The demo/teaching thing

I did the demo/teaching thing referred to in the last post.  Most people took their braids, but a few were left behind, or were ones I did as part of teaching and demoing.

I mostly taught people the 5-strand unorthodox fingerloop braid, A-fell.  (though it was kind of slentre-like in that it was easiest to go through the middle finger loop on the way to the ring finger loop by holding my hands mostly palm-downwards rather than palms-facing)

For a few young children, I did twisted-loop cords with them.  One slightly older child learned the 7-strand fill-the-gap disk braid.  (I had a pile of disks with me for just that purpose)

A few people already had done fingerloop braiding, so we had fun with 5-loop orthodox braids (square, flat, and split/double), 7-loop orthodox braids (square and flat), 7-loop unorthodox braids, and the 7-loop pigtail braid done as a V-fell braid (load up 4 fingers on one hand and 4 on the other, and the empty little finger grabs the index finger loop of the other hand).  We also did a 4-loop loop-exchange braid, and I tried playing around a bit with various unorthodox 7-loop braids though none turned out so well that I needed to write them down.

As you can see from the above photos, people had fun choosing different colors to see what would happen.  With the unorthodox braids, sometimes the back side (the one that looks interwoven) is more interesting than the front side (the one that looks like Vs).

I also got to spin a bit, on both wheels and spindles.  Someone had some raffia and shared it around so we could all make some cordage (twist one side and fold it over/under the other side).  And as always I had my knitting with me and got a fair amount of knitting done.

It was fun, both the teaching and the hanging out with other people who enjoy playing with fiber.

My weaving area is still unavailable, so I haven't done much else in the way of narrow wares this month, at least not so far.  All the stuff mentioned in my last post is still on my want-to-do list.  We'll see what happens.

One of my feline weaving assistants has passed away.  She was old and it was sudden.  I'll miss her.  Yes, even her deeply non-helpful weaving assistance.