{"id":123,"date":"2014-05-28T20:06:09","date_gmt":"2014-05-28T20:06:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spindizzy.net\/weaving-blog\/?p=123"},"modified":"2015-01-26T14:58:07","modified_gmt":"2015-01-26T14:58:07","slug":"fabric-for-a-gladstone-bag","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spindizzy.net\/weaving-blog\/archives\/123","title":{"rendered":"Fabric for a Gladstone Bag"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>This is a project that has been lurking with intent for more than a year now, since I fell for the Gladstone Bag in “Carry me<\/a>” .\u00a0\"\"<\/a><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

At the beginning of the year, I got all the bag hardware from \u00a0U-handbag<\/a><\/span>\u00a0but an oversight in clicking the purchase forms left me with red handles and the brown\/black\/white fabric from my yarn stash wasn’t going to work out (Of course I could have got more handles, but where’s the fun in that!). The project sat around for a while longer.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

This month I spotted some interesting wool, cones of singles for weaving in lovely tweedy colours from Jamieson’s (Shetland)<\/a>\u00a0 and took my red handles to visit a friend who had a Jamieson’s shade card! 3 cones in Sholmit(grey), Ruby and Moorland speedily arrived, weaving drafts were studied and the loom warped up with a bit of e\"\"<\/a>ach colour for samples.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

Unfortunately my brain went on holiday, and I threaded for sample A, with the colour sequence of sample B. Bother … project went on hold for another week or so while I tried to decide the easiest way to fix the mistake.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

Last weekend, I pulled out alternate warp threads and rethreaded them to change the colour order. Finally, I took today off work today to recover from \u00a0“Amazed by Science” on Sunday at Jodrell, and wove off the first set of samples.\"\"<\/a><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

These are various shadow weaves. The warp set was ~15epi ( I have a metric reed so it was really 60ends\/10cm) which looked about right for \u00a0a plain weave. There are quite a few patterns and colour combinations tested here … some are just too subtle. It looks like the Ruby\/Sholmit colour combination is the best here.\"\"<\/a><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

This sample is very open, but the yarn it tight spun and oiled, when test washed some of it, it fluffed and filled a fair bit. So the sample needed \u00a0good wash to see whether the set was right.<\/span><\/em>
\n Cue a Runrig CD and a few gaelic tweed waulking \u00a0songs while I gave the sample a good thrashing to full it. The piece that started as 14 x 32cm ended up 11.5 x 28cm.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

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Here we are post-washing. It has potential and is about the right heft for a scarf (but a bit too scratchy for that) but could doing with a bit more solidity for a bag, though I might try it with the interfacing to check.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

(Or I could send it back to the wash for another few Runrig tracks.)<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

SampleB next, I want to try some twills…and here they are:<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n


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