Category: silk novelty
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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…
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Weaving by Feel
the breast beam shows through this very open cloth – click on the photo to biggify As mentioned previously, this yarn is being woven very open. It is a highly textured silk, a bit stiff and a little coarse feeling, due to the high degree of twist and the torquing that happens as a result…
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All About the Therapy
Two shots of the same shawl. The top photo was taken with the ordinary flash, the bottom using the ‘red-eye’ feature of the flash. The bottom photo is much closer to real life than the top photo. I discovered by accident that using the red-eye feature gets me better representation of reds, especially. This shawl…
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Getting Ready
I’ve spent a couple of quiet days, resting and working on getting some inventory ready to ship for the show in September. There is now a box of hand dyed silk gimp yarn ready to go and this bucket of hand spun is on it’s way. I spent much of the afternoon weighing the skeins,…
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Of Comfort Zones
shawl warp #4 on the loom #4 off the loom I’m down to the last 3 shawl warps done with the silk gimp hand dyed yarns. All three of the last warps are the same sort of blue/green as this one. The problem, if problem it be, is that I’m all out of ‘safe’ colour…
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Something to Look Forward To….
By the time you read this (I’ve scheduled it to be posted Friday evening) I ought to have arrived in Montreal – barring travel challenges. This is, however, an ‘easy’ trip – from here to Vancouver (at 6 am – there otta be a law!) and then from Vancouver to Montreal, arriving there around 5 pm…
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Too Dry!
On this warp I’m using a singles 12 for weft. Unfortunately when the humidity drops below 50% linen gets a bit wire-y and unco-operative. At the moment we are have a cold snap and the relative humidity is currently at 45% (I know, I know, laugh now all you desert dwellers!) In order to make…