I’m like a crow

I’m not necessarily attracted to shiny things, but “Oooo…that’s a cool technique, let me try that.” “Oh look, there’s another one; I should try that.” “Wow, that one’s marvelous; I need to do that.”

And so it goes. I never have/make the time to fully explore one thing before I’m on to the next. You could say I’m easily distracted. Or easily bored. Or unable to focus long enough to master something. Or quite creative. Or just scattered. All would be true.

So here is a finished shot of the three scarves I began here.

I’m very happy with them. So happy that I immediately began winding another multi-colored warp, which I showed you here. I just finished the hard press on those three scarves.

The warp for these scarves is a combination of mercerized cotton, tencel, and a handpainted bamboo-cotton blend. The weft for the two scarves at the top of the photo is an adobe tencel. I used two different treadlings, although the one on the left is pretty subtle. That’s okay. The third scarf, at the bottom, has a sienna tencel weft with some stripes of doubled 20/2 mercerized gold cotton. That gold looked SO bright on the loom that I was afraid to put more of it in that I did. When it’s all finished it’s so toned down by the sienna that I wish I’d inserted more. C’est la vie.

Clearly still not done with this concept, I decided I had to dye some yarn. I need to weave some more larger pieces, so wound roughly 42 ounces of 10/2 cotton into skeins. TEDIOUS! A little over half of it will be warp with the remaining planned for weft. In this photo the yarn is all still wet, but you can see I planned a gemtones mix, a departure from the two previous earthy mixes. Hope it turns out well. 🙂