The FFF that keeps on FFFing

 Fabric, Fiber, and Fighting (and sometimes Fencing and Feasting) is an event that I've held very close to my heart since I first joined Nithgaard in 2005.  With our dwindling population, we were lucky to have ACG step up to the plate and start hosting it for us a handful of years ago.  This year I was able to go just as an observer and had the absolute time of my life, nerding out with dear friends.

I took a couple of classes, the first one being by my friends Ethne, Fede, and Elena about hand sewing, and the second one about inkle weaving. I jumped through a couple of others (like how to make a loom out of a random branch!) but mostly sat back and wove and cackled my ass off.

 

 

Never being one to shy away from a challenge, I strung up this 40 card pattern with the smallest silk I had with me that was leftover from an old weaving project.  I realized after a couple of passes that I somehow had the pattern inside-out thanks to Mahin staring at it and Phiala doing her card-flip-fu (and Marian just cheering me on from behind her knitting).  Ultimately I decided I hated the color combination, but appreciated the challenge.  It's sitting in the corner of my sewing room behind the other two looms.  The last of them being bought at this event and being strung up as soon as I got home.  But that will be its own post.