Okay…
… now what do I do with it?
Here it is.
Reminiscent of Cookie Monster or some other such Muppet, I’ve woven this sample with leftover placemat warp.
Not sure what to do with it.
Not really sure what it is.
Or even what it could be.
You see, during the Avoca-Yarn-Acquisition-Fever, I had occasion to wander into the weaving mill. Quite mesmerizing to watch. Equally fascinated by a machine cutting off selvedges from the woven fabric on the automatic loom.
Ah surely something could be done with ‘em, right?
Seems a shame to waste ‘em, eh?
Certainly a creative type could make use of ‘em, huh?
Wonder if they’d let me take ‘em, so?
At that moment, Yarn-Acquisition-Fever turned into Selvedge-Recycling-Frenzy and I was after the shop manageress to see if I could do them a good turn and take that waste off their hands. Very accommodating was she and my boot was tightly packed with industrial sized bags of the stuff. And feeling quite earth-friendly, I took them home…
…where they now sit awaiting their creatively recycled fate.
Hmm, with an interesting warp, these could be transformed into very-cool-scarf-wear.
Or maybe knit on super-jumbo needles.
Don’t want to revisit the fun-fur phase, though.
Any ideas?
They look like they could be woven or knit into lovely little rugs. I love all the bright colours together, and they could be just the thing to spice up a small or dark room. Your scarf idea is cool too, if they’re nice and soft.
26 Feb 2008 at 10:36 pm
I don’t know how big your pieces are but you could always make several in squares or rectangles and then join them in a quilt. Making squares of each color?
26 Feb 2008 at 11:12 pm
Well, they’re gorgeously photographed. They look like feathers!
My mother always used to put a placemat under the lamps on the end tables, and under the bowl of fruit on the dinner table; the selvedges look like they’d weave up into very colorful mats for that sort of thing. Or coasters!
26 Feb 2008 at 11:15 pm
I, too, immediately thought of rugs — whether the rag-rug type that are braided and coiled or knotted or a patchwork type that is made up of varicolored squares of the place mat type of woven squares. What a treasure to recycle something and maybe sell it elsewhere? You could also maybe make rustic wall tapestries… the possibilities are endless…
27 Feb 2008 at 12:00 am
Can you join them into a rug? That’s what the photo looks like to me.
27 Feb 2008 at 12:04 am
Oh… a lovely colourful tea cosy! An incredible rag rug! A to die for trivet (did I spell that right?) Some wake you up with a smile on your face slippers!
I think the possibilities are as endless as the colours are!
27 Feb 2008 at 4:52 am
What about a rag rug bowl? (using the cording) The colors together are fabulous and i love the light airy texture.
27 Feb 2008 at 5:06 am
funny all those colours…it is true that they look like feathers. I would make a bag of them…a bit like the one I just saw on Helene’s blog…http://de-fil-en-aiguille.blogspot.com/
27 Feb 2008 at 10:28 am
I’d stick to the monster thing - they would make incredibly cute amigurumi monsters
27 Feb 2008 at 10:48 am
I could see them as a rug as well, but also as a shawl of some sort. I am sure of one thing…what ever you decide to do with the, it will be creative and becoming.
27 Feb 2008 at 11:15 am
Bathmats.
27 Feb 2008 at 9:45 pm
Could you spin them with some wool and make a funky yarn? This may be bordering on fun-fur…
28 Feb 2008 at 1:39 am
My first thought was rug too. And so was my second. And my third? You guessed it. RUGS!
01 Mar 2008 at 8:40 pm
There are weaving supply stores here in the US that sell selvedges from fabric mills!! Love the colors of yours! They would make excellent coasters, trivets, placemats….just depends on the size.
Have fun with them.
05 Mar 2008 at 6:43 pm