Garments

1. Mitered Square Vest

I choose to use a mitered square technique to create a vest using my
original design as I felt this would best show off the selection of yarns.
My added item is Brown Sheep Lamb's Pride in color Galaxy.

Donna Ferguson-Kingman, AZ

2. Handspun Sweater

I had a blast with this challenge! My supply photo shows an aqua silk scarf with it and a little inset of a large sequin. I originally designed this sweater with the idea of using the scarf as finsihing piece for the neckline. But as I started to needlefelt the scarf I realized that it wanted to be it's own project! So I chose to add the large sequins and make flowers using french knots to adorn the neckline. I'm very happy with the results. I couldn't retake my supply photo, so please try to ignore the lovely scarf!
The main yarn is a lace-weight mohair/wool blend I spun eons ago. I don't do much lace knitting but I had wanted to create a fine yarn and so I had oodles of blue lace weight mohair waiting to be used. The blue was the wrong color for the challenge so I overdyed it aqua. It varies from a green-blue to turquoise to some brighter blues. I used the yarn doubled and tripled. The chartreuse yarn is also hand spun. I had a beautiful Lamb's Pride yarn that had been dyed for me a few years ago. I loved the color and knew it would be perfect for this challenge. But it needed to be thick and thin. So, my sons and I carded the yarn back to a fiber stage and I spun it with some help from my boys into a thick and thin yarn. The remainder is ready-made yarn. I chose to weave the wool locks into the yoke of the garment. I actually used quite a bit of the hot pink silk. I drafted it into strands and held it together with the aqua and the chartreuse yarns in the yoke.
Although I know that this would be a very appropriate entry into the hand-spun category, I'd like to enter this in the garment category.

Amy Lynn - Sylvania, Ohio

3. Garden Tank Top

My entry for the garment division of the 3rd Biennial Fiber Challenge.
My kitty is not a part of my materials used, he's just a ham.
No extra items were used.

I loved the color choices. When I began this girl's tank, the leaves around my house were turning and making a beautiful canvas for my creativity. At first I thought it would be hard to incorporate the hot pink into my design because I thought it would clash. Then, as I walked around my house, I noticed two bushes had turned that exact color of pink. They were beautiful against the background of fallen leaves and the evergreen bushes. I decided that God makes no mistakes in His creation and chose to copy the scene around my house into a tank for a little girl.

Jessica Lockhart - Springdale, AR,

4. Arizona Sun Vest

I am entering the Garment section. I call it Arizona Sun. It's a child's vest.

I chose to use a natural color wool as my one added element. And I knit the mohair along with it. When I knit the zig zag stripes on the bottom of the back, it just felt like mountains and rivers to me, so the blue snowflakes I had planned for the 'sky' just didn't work for me. I put a red, western sun there instead. Once the back was done, it just screamed Arizona to me.

I continued the wavy stripes on one front section and used the pink silk for the heart. On the other front section, I was inspired to use the red ribbon yarn again for the diamond of an argyle. The green and black thick n thin yarn was my choice for the 'X' on the argyle. The locks are above that as a section of fringe. They remind me of Arizona's waterfalls. The blue/green eyelash yarn was repurposed from the abandoned snowflakes to the bind off row on the trim. It's kind of fun and unexpected.

Sharon Baker - Northwood, OH

5. Llama Sweater

I used the materials that you mailed to me and beige llama yarn that a friend gave me.   I wanted to use as much of the llama yarn as possible and then accent the sweater with the yarn that I received from the Northeast Fiber Arts Center.

The two green yarns are knitted together -- the thick n' thin and  the green locks.  

Sue Mraz - Slippery Rock, PA

6. Tropical Vest

This is my first entry-- a garment (actually a vest ...). I
tried to bring out the "tropical" colors of the contest yarns by
adding the bright turquoise. I had so much fun doing it that I took
the leftover stuff and created entry 2 (see Felted Fantasies).

Lori-Nan Kaye - Boynton Beach, FL

7. Daughter's Poncho

This started out as a purse, but my 11 yr old pointedly reminded me that I had promised her a poncho. I have never made a poncho before and it's been a ball. I had to rip it out several times and the dogs stole it once. The silk hankies were so beautiful that I felted them with the wool locks into flowers just to show them off.
I, also, used a red chenille that is not in the photo. I had forgotten that I needed to take a picture of the materials and a friend had an emergency need for red chenille yarn and I gave it to her.

Alice Welch - Jessup, Md

8. Vest


Dana Wood - New Jersey

9. Melton Wool Vest

I used a combination of knit strips combined with fabric strips of Melton wool to create this vest. I needled felted silk caps to the Melton wool strips for the pink squares that repreat themselves on the front and back. Couching yarns provided pattern for other strips  and then hand sewed the strips to the knitting  onto this vest . 
 
I Purchased a kit, took the challenge and without limiting myself to the yarns allowed, by un-plying and replying those singles into different yarns with out leaving the rules of this challenge behind. It able me to develop more design options to use in a creative sense. 

The silk caps were used by needle-felting them onto strips of fabrics, that were then hand sewn to the knitted counterparts of  the design. The buttons were made by using the silk caps on the inside of the button, then wrapping wool strips, followed by yarn.  The  buttons were then coated with fabric glue to produce a firm button that would accept the crochet button loops make from yarn choices.  

I loved the look of the crimp of the locks, tried felting them (not a good outcome) then deciede to just knot the end of  each lock and hand sew that to the backside of the collar. 

Debra Young - MI

10. Embellished Skirt

I would like to enter the "garments" category. I used the lovely yarns from the kit (purchased through you) and added one item of my own: a skirt made from a recycled wool sweater. To create the design on the skirt I needle felted and hand sewed the yarns into the wool skirt.

Nancy Nigh

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