Category: shawls
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Orange!
The colours in this photo are pretty true to life on my monitor. The warp is a coral and kind of brick red, the weft a sort of pumpkin orange with a fairly bright yellow. Not too much yellow because a little yellow goes a long way. Let me be perfectly clear. Orange appears in…
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Unsure
Sometimes you just don’t know what you are going to get until you start weaving. So it was with this yarn as weft. In the skein and on the cone it wasn’t particularly appealing to the eye. The pale areas were so very pale in comparison to the darker it looks quite jarring. But I…
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Another Bite
Officially at the half way point as I begin to set up warp #9 on the great stash busting count down from 18. This is the only blue warp in the run, which is a pity because I know I could sell a lot more than three blue shawls. But the point of the exercise…
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Another Bite
Officially at the half way point as I begin to set up warp #9 on the great stash busting count down from 18. This is the only blue warp in the run, which is a pity because I know I could sell a lot more than three blue shawls. But the point of the exercise…
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One Bite
Again, not quite accurate to life…the orange is much brighter, more like the orange in the shuttle. This is, in the count down from #18, warp #10. When I finish weaving this warp I will be half way through the shawl warps. And that much closer to recovery. The exercises the physio gave me are…
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Pretty in Pink
The warp on the loom is actually a darker magenta. I have three shades of magenta to use as weft; this is the darkest of the three. The other two will look more like this does in the photo. In the background are more warps waiting their turn. There is just one more warp to…
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Creative Constraints
One of the purposes of this shawl run – other than to increase my inventory of shawls, of course – is to use up this textured silk yarn. Each warp takes four cones (four oz each), then each shawl takes one cone for weft. I was getting down to the dregs when I wound this…
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Count Down
Colour isn’t accurate as it looks more pink than it really is. The warp is a deep scarlet red, the weft a darker, browner red. It looks very magenta on the bobbin in the shuttle. I’ve woven enough warps now, which are in various stages of ‘finishing’ that it’s getting harder to keep track of…
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Spools not Fools
I’ve never really liked April Fool’s pranks, so April Spools suits me much better. Bobbins wound for the last of the shawls on the Deep Purple Haze warp, now woven. Tomorrow I will dress the loom with the next warp, #6. Or maybe I should be counting down? Currently reading Endangered by C. J. Box
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Deep Purple Haze
Silly me – I miscounted how many warps there are (or are going to be – I still haven’t finished winding them all) and there are only 18, not 20. I’m actually happy about that. I’d decided that, in the spirit of recovery, I would weave all of these warps before I tried something a…