{"id":70,"date":"2012-03-26T20:22:05","date_gmt":"2012-03-26T20:22:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spindizzy.net\/weaving-blog\/?p=70"},"modified":"2012-03-26T20:22:05","modified_gmt":"2012-03-26T20:22:05","slug":"olympic-cushions-for-woolsack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spindizzy.net\/weaving-blog\/archives\/70","title":{"rendered":"Olympic Cushions for Woolsack"},"content":{"rendered":"

I have finally and belately got to work on my Woolsack Cushions. \u00a0The Woolsack project \u00a0at\u00a0http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/groups\/woolsack2012\/<\/a> aims to: \u00a0… “make a cushion from British Wool as a personal gift for each athlete competing in the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games”<\/p>\n

Getting the loom empty was the first challenge, knitting a lace shawl for a new baby in the family ate some more time, but finally I’m properly underway. SOme of the wool is shetland contributed to the Woolsack project by a smallholder near Buxton, the bluey grey colours are especially nice. \u00a0The dark brown is from a huge Zwartbles fleece ( nice pictures at this site\u00a0http:\/\/beechhay.com\/sheep.asp<\/a> ) and the white from shetland and various unknown breeds of sheep that I had samples of.<\/p>\n

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Rosie "minding" the cleaned Zwartbles fleece<\/p><\/div>\n

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Washing the fleece is the first step – not helped my Rosie who thinks that she is so beautifully colour coordinated with the Zwartbles wool, that it’s HERS!<\/p>\n

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New weaving for Woolsack Cushions (top)<\/p><\/div>\n

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But I finally parted Rosie from her woolly bed, and got weaving, the pattern is supposed to be a little more star shaped, but we’ll see how it washes. And whether it looks better from the top or bottom. I’ve roughly 2 cushion lengths done now, 2 or 3 to go and hope to get them to the Cheshire Guild of Weavers, Spinners and Dyers stuffing event.<\/span><\/p>\n

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The underside of the woven cloth<\/p><\/div>\n

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I have finally and belately got to work on my Woolsack Cushions. \u00a0The Woolsack project \u00a0at\u00a0http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/groups\/woolsack2012\/ aims to: \u00a0… “make a cushion from British Wool as a personal gift for each athlete competing in the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[26,25,15,24],"class_list":["post-70","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-woolsack-cushions","tag-campaign-for-wool","tag-cushions","tag-handweaving","tag-woolsack"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spindizzy.net\/weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spindizzy.net\/weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spindizzy.net\/weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spindizzy.net\/weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spindizzy.net\/weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/spindizzy.net\/weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77,"href":"https:\/\/spindizzy.net\/weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70\/revisions\/77"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spindizzy.net\/weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spindizzy.net\/weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spindizzy.net\/weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}