Category: Charlotte Wrap
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The Charlotte Wrap
Estimated reading time: 3 minutes I’m done at last! From my original inspiration of Paul Klee’s The Messenger of Autumn to a finished wrap this has been a fun creative journey! Though I scraped my plans for a marled moss stitch point to side wrap with inset flowers pretty quickly,…
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End weaving continues
Estimated reading time: 2 minutes First, a warning. The Shingrix vaccine is serious business. I want to believe I would be much farther (Side note: I like the word farther. I think it is underused. I’m going to use it here even though it seems to be a bit contested…
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The edges take shape
Estimated reading time: 2 minutes I have finished the main body of the wrap! For a minute, I thought the end points were going to be different, but no. I did it correctly. I am so very pleased with it and myself. The majesty of the unwoven ends is a…
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No more frogging, but the ends are piling up
Estimated reading time: 2 minutes I am over halfway done with this project! It turned out the last attempt is the final form for this wrap, and I am quite happy to have hit upon it and overjoyed with how it is going. Behold the number of ends I have…
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A frogging we will go!
Estimated reading time: 5 minutes Oh Harbinger of Autumn, how you vex me! I had such dreams of the perfection I would create only to have those visions smashed by the reality of my own shortcomings! I have been frogging and reworking and frogging and getting very frustrated. I think…
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A wrap takes form
Estimated reading time: 3 minutes I continued the story but departed the text! No simple stripes! No neat fade! Nope. Not for me. I’m doing my own thing inspired by Paul Klee’s work entitled The Harbinger of Autumn. I like the different shades of purple and blue and the bright…
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Too much time to plan is a dangerous thing
Estimated reading time: 5 minutes I have to make a wrap and make it fast. Because I am a fussy little princess about yarn, I have to wait for the yarn to come in the mail, taking up precious time, so I’m planning while I wait. What I know is…
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