Soapmaking efforts

I have had a wonderful weekend with a visiting good friend.
Time is always to short if you have good company.
We talked a lot and among things also about soapmaking and I promised to make a shampoo bar for her.
What the heck was I thinking?
I wanted to do this one hot process so I gathered my stuff and got going.

The Trace stadium looked good to me.

I peeked at 15 minutes and I had my crockpot on hot!

I could already see that it was browning on the sides, but I thought that was part of the process.

Here you can see that is what was kind of burning.
So the crockpot went on low.

After an hour I put my mixture in the moods, but look at how it looks!
It looks like scrambled eggs!

So I have taken a shower with the bar and I have to say......

It worked. My hair is stil wet so I don't know what it looks like when it has dried up, but it feels nice. 

The latter was amazing. We have very soft water and the you get more lather too.

I will keep you updated and I might send her the shampoo bars after all.

Yesterday and today I have knit knight and as you all know I cannot knit because of my tennis elbows. 

I can do Inkle Loom weaving though so yesterday I started with a double weave project and it looked better on the back then on the front.

Have to work on that then!

Here are the pictures. The pattern is from Laverne Waddington.

This is the front

and this is the back. You see the pattern better on the backside.

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Everything and nothing.

Hope you all had a great Valentines day.
We went to the movies yesterday and it was a long time ago I saw a crap movie like that, DeadPool.
Suppositely a good movie and I think I was the only one in the theater that has these thoughts.


I thought I've found a new awesome APP for blogging that everybody on the internet raved about!
Well I'm highly disappointed.
I wrote and posted pictures and everything just to find out now that nothing has been saved!
You understand that I'm not a happy camper at the moment.
I try to remember what it was that I wrote about and I can't recall everything.
Well I will have to try to do my best to make a good one now!

Last Wednesday I had to go to knit night here in town and my arms where hurting so no knitting for me.
So I decided to put on a new project with band/strap weaving.
With the tutorial from Laverne Waddington I finally got the hang of it.
This pattern is from her E-book Andean Pebble Weave that you can find here.
And... I didn't do bad as I may say so.
The beginning hard to get and it just got better and better.
I think I have the hang of it now.

I'm in a group on Facebook about Inkle Loom weaving and sometimes it's not good to have a look there. 

So many beautiful things that I, of course, must master.

Next project I started is double weave.

You can do double weave with tablets too and that looks like this:

But I had my mind set up for double weave with heddles.

You can find a lot of tutorials on Laverne Waddington her website.

Last week I also ordered some very thin cotton and it came in the mail and started a project. 

Didn't go that smooth in the beginning and nothing does in the beginning, right?

I didn't like the long threads at the back of the strap so tonight I will take the old one of and set up a new, wider one. 

Here, I'm just playing!

Then I decided to go a bit bigger but I made the mistake of making to little threads. 

So I guess I'll put up another on that one too. 

Maybe I'll do that one backstrap. 

The only thing I don't like about backstrap is that I can only to this in the basement. 

Let's call this embedded double weave. 

This is Memphis btw! 

Annoying me to no end, sitting in front of my screen, on my 

keyboard and chasing me typing on the screen.

I love to try out new techniques so until next time!

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Workshop

How time flies!!!

Yesterday it was a week ago that we started the workshop spinning and dyeing.

We have had a marvelous, productive week with beautiful weather, good food and good company

Our participants has done a lot of different things like felting, dyeing with different methods, weaving and even how to learn to spin.

We have also visited Klässbols Linen Mill and the ladies loved it. 

We went on a saturday and the machines were not running so it was nice and quiet and we had all the time of the world to admire the work.

Shopping in Arvika was also one of the events on the agenda and you have a lot of small second hand shops and the ladies bought a lot of weaving cloths.

In the evenings we chatted and knitted and sometimes span as well on the veranda with a good glas of wine. 

I had a fantastic week and if you want a week like this as well. Just let me know!

A small photo impression!!

Enjoying the view

Lunch at Olssons Brygga in Arvika

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