the twist pulls the fabric in opposite directions, again providing some structure.<br />
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But it is all a big experiment so it will be interesting so see how it turns out. Stay tuned!</div>
Jayahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07036842744537641157noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2374648938771459245.post-45258894834295707302017-07-18T17:48:00.000-04:002017-07-18T17:48:48.682-04:00Tour de Fleece 2017 progress<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
It is amazing what you can get done when you are not at work all day!<br />
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I have been spinning every day and as a result have made a lot of progress on a number of fronts. The warp and the weft for the collapse weave project are all spun. I even have a PVC niddy noddy ready to finish the yarn to be ready for weaving (more on that below). I finished this so fast that I added another project to my TdF list this year.<br />
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These are the two halves of the weft. I divided the braid in two so I would get shorter color runs which would ensure that I was able to fit the entire gradient into the project. I can always add more colors from the other half as needed.<br />
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This is the Z spun warp. I am hoping to use just this for the warp but I have a backup plan in case I need more yardage.<br />
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I have some S spun singles from the sampling back in March. I spun some more in the S direction so that I can alternate S and Z spun singles if I need more yardage.<br />
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Next up on these is to set the twist temporarily so that I am able to weave without getting pigtails from the twist. I had a problem with this when I wove the samples. I thought that letting the singles rest would make the twist dormant enough. But it didn't. So now I am going to wind the singles onto a PVC niddy noddy and wet and dry them under tension. Additionally, I will add a sizing to the warp so it will have a bit more strength and will move through the heddle more easily. I am planning to use a xanthan gum solution for sizing. This will wash out when the woven item is wet-finished.<br />
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There is the PVC niddy noddy. I need this because my wood one will absorb the water and could get damaged by the damp. I also took this opportunity to make a 2 yd niddy noddy. My wood one makes 30-32" skeins, not quite 2 yds.<br />
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I also am carding and spinning the locks i dyed. I initially thought I'd keep the colors separate but I prefer to let them get blended or stay separate rather randomly so I am doing it as they come to hand.<br />
I pick, I card, and I spin. Then I repeat. This keeps my hands from getting too sore from one activity.<br />
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A couple of piles of rolags.<br />
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And here's the yarn.<br />
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That is one full bobbin on the left and the second bobbin I started on the right. I am spinning this on the Tina II and loving the process of treadling. I think I am going to keep a carding project going on the Tina II while I spin top on the Hansen.<br />
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Since these are going so fast, I decided to add in a third project. I have these two braids which are both the same red but one is cool and one is warm. Here they are.<br />
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The two braids where you can see the difference. To make sure that they don't clash, I am drafting them together so that the final yarn will have bits of each read blended together.<br />
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This is how I hold the two braids. I divided each braid into 4 width-wise and am holding the entire width of each braid in my hand and drafting.<br />
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Here is one quarter of the project done. This is 2 oz. 1 oz from each braid.<br />
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Lastly, I finished the color gamp Shetland scarf. I wanted to get it done so the loom will be free for the collapse weave project in August.<br />
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I got tired of changing the weft every 1.5" so after doing 1 set of each color, I started doing 4.5" (3x1.5) stripes in the middle. Two sets of those and then a repeat of the 1.5" stripes on the other end. I am in love with the way the Shetland looks and feels in this scarf. I have more of the <a href="http://www.ravelry.com/yarns/library/harris-tweed-textiles-shetland-4-ply" target="_blank">Harris tweed Shetland yarn</a> and I am going to weave more scarves with it.<br />
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I also splurged and bought a lovely new supported spindle. I haven't used it yet but I think that after the Tour de Fleece is done, I am going to spend some time spindling.<br />
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It is from <a href="https://www.etsy.com/shop/mingoasho" target="_blank">Glasspins</a>, by Mingo and Asho. They had a sale on. The glass focal is a red and gold swirl but I love the body. It is bird's eye maple. My favorite wood.<br />
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Next time I hope to show you the finished warp and weft for the collapse weave and even maybe a plied yarn from the locks. </div>
Jayahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07036842744537641157noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2374648938771459245.post-57478801902848936482017-07-02T13:40:00.000-04:002017-07-02T13:40:38.921-04:00Tour de Fleece 2017<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
The Tour de France started yesterday and in parallel, our Tour de Fleece started at the same time. This is the first year I am going to be home for the whole tour and since I recently retired, I am hoping to get a lot of spinning in the next 4 weeks.<br />
