Author: Cissi_555
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The forest green weave
Here is a sneak preview of the forest green belt that I am working on now. I took the opportunity to try some new variations of my leaf designs.
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The Fire and water belt.
The belt I talked about in my last blog post is finally finished. I am happy with how the gradient turned out and I had quite some comments on the “fire” aspect. I like how the fire is flanked by “water” from the blue border. I have also been drawing quite a few alternative designs…
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Using colour gradients
I have been playing with colour gradients more and more in my weaving projects and I wanted to add a post on the material I use to achieve them. I recently posted on a belt I am currently weaving, where I use 6 shades of yellow/orange. I don’t like making any publicity, but I still…
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A new weave – and new designs
I started this weave last week and I do like the colors. A sneak preview below… I will add more photos as I progress.
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More bags and wired looking weaving.
Today I finished off 2 things: 1) a small backpack made from scrap fabric and an old tablet woven belt (one of my first). I quite like it!! 2) then I tried to save my 54 cards weaving project by cutting out the brown tread (making it a 3 hole weave). But it still looks…
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Some more sewing, and some weaving experiments.
I made this Viking style bag. It the outside is blue wool and the inside red/purple linen. I used an old belt I have woven for the strap and a piece for decoration. I used some wood from my garden for the bag handles. I like how it turned out. And then I have experimented…
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Some more new designs.
I finally finished this piece. I was happy to try a lot of new designs, but I am not happy with the result. It is too crowded, I have a hard time to leave enough space between designs. I will try to do better next time. Anyway, some pictures below.