Most weekends, our Saturdays are a either a time to catch up on reading and resting, or a time to catch up on various things undone during the week. Sometimes they are a varied mixture of both.
Today was the first day of the school holidays (yay!). There’s a Knot Fibre Festival going on in our town at the moment, so we went down to try our hand at the workshops (free!) today – there are more on next week, the details of which you can find here.
Today we made paper, weaved, knotted, and even tried a bit of knitting. That’s something I could never figure out in school, but I managed to get some basics today 🙂
Littlest bean and I did some papermaking while hubby tried his hand at macrame.
Littlest bean made white paper, with a starfish/sealife watermark. The paper was all made from cotton rag, blended with water. The watermark is made by attaching a wire design to the mesh of the mould and deckle, so the paper is thinner and shows the light.
I used a yellow pulp, with a flower design.
The green blob is a shell mould – the same paper is used, but compressed into the mould. I didn’t place the first pieces of paper in as well as I should, so my shell has a crease across the top.
I was most pleased with my “scarf” – a piece of finger knitting which is long enough to be a scarf, but not very wide. We weren’t sure of the best way to do this – I was trying to explain a page I’d found here, and not doing very well with my explanation. We ended up googling the page and following the instructions – easy, and rather addictive… it only took me around half an hour (possibly less) to make the above length. Looking forward to getting rainbow colours for the rainbow scarf 🙂
If you’re looking for something to do this week, check out the Knot Fibre Festival Textile Tasters. I’m hoping to try a few more…
1000 Fields of Roses 
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