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I had a plan for the major project I wanted to do but I didn't work out the details till sometime between Friday and Saturday. I like to learn during the TdF by doing something new to me and over the years I've learned a lot of techniques this way - long draw, ply-on-the-fly, extremely fine spinning, etc. This year's project was to spin for a collapse weave scarf or shawl. Remember all the samples I made? They were to figure out what I wanted to do.<br />
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I have a secondary project that I want to do - spin from the lock with fiber I have processed myself. This is in case I get bored or finish the collapse weave spinning too quickly. Since I am spinning singles for collapse weave, it goes fast. No plying!<br />
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Therefore the first factor in selecting fiber is the objective of the project. The second factor is what equipment I will use. When I travel, I am limited to spindles. Since I am home this year, I can use my e-spinner and my wheel. I am going to do the collapse weave yarn on the e-spinner and the spinning from the locks on the wheel.<br />
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The third factor is what teams I can be on. I try to double up on teams for the same projects :-) This year they are Team Footloose (e-spinner), Teams Fiber Optic and Gorgeous Gradients, and Team DIY and Dye.<br />
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This is the gray Corriedale I bought in New Zealand. I used it for the collapse weave samples and spun a S-twist singles. This time I am going to spin it Z-twist so that I have the option of alternating S and Z twist in the warp. I may not do it or I may. But if I have singles with twist in both directions, I have options. I also have a lot of this so I don't mind giving some of it up to loom waste. :-) This will be the warp for my shawl/scarf.<br />
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I had spun a bit of this before yesterday, but very little. Rather than starting a new project, I thought I'd continue with it and spin singles for the weft. I had split it into two and that is why I was torn about using it. But I decided that it was for the better. If I spin it completely end to end, I am tied to the length of the transitions as they appear. By stripping it vertically, I reduce the length of the color repeats. This means that I will get all the colors in a scarf or, if I end up doing a shawl, I can remove the last color from the second half and weave it in reverse to make a mirror-image shawl. So I'd start with gray (say) and weave to the magenta, Take off the magenta from the other singles and weave back to gray. Or just weave to the blue, remove the magenta from both singles and part of the blue from the second one and weave back to gray. I think it will give me more options. Since I've never done this before, options are good.<br />
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These are the locks I dyed last year at a class in Rhinebeck. I had previously washed the locks so I started the processing with the fleece itself. I am not sure how I am going to handle the colors. I may just let them come as they may or I might try making a self striping yarn.<br />
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This is the first day's spin. The top is what I had done previously. As you can see, it is very little. I wasn't able to spin yesterday till after dinner but I got a bit more than an hour of spinning in.<br />
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I also went to the yarn store and got photos of myself in the zippered hoodie.<br />
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I have made progress on the Grapevine pullover. I am halfway down the first sleeve. I decided to put a band of the lace at around the elbow. I picked a spot where I had the right number of sts for the repeat of the lace and put in an insertion. I will also do the same at the cuff.<br />
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No progress on the weaving. I was busy trying to get all the yard-work done before the heat set in in earnest. And I made it. Now I just have to keep the weeds down by doing a patrol every few days and it doesn't take much time to pull out the ones that have sprouted in the mean time. I think my sage is dying though. It is wilted even though I been watering regularly when it hasn't rained. The rest look good.<br />
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I am going to try and collect some flowers for dyeing in the winter.<br />
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Jayahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07036842744537641157noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2374648938771459245.post-216432317117265482017-06-26T11:23:00.003-04:002017-06-26T11:23:44.057-04:00Turtle-like progress and flowers<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
I have been rather busy with yard work. We had a cool and rainy spring with some warm spells. This sent all the weeds into overdrive so I had weeds everywhere in my flower beds and under trees and shrubs. We have been battling weeds since they grew uncontrolled during our China stay. They all set seed and developed strong runner root systems and therefore we generate a large crop every spring. The key to getting things back into control is a ruthless weeding every spring - to pull up every little weed sprout. Then it is possible to keep the new growth under control over the summer and fall, resulting in fewer runners and seeds for the next spring. It is getting better but things are still a bit weedy in the spring.<br />
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I go around the entire house and remove all the weeds while patrolling already cleared beds for new entrants. It is pretty exhausting in the spring but makes the rest of the year better. It also leaves very little time and energy for fiber crafts.<br />
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I haven't taken photos of the flowers I planted this year yet so you are going to see the spring flowers that are already done and gone.<br />
