Adelheid in the SCA

I have a proto sister! This is an SCA thing. In order to welcome her into the fold, I decided to make her a gift. We had just traveled to a class based event, where I had the chance to talk as many things språng in about 55 minutes with my teacher. During this time, she showed me a pouch that she made. What a nice gift for proto-sis. I am seeing some progress. Warping is coming easier, manipulating threads more naturally, and I successfully chained across the middle. I feel like an advanced beginner! Here's the piece on the loom. I love how things look on the loom. This is again 1 under 3, a simple interlink. But with the colour warp, the white row looks spectacular. It was good to finally succeed with the chaining. It's not that it's difficult to do, but after just tying warps in the middle of stich patterns, it's nice to work on some finishing. Of course I forgot to take a photo of the final product, which I call a Halima pouch, but it looked pretty good.

The newest technique I have learned is the interlink 1 under 3 technique, and I'm a believer. It's all the simplicity of interlinking with a little more snug in the fabric. I did up some test warps, and am slightly improving with regard to using sticks/needles for when the finger space gets too small. The instructor said it was time to make a hat! I made a terrible hat, and although I could save it with a nalbound brim, I thought no. No! The big mistake I made was in doing too many warps and then, because they were all bunched up, I couldn't see the stands and of course there was an error in the foundation row. There's just no saving that, especially when the upside of this technique is not requiring any fussing for finishing the loops. From the top down - beret style - I'm happy with that. It's not bad, but I can do better. Here's a good photo of 1 under 3.