Inside & outside

I finished weaving KM & SB’s custom baby wraps today. With a cottolin warp for both and a cottolin weft for KM, the amount of lint under my loom was intense! Seemed to me to be far more than for cotton. If you look closely, you can see that the slits in my treadles are even filled with lint!

My little Kenmore vacuum cleaner did a great job of sucking up all that lint. Then on to the sewing machine for hemming, then the washer & dryer. Next up is pressing & labeling. They’ll be ready to mail on Monday, for sure!

Yesterday I got the colors & quantities calculated & the ordered the yarn for 4 more custom wraps and 3 baby blankets – 1 custom and 2 not.

Today I remembered that I’m almost out of gift bags and needed to sew more before my next show, which is only a handful of weeks away. So I went to my stash of pillowcases and got a load of them washed & hung on the line to dry. I like this shot that’s more shadows of the pillowcases than the fabric itself.

You know, sometimes a simple question leads to a rather ‘duh’ moment. At least that happens for me. Ever since I started selling my weaving I’ve packaged each piece in a bag that I’ve made from repurposed pillowcases. I get 3 or 4 from a pillowcase, depending on the size of the pillowcase. Most of my customers comment positively on the bags.

I was talking to my sister recently and told her that the baby wraps don’t get a gift bag. “Why not?” she asked. “Because I’d have to make special ones that were big enough”, I answered. She said, “Why not just use a whole pillowcase? That’d be easy.” My reply was a long, “Ummmmm…” So I’m going to do that from now on. I don’t know what my moms will think of them, but I guess I’ll find out.