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I missed most of the lilacs due to really bad allergies. When the trees are flowering, I have to stay indoors because my allergies get really, really bad despite all the medications. But I caught the tail end of the lilacs. I have also got 3 <a href="https://www.springhillnursery.com/product/josee_reblooming_lilac_collection-syringa_josee" target="_blank">Josee re-blooming lilacs</a> growing in pots on the deck. We've had really bad luck with the ends of our lilac hedge. The first and the last 3 plants keep dying. I am trying to see if letting them grow a bit bigger on the deck before planting helps.<br />
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Rhododendrons. I have 3 colors and this is one of my favorites.<br />
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This is the least favorite of the 3 although I still love it. I love all 3 so it is merely ordering the top of the heap. It is peculiar, though, because I usually love purple.<br />
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This is my other favorite. I love the white flowers.</div>
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Spider worts. These are a source of my weeds. They spread their seeds far and wide and I am still finding plants that entrenched themselves in odd places when we were China.<br />
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One of my two azaleas. The others are pink.<br />
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A pink weigela. I also have a darker rose/reddish color.<br />
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I love this combination of colors. The blue of the fescue with the pink creeping thyme and the red of the Japanese maple.<br />
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Tree peonies. My disappointment with these comes from their very short flowering period. But the flowers never disappoint.<br />
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A gratuitous sunset. I've been taking fewer sunset photos this year.<br />
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Blue irises with the last of the azalea in the back.<br />
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Pink herbaceous peonies. I have a white also that wasn't photographed this year.<br />
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The red herbaceous peony flowers with a light flare from the sun. Why is it guaranteed that there will be a heavy rain when the peonies flower? The rain makes them bend over till they are on the ground no matter how much I stake them.<br />
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Siberian Irises.<br />
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We put up a bird feeder this year. I got a squirrel proof one and very carefully positioned it more than 18" away from branches as recommended. One morning we found a squirrel had happily swung a branch close enough to the feeder to grab it - Tarzan style. It was then happily holding on the feeder with one hand and eating with the other. The feeder will close if the squirrel's weight is on the feeder but this way the branch was holding the weight of the squirrel. Smart squirrel!<br />
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We then pruned all those branches so there is a dome now under the tree, as you can see. Our next non-bird visitor was a chipmunk. A chipmunk is light enough that its weight doesn't close the feeder. It just climbed down the wire hanger and was siting and eating. Birds didn't come when the chipmunk was there. My husband took an old metal sheet and bent it and made the baffle you see in the photo. It is unstable and slippery and is far enough from the feeder that the chipmunk hasn't climbed down over it. I've seen the little guy on the tree and down on the ground foraging for dropped seeds. But I haven't see it on the feeder so I think we've baffled it. Let's see.<br />
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The birds keep me busy filling the feeder every few days. They love it.<br />
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I started weaving the <a href="https://www.craftsy.com/blog/2014/07/how-to-weave-a-color-gamp/" target="_blank">color gamp</a> scarf in squares, which is the traditional thing to do. But I got tired of changing colors that frequently. So after doing one set of squares, I switched to rectangles. Each rectangle is 3x the height of the square. After two sets of rectangles, I will end with a set of squares so the ends match.</div>
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Here is a rectangle and a half.<br />
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I found it easier to knit in between other things. I finished the body of my <a href="http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/grapevine-3" target="_blank">Grapevine</a> and have started on a sleeve. I've modified it to add the lace at the bottom and will add lace cuffs. I am debating throwing in a band of lace further up on the sleeve too.<br />
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I also, unusually for me outside of Rhinebeck, bought some fiber. <a href="https://www.etsy.com/shop/JulieSpins?ref=hdr_shop_menu" target="_blank">Juliespins</a> had a sale and I bought 2 braids from her. This one is called Fig Tree.<br />
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This one is Fushimi Shrine. I tried to buy some colors that were not my usual saturated choices.<br />
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<a href="https://www.etsy.com/shop/inglenookfibers" target="_blank">Inglenook fibers</a> dyed a couple of colorways for the Tour de Fleece and I bought a batt from them. You can see the inspiration photo on the bag. I probably won't spin it in this year's Tour de Fleece but maybe next year. My plans for this year are pretty well set.</div>
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The CSA farm season has started. We had a few weeks of great strawberries. We picked more than my husband could eat and I can't ear fresh strawberries due to an allergy. So I make these <a href="https://smittenkitchen.com/2014/05/strawberry-rhubarb-crisp-bars/" target="_blank">strawberry crisp bars</a> which we love. I am on the third and last batch this week. I think it is now too hot for strawberries. I eat raspberries and blueberries fresh so I don't bother making these with those fruits.<br />
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