Category: rayon chenille
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Rayon Chenille
There is a yarn available to handweavers called ‘chenille’. It comes in different fibre contents – acrylic, cotton and rayon – even silk – and rayon chenille has become a staple for many handweavers. Acrylic chenille is very…stiff…mostly, and can feel very prickly. I have woven with it and it just doesn’t compare to rayon…
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Sudden Pivot
“Know when to hold ’em, know when to fold ’em” Kenny Rogers sang. Well, yesterday I folded. I’d put a rayon chenille warp on the Fanny intending to begin weaving down that portion of my stash but the warp was 1300 yards/pound, not my ‘usual’ 1450 and…change one thing… It was awful. Literally awful.…
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Comfort Zone
One of the benefits of working only from my stash is that I have to be bolder in my colour choices. Rayon chenille has been a wonderful yarn to force myself out of my comfort zone of colours that I prefer to work with. When I’m doing a scarf series using it, I tend to…
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And Still Not Perfect
If you look really closely, over there on the right you might be able to see that four of the ends are not in the lease sticks. I was distracted today and nearly at the end of rough sleying, I took two pairs out of order. This meant they were ‘crossed’ and when it came…
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Dribs and Drabs
With inventory to make and stash to use up, I designed a new scarf to use some of my rayon chenille stash. So far it’s been a qualified success. These three shelves show the dribs and drabs of some of the solids that are left. What I’m not showing you is the other shelves that…
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Showing Up
I’m over half way through this bin of rayon chenille scarves, but still hours of work to do yet. Today Doug is working on installing a new light in the laundry room and, for safety’s sake, the computer that runs my loom needed to be shut down. Ergo, I could not weave. While it was…
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Deadline: Critical
Someone asked me recently how I keep track of what needs doing when. As usual, there’s not really an easy – or short – answer to that. I keep calendars where I note events coming up. Since I parse that information best by seeing it in print, I have several ‘paper’ calendars, plus one erasable…
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Revving Up
One of the things I did last year (maybe the year before!) was wind a bunch of rayon chenille scarf warps. I managed to weave off a few of them, but there were seven warps, sitting in their boxes waiting, patiently. In an effort to reduce rubble, I decided to weave them off. So far,…
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Pushing Limits
One of the things I like about working in series is that as I work through colour options, I find myself becoming more bold in the colours I put together. While this warp was wound a long time ago, it is an example of what happens when I start to run out of colours in…
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Never ending
Just cut a blue/black chenille warp off the loom with two more scarves woven. Unfortunately weaving chenille scarves is beginning to feel like a never ending story. The next warp – black and grey – is ready to be rough sleyed, six more warps are wound, ready to go, the next colour is at the…