Customers' Gallery
A place where you can show off your creations constructed with fiber
from Sojourner Design. Please contact me if you would like
to post a photo and comments about your creation here.
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Lace Shawl 2/07
Maureen McGuinness
Maureen, an
accomplished weaver and knitter, completed this 24" by 70" lace shawl
on size 4 needles with just under 3 skeins of Laceweight Lambie in
Dusty Sage. If you have any questions she'd be happy to answer
them; email her here.
Scarff 2004
Dorien Miller
Knit with less than one skein of A Bit of Gleam
Elsie's Socks
These socks were knitted for me by Elsie in McCarthy in New Hampshire using my sock
yarn. She knitted them on her circular sock knitting machine.
Elsie can turn out a pair of socks like these in well under one hour!
Felted Vest 1/07
Diane Roeder
Sojourner Design
This vest started with needle-felted yardage.
I had sent a mixture of white and brown/gray fleece from my flock to
Stonehedge Fiber Mill to be processed into needle-felt. I
prepared the yardage by fulling it carefully in my washing machine,
then painting it in several steps with Pro Chem Lanaset Dyes in blue
and magenta hues. It took a huge amount of dye as the felt is
fairly thick. I cut out my pieces using a commercial vest
pattern; next, I machine-quilted the pieces with metallic thread.
Concerned about whether I had fulled the felt enough and how
strong it would be, I decided to apply a layer of iron-on interfacing.
Now it was time to
prepare the lining fabric. I vat-dyed some white silk yardage
using Pro Chem Sabracron Fiber Reactive Dyes (first time dyeing
silk, and I was quite pleased with the results). I cut out my
pattern pieces and laid them out on the kitchen table.
Here's the fun part: I painted the dyed fabric lining using Dye-na-Flo by Jacquard
(see the dark
blue splotch in the close-up shot) and Lumiere paints by
Jacquard (the metallic gold and bronze designs). The Lumiere was
applied using a small sponge as well as a stamp created with an onion
bag.
Next came
construction of the vest. The vest and lining were sewn together
with wrong sides together, then the edges were enclosed in bias strips
cut from Ultrasuede.
Done!
Bag 1/07
Diane Roeder
Sojourner Design
This bag was constructed using
one skein of my Big Lambie yarn, based on the directions for the Squashy
Bag which appear in the book, One-Skein Wonders edited by Judith Durant
(Storey Publishing, 2006).
I fulled it in the washing
machine (actually ran the cycle twice), stuffed the bag with newspaper,
and air-dried it next to the wood stove. The little do-dad tied
to the strap was created by using my Janome Xpressions embellsher to
needle-felt some of my dyed rovings and locks of fleece.
An easy project for a Perpetually-Beginning Knitter.
Ruglets 1/07
Diane Roeder
Sojourner Design
I wove these four
sample rugs (they're only about one foot long) for two reasons: to
become acquainted with my new-to-me Glimakra loom, and to try out a few
prototypes for future full-size rugs. I used one-ply wool that
was spun from several flocks in Massachusetts including my own. I
had hand-dyed the yarn in two batches; shades of orange and shades of
purple.
Send me a photo of your project created with fiber from Sojourner Design!