The fabric of this wool flatcap was woven on a rigid heddle loom. Warp yarns were bits and ends left over from various knitting projects, while the weft was recycled sweater yarn. The lining was made from a silk shirt.
Handwoven Flatcap
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Tag Archives: recycled yarn
Handwoven Wool Blanket
This blanket was woven in three separate panels on a rigid heddle loom and stitched together. All yarn was unraveled from thrift store sweaters and dyed using various natural dyes. Also featured in this image is the recycled-bedsheet braided carpet.
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Sliding Tiles Blanket
When I first started learning how to use natural dyes, I split about three recycled sweaters’ worth of yarn into 20g skeins so that I could dunk them into whatever dyes I wanted to experiment with. After about a year or so of that, I figured I had to do something with all those sample …
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Handwoven Scarves
I recently acquired an @ashford_wheels_looms rigid heddle loom and I’ve gotten somewhat addicted to turning some of the recycled dyed yarn stash into scarves. I’ve already sold the second one from the top of the stack but the rest are still available and incredibly cozy! View on Instagram
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Mowgli’s Dog Sweater
I had some leftover yarn from the last sweater and I couldn’t resist making Mowgli a tiny dog sweater… There were some unique fit challenges involved in the design of this one, and I got to try out some new steek finishing techniques without risking a whole human sweater. I’ve never had to worry about the …
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Garden-dyed handknit sweater
In 2021 I made a first attempt at growing dye plants. While I succeeded at getting both a weld and a woad crop, I made an unfortunate oversight during the woad vat reduction and I saw no garden blue this year…which made it all the more gratifying to have results from the weld. This yarn …
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Handknit Luna Pullover
The latest naturally-dyed-recycled-yarn wonder. Acorn + iron on 50/50% wool/yak and 70/30% angora/nylon. #lunapullover by @anna_dandelion, an admirably clever design. View on Instagram
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Kerleva Sweater
My friend Rachel and I co-designed and knit this sweater with a mix of recycled and new yarn. We learned lots about writing and grading knitting patterns, and hope to someday actually finish writing the pattern so that others can knit it.
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Blue Hour
A very simple design handknit with recycled merino.
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