With my health issues taking most of my time and energy lately, I confess my weaving has been…well, I had enough challenges on my plate. So I stuck to the tried and true, the stuff I didn’t have to think about much, that was pretty well ingrained in my thought processes. Sticking to what was easy for me meant that weaving was mostly about the therapy, not about the intellectual challenge.
Re-visiting rayon chenille scarves, I felt I needed to be more challenged. I had kind of burned out of doing the ‘usual’ and started thinking about options, if only to make them more interesting to me.
Since I want to weave the stash down, the first challenge was to see what I could do with what I have on hand. Since some colours are low enough there might not be enough for weft, the first decision was to use some 2/16 cotton for weft. This would do two things…the rayon chenille would only be used for warp and the cotton would make a lighter weight cloth.
The initial prototype scarves were acceptable but a bit predictable. As I started weaving the warps, surface attention was given to the weaving allowing my little grey cells to mull over other options and I came up with a further modification to the stripe sequence I had designed.
This option isn’t easy, in fact it takes quite a lot of concentration to wind. But I was able to do it, which tells me I am continuing on the healing journey since my addled brain was able to not only come up with something decidedly different AND accomplish my objective.
I am not back to where I was, yet, but feel that I am making progress. Thank you for your support and encouragement. It is very much appreciated.
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