During this first hot spell of summer, I am making good progress on the huck fabric for the lunch tote. \u00a0This photo was taken a few days ago, when I reached the end of the yard of fabric for the tote. \u00a0Now I’ve woven two of the five napkins that are also on this warp.<\/p>\n
And I’ve finally had a space of time (without visitors!) when I could concentrate on my chopstick portrait. \u00a0This is a recent idea of Archie Brennan. \u00a0At our monthly Wednesday Group meetings we get Chinese take out after class on the first day. \u00a0Over the years this has added up to a lot of chopsticks. \u00a0He and Susan have washed and saved all the chopsticks, and Archie was wondering how they could be re-purposed. \u00a0He ended up making little chopstick looms for each member of our group, and he set an assignement to weave a portrait.<\/p>\n I decided to attempt a face from ancient Greek red figure pottery. \u00a0This particular face happens to be Artemis. \u00a0In the image of her on a 5th century BC, lekythos, she has drawn her bow and is focused on her target.<\/p>\n The main reason I chose this portrait was to have fun with the hair! So I put in Ghiordes knots every pass and a half which allowed for the knots to be on alternating warps. \u00a0Then I braided the long strands and played around putting her hair up in various ways. \u00a0I did not want to sew her hair in place, but that may become necessary.<\/p>\n This project was so much fun I want to make another…..another Greek subject in honor of Archie…. wait and see!<\/p>\n Yesterday I spent the day sewing a mock up of the lunch tote so I’ll be ready to sew when I finish this fabric….the fabric is on hiatus until after Convergence where I’ll pick up one more spool of 16\/2 linen for weft from Lone Star Looms. \u00a0That’s a story not worth repeating….but suffice it to say that I have made three attempts from two different sources to get enough weft for this project!<\/p>\n Naturally, I could not find any fabric that was a spot-on equivalent to my handwoven linen. \u00a0I opted for a heavy cotton duck fabric. \u00a0It’s considerably more tightly woven than my huck fabric, but it should be pretty similar after I fuse interfacing to the back of my fabric. \u00a0Hope so, anyway!<\/p>\n This is the lining, with pockets…..turned right side out for a better view.<\/p>\n And here is the almost finished bag. \u00a0I’m still hunting for the purse snaps that are well hidden somewhere in my stash of notions, before I stitch the final top of bag together….<\/p>\n Now that I’ve worked out how the bag will be sewn (and hopefully made all my mistakes!) I am looking forward to making the ‘real’ tote out of these fabrics.<\/p>\n![\"2014-07-04](\"http:\/\/www.argoknot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/2014-07-04-15.25.28.jpg\")
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