gemma.sewn.together

can't figure out how to put in more than one photo per bit of writing.
potatoes chitting in their little house.

went to the allotment today. greenhouse and shed still standing so the badger effigy seems to have done his job of work over the winter. Have nice new fence-on-a-roll to put up when ground has thawed, so we can keep his brothers OUT.

So now I thought I'd do squares, some completely red and some all the other colours in stripes and then I can sew the squares together in a non-rug shaped rug for our extremely cold bathroom.
I measured how long a piece will do a row on this many pegs and then I'm going to sew all the stips together so that I can have neat stripes.
Instructions I've read just suggest weaving all the ends in, but some of my scraps are so short I'm worried the whole thing will fall apart.

Here is what i did last night. I planned for my first peg loom rug to be bold red with some narrow stripes of other colours. A lot of the scraps and old clothes I found stretched the 'red' idea.

Slippers that I'm trying to finish because my charity shop find are being held together with gaffa tape. They were/are a prototype(technical term) for 'gemma textiles', but the shape needs refining and they're bloody hard to sew together.

Going public to an empty audience

Planning what I want to include on my new blog is a great way to think about new beginnings for 2010.

There are so many projects that I've been dreaming about starting for too long, I'm going to use this blog as a diary for progress and to get the best out of the amazing community of crafters that is invisibly out there being busy and productive.

There won't be any photos yet because I want to wait for good light and we are in a foggy wet gloom in Hastings.

I have today finished threading up my new peg loom, and tomorrow I will sort through my charity shop bag and stock of fabrics to make a small experimental rug. I do hav screaming from upstairs and angry shouts, baby has a nosebleed from bouncing on the sofa, cold flannel and comforting words e a pattern book of traditional American hook  rug patterns which I was considering using, but I suppose I will stick to some simple and bold stripes for my first attempt.

I have today knitted two row of my mixed yarn skirt. I'm calling it the 'sampler' skirt because I'm constructing it in rectangular panels of different knit stitches to be joined together in the round at the hip, with triangular panels in a simple lace stitch fitting between the rectangles holding the whole design together. When I have some images I'll blab on about the UPCYCLED yarn.

baby runs in whimpering for a cuddle and whines to sit on my knee. bedtime. 

There will be sewing. And pictures of project, but now I have to do something more important, elsewhere.