Exploring weaving

A month before Christmas my grandson discovered a new way of weaving in a children's book. He was very excited about this idea. So on the first morning of the grandkids' holiday with me this summer we made looms and began weaving. We'd woven several times before but never with a loom. The next morning they finished. Just look at the concentration.

The shoe boxes with iceblock sticks worked well for the older two..

 A couple of weeks later the oldest sent me this photo with the message "Hi nana, I designed and made it all by myself!" What amazing creativity.

Bunny

A spinning group I belong to chooses a different fibre each year for its members to experiment with. In 2015 the fibre was bunny
Two years ago I had a love affair with bunny. I was given two "fleeces" and I happily played with them, discovered mouse nests and sorted them by length into various boxes. I spun them into beautiful yarn for hats for small children and added bunny fibre to felted berets. Please see posts June 2013 . When I was offered some bunny I thought fine, that won't be too hard, I've done it before. But it was. In the meantime I had fallen heavily for Gotland curls. We've been together for over a year and there's no sign of the relationship ending. I coped with the first sample by adding Gotland curls as bunny tails. 

I forced myself to do a second sample many months later. It was supposed to be bunny whiskers. Fibres are my play time. It made no sense to force myself to spin a fibre I didn't relate to. I made a really bad job of it. The day after I'd knitted a sample of bunny whiskers I was back to my beloved Gotland.

Fingerless gloves

It's many months since I posted - now I'm in catchup mode. The wool I spun in the previous post became super warm fingerless gloves with a border spun from Gotland locks. I was lucky to be given some Gotland fleeces and I'm in love with their curls.